Ok. I was mostly objecting to you giving Trump any credit for thinking up the policy. McConnell has been executing it, actually and his blocking of a vote on Garland is one of the biggest most brazen, norm violating power grabs in American history. So we are essentially in agreement. Trump’s main contribution has been, his vanity and vindictiveness and transparent self protection gleefulness in appointing the people that The Federalist Society has hand picked. Kavanaugh was the worst nominee ever, in my lifetime, and it was made by Trump because he thinks it will protect him and his family, given the new Justice’s craven partisan career and his manifestly disqualifying table pounding rant at the Blasey Ford matter hearing.
The GOP has actually become the Afrikaaner Party of the USA. No procedural or crooked maneuver is beneath them. They, including Trump, and Reagan before him, have embraced this notion that mediocre and dumb white men like Trump and Steven King, somehow represent the greatness of Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and Winston Churchill I guess, and therefore just deserve to continue running the US and ignoring science and cashing in on oil and Wall St graft.
So I dont disagree with you. I just think it is the GOP and FOX and the Right’s agenda. And Trump is just along for the ride, fucking TV fake businessman and politician that he is.