Daily KOS: Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Eyes wide open

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We begin today with George T. Conway III writing for The Atlantic that Americans should have known about the man they elected this past Tuesday night.

We knew, and have known, for years. Every American knew, or should have known. The man elected president last night is a depraved and brazen pathological liar, a shameless con man, a sociopathic criminal, a man who has no moral or social conscience, empathy, or remorse. He has no respect for the Constitution and laws he will swear to uphold, and on top of all that, he exhibits emotional and cognitive deficiencies that seem to be intensifying, and that will only make his turpitude worse. He represents everything we should aspire not to be, and everything we should teach our children not to emulate. The only hope is that he’s utterly incompetent, and even that is a double-edged sword, because his incompetence often can do as much as harm as his malevolence. His government will be filled with corrupt grifters, spiteful maniacs, and morally bankrupt sycophants, who will follow in his example and carry his directives out, because that’s who they are and want to be.

I say all of this not in anger, but in deep and profound sorrow. For centuries, the United States has been a beacon of democracy and reasoned self-government, in part because the Framers understood the dangers of demagogues and saw fit to construct a system with safeguards to keep such men from undermining it, and because our people and their leaders, out of respect for the common good and the people of this country, adhered to its rules and norms. The system was never perfect, but it inched toward its own betterment, albeit in fits and starts. But in the end, the system the Framers set up—and indeed, all constitutional regimes, however well designed—cannot protect a free people from themselves.

Conway is laying it on too thick in that second paragraph for my tastes but his ultimate thesis is right. A majority of Americans should have known better and probably did but made the choice that they made.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/7/2283771/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Eyes-wide-open

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I think that the statement 'protect a free people from themselves' should really mean (in this particular case) that

the bullies have won. The djts of the US have won.

The only way I have handled bullies is to stand up to them. Always.

And the 'a free people'? Are most of these people voting for tRUMP free really? No, they are cultists.

Trapped in a self-indulging orgy of political violence against others.