So I agree with everything you're saying about Republicans and Trump voters, but can't get a read on what you're saying about Dems. For a second I thought you were taking the stance that they were too centrist (let them "heal the divided nation"), but that bit about Michelle Obama being "awesome" threw me off. I could be bringing my baggage to the table here, since she's been busy whitewashing one ex-president who brought hell to my friends and family and remained supportive of someone who did a lot of the same (and don't even get me started on Obama's support of El Sisi and the regime in Bahrain in the "Arab Spring"). But as someone who is very much not American but whose life is tossed around by 72 million morons who have no issue with everything the Trump administration has done I hope that conscientious people—and I've been reading this blog sporadically for about a decade, I think, and consider you as such—push forward instead of returning to the collective post-Iraq War apathy it felt like the US had fallen into during the Obama administration.

I mean, we need, we need, American citizens to hold the government to account. Our lives depend on it. And that includes Michelle Obama. What does whitewashing Bush achieve?

Or maybe that's what you're saying and I've misread and I'm underslept and tired (the elections here led to a flipping battle).

I do agree on the rest, though. Forget decency. The day they started yanking kids away from their parents was the day the Trump administration should have died. The day it became apparent Trump was a few hundred million in the hole was the day he should have lost all 50 states. The dismantling of the USPS. The refusal to hold press briefings. His campaign suggesting the Rocky photoshop wasn't real. Trump bombing Yemen more than any President before. It goes on.

The scary thing isn't Trump. It's the suave, charming little creep he's inspired, that weird-ass Plot Against America Charles Lindbergh-like savant of a demagogue who'll shoot for the White House next. We gotta push forward. Or, well, back against them.