Fair enough.

by OGerry , Maine wilderness, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 14:12 (2836 days ago) @ Mike (bart)

Optional wars, torture, signature drone strikes, abortion, structural poverty...these are not of an entirely different species of evil compared to Trump holding immigrant hostages, at least to me. But I see now how they may be to you.

I know Godwin has cropdusted this board good and proper, but, to riff off Occam, I won't credit to malice what can be as easily explained by incompetence or stoopidity. We have elected a spoiled, unintelligent child President. He has the nuke codes and the executive order pen. He is not a stable evil genious. There is no Kristallnacht, no ovens in the interment camps, and no final solution. Zero tolerance sounded alpha dog to him, and it never occurred to him what that might actually look like in practice.

It's true that he's let actual Nazis fondle the levers of power, so I understand this isn't just the Bushitler bullshit one would see from the left. But it's not unrelated, either.