Triumph of the ill

America is, indeed, going back. Not to a time of greatness. But to a time of darkness.

America is, indeed, going back. Not to a time of greatness. But to a time of darkness.

The bullies have won. The cheaters have won. The polluters have won. The criminals have won. The oligarchs have won. The predators have won. 

The people, even though half the country won’t realize it for a while, have lost.

This time, Trump’s incompetence, laziness and stupidity won’t save us. 

He’ll be surrounded by people eager to execute his most fascistic and vengeful plans.

The best we can possibly hope for over the next four years is that Trump, now immune from prosecution, will be driven more by a narcissistic need to be loved than by a psychopathic urge to punish. 

The good news for Dear Leader: He doesn’t have to do much.

• The booming, low-inflation Biden economy that Fox News viewers have been trained to hate could simply be rebranded as “the best economy in the history of our country” under Trump. 
• The manufacturing investment that Biden has initiated through the CHIPs Act could simply become the "Donald J. Trump Very Powerful Manufacturing Supercycle."
• The infrastructure projects that Biden has funded could all be finished but with Trump's name slapped on to keep him happy.
• The mass deportation plan could be pared back from 20 million to a number that at least doesn’t require concentration camps.

There's a chance the tariffs won't be tooooo bad. And that Elon won't completely crash the economy.

The Christo-fascists and the Tech-fascists will have their demands, of course.

The war on women and the “war on woke” will continue. There will be many new victims whose lives will be lost and whose futures will be ruined.

Putin will want at least a chunk of Ukraine.

Young people who may have hoped to inherit a livable planet will have to settle for competing for Musk lottery tickets to win a future trip to Mars.

Everything that can be stolen will be stolen.

Everything that can be corrupted will be corrupted.

Things will be bad.

The technology that we’re told is “keeping us safe” will actually be used to keep us in our place.

Four years from now, the world will look very different—and be on a tech-driven trajectory that cannot be stopped.

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