Slate: Trump Is No Longer the Problem. His Army of Followers Is.

After four interminable years of feeling like turkeys who’d been stuffed full with Donald Trump—his voice in our ears, his tweets waking us, his erratic moods and feuds dominating all that passed as political news—we find ourselves now in this strange interregnum. Having spent years training ourselves to ignore that which threatened to consume us, we are faced with the fact that even his vanquished ghost will not leave. Yes, Donald Trump has lost the election (hasty reframe: Joe Biden has won the election!) No, there is nothing Rudy Giuliani can do to change that outcome in the courts (hasty reframe: The courts have batted down almost every single lawsuit Rudy has filed!). And yes, in a few short weeks we will mercifully never, ever, need to have this man occupy all of this space in our brains again.

But for now, how much space in our brains should he continue to take up? How do we deal with an artlessly attempted coup that is formidable yet somehow not literal? Can we ignore him into oblivion—a move that hasn’t worked yet over the course of five years? How are we back to the same debate about whether this is a catastrophe for democracy or a nothing? And does the power to make that decision rest with us in the first place?

After all, this long national nightmare is meant to be over. Right? Right? So why is it still playing, in its endless variations, on a loop? For starters, we have spent the past four years in an abusive relationship with this man, and that doesn’t simply end. One hesitates to proffer the analogy, but as his niece, Mary Trump, has observed, the most dangerous time in any abusive relationship comes when the victim attempts to leave. One of the reasons it is not quite possible to exhale, more than two weeks after the election has ended, is because Donald Trump refuses to concede. That’s his problem. But in the meantime, do we really have to watch him rage and tweet, bouncing off the walls of the White House in a fury, and expending whatever capital that remains to him playing with the troops, and firing everyone who brings a lick of stability to the current, rather perilous situation, and working fiendishly to disadvantage Biden’s transition team? Having lost in the courts, his new work evidently lies in emboldening obscure local election boards to nullify their voting tallies, calling them on the phone to exert pressure, inviting them to the White House. That means that even postelection we are still stress monkeys. He still has eight weeks remaining in which to break things and burn things down.

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not that we didn't know, but DJT is living inside a lot of heads rent-free for the last 4 years. Not his fault, the way I see it.

It's not the sleeping giant that these assholes have to worry about.

It's the highly-motivated and highly-armed 1% of this nation that have been waiting for this shit to froth up to the surface with great intent for the past decade or two.

They have no clue who they're dealing with.

To me, Trump is behaving like 5 year-old kid.

He simply can't accept things have to change.

No, his followers are convinced in this false conspiracy theory.

Just like he won in 2016. Than he got lucky and was batter.

Now he has lost and have to accept it.

we cant have a house divided so...

bye trump supporters aka radical right wing that plants car bombs and calls it a civil war

God did not choose Biden, The hysterical far left media chose Biden. They live in a fantasy and they continuously support the fake media's charade of the day. Their biased and misleading narratives used to promote and publicize their political point of views are failing. They have always failed! If Troy Trainer, the US Federal Election Commission Chairman, if Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell says the 2020 US election is illegitimate due to widespread fraud than that is what the courts will have to determine. Not the hysterical far left media who will not publish and spin the facts and truth.

I personally don't want society to be bad, I want it to be more advanced but it's hard to achieve when everyone is against you and don't see you true potential.

If God DIDN'T want Biden to be president he wouldn't be.

I do believe most if not all of Trump's followers are against endless wars that take away from developing our potential. We could do so much more for the country and the citizenry with all the money that goes to waste on them.
Big Pharma hurts the medical welfare of people, it doesn't help us. Donald Trump was changing that, we personally would be greatly benefitted as would everyone who needs insulin for example.

Neocons and warmongers, starting with the amoral and greedy Clintons ruined this country. It went off the rails when it went for Empire, raiding and dismantling nations and stealing their wealth, and that's what they are now trying to do to us. They're global pirates.

Like massive voter fraud?

God did not choose anyone because in reality God doesn't even exist just like Jesus.

It's just a DOGMA your head is filled in.

To me, Trump is behaving like 5 year-old kid.

He simply can't accept things have to change.

To me, Trump is behaving like 5 year-old kid.

He simply can't accept things have to change.

To me, Trump is behaving like 5 year-old kid.

He simply can't accept things have to change.

1. Ending endless wars

2. Bringing back some industry and self-sufficiency

are the two biggest issues that he can address, and has addressed.

One thing this COVID business should have made clear, but didn't really seem to, is how much pharmaceutical mfg takes place overseas. Like almost all of it.

We need to make our own medicine, and we need to manufacture more of our own stuff. I don't know why this shouldn't be more obvious.

Take a gander at the author, Dahlia Lithwick:
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Biden will never be my President, and I'm ready to resist in Occupied America.

I don't know Amish maybe

She's pretty homely looking.

After four interminable years of feeling like turkeys who’d been stuffed full with Donald Trump—his voice in our ears, his tweets waking us, his erratic moods and feuds dominating all that passed as political news—we find ourselves now in this strange interregnum. Having spent years training ourselves to ignore that which threatened to consume us, we are faced with the fact that even his vanquished ghost will not leave. Yes, Donald Trump has lost the election (hasty reframe: Joe Biden has won the election!) No, there is nothing Rudy Giuliani can do to change that outcome in the courts (hasty reframe: The courts have batted down almost every single lawsuit Rudy has filed!). And yes, in a few short weeks we will mercifully never, ever, need to have this man occupy all of this space in our brains again.

But for now, how much space in our brains should he continue to take up? How do we deal with an artlessly attempted coup that is formidable yet somehow not literal? Can we ignore him into oblivion—a move that hasn’t worked yet over the course of five years? How are we back to the same debate about whether this is a catastrophe for democracy or a nothing? And does the power to make that decision rest with us in the first place?

After all, this long national nightmare is meant to be over. Right? Right? So why is it still playing, in its endless variations, on a loop? For starters, we have spent the past four years in an abusive relationship with this man, and that doesn’t simply end. One hesitates to proffer the analogy, but as his niece, Mary Trump, has observed, the most dangerous time in any abusive relationship comes when the victim attempts to leave. One of the reasons it is not quite possible to exhale, more than two weeks after the election has ended, is because Donald Trump refuses to concede. That’s his problem. But in the meantime, do we really have to watch him rage and tweet, bouncing off the walls of the White House in a fury, and expending whatever capital that remains to him playing with the troops, and firing everyone who brings a lick of stability to the current, rather perilous situation, and working fiendishly to disadvantage Biden’s transition team? Having lost in the courts, his new work evidently lies in emboldening obscure local election boards to nullify their voting tallies, calling them on the phone to exert pressure, inviting them to the White House. That means that even postelection we are still stress monkeys. He still has eight weeks remaining in which to break things and burn things down.

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To me, Trump is behaving like 5 year-old kid.

He simply can't accept things have to change.

God did not choose Biden, The hysterical far left media chose Biden. They live in a fantasy and they continuously support the fake media's charade of the day. Their biased and misleading narratives used to promote and publicize their political point of views are failing. They have always failed! If Troy Trainer, the US Federal Election Commission Chairman, if Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell says the 2020 US election is illegitimate due to widespread fraud than that is what the courts will have to determine. Not the hysterical far left media who will not publish and spin the facts and truth.

When this is all done, they will come for us. My powder is dry and I'm ready for it.

No, his followers are convinced in this false conspiracy theory.

Just like he won in 2016. Than he got lucky and was batter.

Now he has lost and have to accept it.

She's pretty homely looking.

After four interminable years of feeling like turkeys who’d been stuffed full with Donald Trump—his voice in our ears, his tweets waking us, his erratic moods and feuds dominating all that passed as political news—we find ourselves now in this strange interregnum. Having spent years training ourselves to ignore that which threatened to consume us, we are faced with the fact that even his vanquished ghost will not leave. Yes, Donald Trump has lost the election (hasty reframe: Joe Biden has won the election!) No, there is nothing Rudy Giuliani can do to change that outcome in the courts (hasty reframe: The courts have batted down almost every single lawsuit Rudy has filed!). And yes, in a few short weeks we will mercifully never, ever, need to have this man occupy all of this space in our brains again.

But for now, how much space in our brains should he continue to take up? How do we deal with an artlessly attempted coup that is formidable yet somehow not literal? Can we ignore him into oblivion—a move that hasn’t worked yet over the course of five years? How are we back to the same debate about whether this is a catastrophe for democracy or a nothing? And does the power to make that decision rest with us in the first place?

After all, this long national nightmare is meant to be over. Right? Right? So why is it still playing, in its endless variations, on a loop? For starters, we have spent the past four years in an abusive relationship with this man, and that doesn’t simply end. One hesitates to proffer the analogy, but as his niece, Mary Trump, has observed, the most dangerous time in any abusive relationship comes when the victim attempts to leave. One of the reasons it is not quite possible to exhale, more than two weeks after the election has ended, is because Donald Trump refuses to concede. That’s his problem. But in the meantime, do we really have to watch him rage and tweet, bouncing off the walls of the White House in a fury, and expending whatever capital that remains to him playing with the troops, and firing everyone who brings a lick of stability to the current, rather perilous situation, and working fiendishly to disadvantage Biden’s transition team? Having lost in the courts, his new work evidently lies in emboldening obscure local election boards to nullify their voting tallies, calling them on the phone to exert pressure, inviting them to the White House. That means that even postelection we are still stress monkeys. He still has eight weeks remaining in which to break things and burn things down.

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