“I don’t have a set of prescriptions to share with you. This post is more aimed at framing the question. The American president is fundamentally an administrator of the federal government, a thing owned by the American people and authorized and shaped by their representatives in Congress. Winning an election is fundamentally being hired to run it for four years. It’s not a property deed. The president doesn’t own the federal government. It’s not his. But when Donald Trump decided that it … well, it actually was his, his property, a thing he could do anything he wanted with … it turned out he mostly could. They say bad facts make bad laws. You could similarly say that bad presidents make bad reforms. Or they can. But Donald Trump won’t be the last strongman wannabe. So we have 30 months to figure out how to put this degenerate, corrupt genie of authoritarian presidency back in its bottle.”
Bringing the Trump-Corrupted Presidency to Heel
We will de-Trump America when he is gone. Tearing down all the monuments, taking his name off places it never should have been, unfucking the gaudy vomit he has put all over the White House will be easy and relatively fast.
All the other stuff he has destroyed is going to take the rest of my life to rebuild. The open corruption, lying during confirmations, and naked political actors in SCOTUS, all the relationships with America’s 20th century allies, the empowering and protection of the Epstein Class… it’s a lot. And I we haven’t even mentioned the DOGE destruction.
The rest of my life, at least, and I do know one thing: if we can do it, we can’t just roll it back to 2015. We have to rebuild everything, and we have to punish the absolute fuck out of this entire criminal organization. I’m talking prison for life, nationalizing of assets. We need to ask ourselves, “What would John Brown or Sherman do?”
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