It’ll feel inevitable, but only in hindsight.
So now begins the reading of the tea leaves and the careful scrutiny of every Republican senator’s statements (or silence). Will Republicans finally break with Trump? We may not know until it happens. But be forewarned — if it does happen, it will likely take us by surprise. After all, political science has shown us that big political changes often come suddenly, after long periods of stasis. Looking back, it seems like of course the Soviet Union was bound to collapse. But up until the moment it did — and remember, it fell all at once — almost nobody predicted it.
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SAD STATE OF DON'T CARES (October 3)
(with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II)
What's the use of wondrin'
why he's good at bein' bad
or if that thing upon his head is hair
Oh, what's the use of wondrin'
if he's good — he's not? — so SAD!
he's our fella, so we love him
it's not as if we cared
about the endin'
which will, no doubt, be bad
if we had sense — or souls — we'd run away
but this is no conundrum
for although the endin's bad
he's our fella, so we love him
there's nothin' more to say
Somethin' made him the way that he is
things we dast not dis-cuss
and somethin' gave him the things that are his
one of those things is us,
ex-plic-it a-com-pli-ces
which some once thought was mad
but thanks to him WE NOW OWN THE COURTS!
so it does not behoove us
to note the Em-per-or's unclad
he's our Stanley, we're his Stella
and so we love his warts
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