What to Expect Over the Next Four Years

I’m sure most readers agree with the author of the meme here.

There are two other major ingredients that I would add to what we can expect to experiece:

Arrogance, i.e., an unfounded confidence in the correctness of Trump’s observations.  This is part of what it means to be a cult leader: your viewpoints are unassailable.

Wanton cruelty.  If you’re a wealthy Republican who’s been consistently loyal to Trump, you can expect smooth sailing.  Everybody else: journalists, congressional Democrats, the working class, political activists, humanitarians, students, asylum seekers, women, LGBTQs, people of color, non-Christians, is going to live under pressure.

Trump has been quite clear over the last few years that, if he were to be re-elected, he will exact revenge against all the people who stood against him.

Being a little guy with very low visibility, I don’t worry about this.  But think about  people like Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci.

What exactly did Dr. Fauci do to earn him the biting hatred of about half of all Americans?  He wouldn’t go along with Trump’s anti-scientific methods for dealing with the pandemic.

Liz Cheney famously said, “You can be loyal to the Constitution, or you can be loyal to Trump, but you can’t be loyal to both.”  Lord only knows that Trump and the MAGA Republicans have planned for this brave woman.