“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. To render us again one people, acting as one nation, should be the object of every man really a patriot.” — Thomas Jefferson
People are baffled. Why are Trump and his Republicans so intent on gutting our government, destroying our alliances and reputation around the world, and screwing working-class people while transferring over $50 trillion from them to the morbidly rich?
Historian Kevin M. Kruse captured the zeitgeist brilliantly, reflecting widespread public bewilderment when he posted over on BlueSky:
“We’ve had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuck