This morning someone emailed me about how disastrous this all is — and we were still only three days in! So this morning I replied with the following email, probably to maintain my sanity as much as anything else:
My take is that it’s going to be just two years of idiocy before this nonsense ends. The Republicans barely have a majority in the House, which is way short of what they would need to stop a filibuster, so they can’t ram through anything too destructive.
The executive orders that are in direct defiance of settled law and the Constitution probably won’t make it through even this supreme court, but we will see.
Once voters feel the pain in their pocketbooks of not being able to get goods and services and deliveries and products that they have come to take for granted, the Republicans just won’t have the votes to retain a majority in 2026.
The Creep doesn’t have any skills other than bullying people into buying snake oil, so when it all starts coming apart, he’s not going to be able to do anything about it.
Meanwhile, we’re all just going to have to watch this insane clown show play out.