...pretty much everything they believe is complete BS? On some level it has to be difficult to maintain all of these stances that run completely counter to basic verifiable evidence.
But this second Turnip Administration is definitely making it hard on them. The first was marked by a number of people in the inner circle that actually did know what they were doing and valued the Constitution and the institutions of government. They made the Abominable Orange Man seem much more normal than he actually is. The new Administration has none of those type of people--and it is showing. Add to that a completely compliant Supreme Court and far fewer Republicans in Congress that are not onboard with all of the insanity, and you leave far fewer places for the craziness to hide--so it's all out in the open this time.
End the war in Ukraine on day one? Nope. End the Gaza conflict with a phone call? Nope. Kick out millions of immigrant rapists and murderers? Nope. End America's involvement in foreign wars? Obviously nope. Magically bring down prices on everyday items and "the groceries"? Nope. Make IVF free for everyone? Nope. Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? Nope. Reduce the deficit and national debt? Huge nope. Bring back American manufacturing? Nope. Prosecute the "Biden crime family"? Nope. Expose the global-elite pedophile ring and clandestine adrenochrome factories through the Epstein "files"? A big slap in the nope.
Sure, they are getting a lot of the culture war red meat they always wanted, but so much of that is falling flat just as any childish fantasy is want to do. It turns out measles vaccines are actually effective. It looks like maybe destroying FEMA and the Department of Education aren't such a great idea after all. Those tariffs that promised to bring in so much money from foreign countries that we could eliminate the income tax altogether are actually looking more like a sales tax on the American consumer every day. It turns out that most immigrants are actually hard-working people here to make a better life for themselves and their family and actually contribute more than they take from the country. Nobody thought that just a few months in their favorite Mexican restaurant would be short-staffed. Was that busboy really an international drug kingpin? Who knew? And when will I be able to make a lowball bid for a building on Harvard's shuttered campus?
All the winning gets really exhausting....
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