My first real post on Scenes from a Slow Civil War, my new substack, a close read of Trump's post-conviction speech in view of his mutation in his own mind from Rambo to Scarface and now into horror movies. jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/escalator-...
I’m less concerned now after the conviction.
Have heard a few die hard R’s interviewed.
“ bridge too far”.
Those few are not voting for a convicted felon.
I am more concerned about the voices on the right in our Congress.
They are off the rails.
I wouldn't make to much of any response right now. Check back in a month, two months. Remember all that can change, and remember that Trump is locked in as the GOP candidate. As long as he's on that ballot, he can win, or worse.
I am. TBH, and I hate to say this, but it still functions for me a lot better than here. Not much engagement here, & more likely to get trolled by know-nothings who think they're left and think I'm not. That's what drove me off, when I got told Edward Said was a Zionist shill.
Said's famous "victims of victims" quote. To acknowledge that Jews were ever in any way victims, in the minds of some with a pretty shallow knowledge of Palestinian or Jewish history, makes one of the greatest Palestinian intellectuals a "Zionist," a term they also don't understand.
