Worrying is overrated, generally useless, and something we choose to succumb to. One can choose to not be overly rattled by all this. Concerned, vigilant, eyes open, sure, but not paralyzed and defeated. I literally don’t know why Dems, when threatened or attacked, don’t counter it IMMEDIATELY with an even more aggressive counterattack. Instead, we gaze at our navels and go through this ONOEZ he so mean process. Turn on MSNBC any night at any time, and it’s almost always sound outraged and worried reaction to something Trump said or did INSTEAD of a discussion of what to do about it.
When Dems are guests on these shows and are asked what their response is to the latest Trump outrage, it’s usually some anodyne defeatist bullshit about how they hope that Trump comes to his senses and listens to his FUCKING NON-EXISTENT better angels. DAFUK?!? Are they stupid, in denial or cowards? He’s the fucking devil. You shoot the devil in the head and then you shoot him again. In real-world terms, what this means is that you go after Trump by every means you have, like not dithering and waiting fucking 3 years to go through with a half-assed impeachment that was over 5 seconds after it started. For 40 years Dems have been playing battered wife and I’m fucking tired of it.
So no, I will NOT play that role, thank you. When you’re being mugged, you don’t think about how not to anger your mugger or what terrible parents they had and whether there’s any good in them. You find a rock and bash his fucking head in till he’s dead. And then you find a gun and shoot him.