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I want to make this an Open Diary for your thoughts, Vichy America? #with Poll [1]
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Date: 2025-01-31
Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America
At the dawn of the second Trump presidency, defiance has given way to compliance. While Donald Trump has rapidly and ruthlessly thrown the federal government into unprecedented chaos, the leaders of the Democratic party have offered up little more than limp banalities and platitudes. “Presidents come and presidents go. Through it all. God is still on the throne,” tweeted the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, at the end of Trump’s first week in office. Asked who was leading the caucus’s pushback, the Senate minority whip, Dick Durbin, told Semafor on 23 January: “I can’t answer that. Give us a little time.” Another senator said, “We’re obviously in a bit of disarray,” though Senate Democrats have arrayed themselves enough to provide bipartisan support for a number of Trump’s cabinet appointees.
“God is still on the throne”: WTF are they praying for a divine intervention?
“Give us time”: ???? Tick tock the mouse is dead? OMG, the impossible happened?
As usual, I suggest reading the whole piece, but I will add the final paragraph
The idea that the racism, bigotry, corruption, authoritarianism and cowardice that plague US politics today are somehow French as opposed to dyed-in-the-wool American? That sounds a bit Vichy, doesn’t it?
A penny for your thoughts, scrap that, just your thoughts
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