Look, yes, plenty of normie libs are outraged all the time. In fact, I think the aggregating avalanche of outrageous acts is destroying the mental health of my friends and family members who pay attention to the news. I'm not talking about them.
I'm talking about America as a nation, as a common polity who shares certain values. We have degraded our collective capacity to be outraged by the sheer cascade of corruption that has emanated from Trump since he shambled onto the national stage.
The exercise of "imagine of Obama did that" or "imagine if a Democrat did that" has lost all significance. As Richardson explains, we have had a series of scandals in the past three weeks that would have been administration ending for any other person. There has been:
- The Signal Scandal
- The disappearance of Kilmer Abrego Garcia into an El Salvadoran prison without due process, and the administration refusing to bring him back, despite court orders to the contrary.
- Trump's tariff disaster as a policy
- Trump's tariff incoherence as a likely avenue for insider trading.
- Trump's indifference to the chaos that he has brought to the global economy while he golfs and pals around at his garish resort.
- Trump sending his attack dogs after two former officials for the official crime of opposing Trump.
Any one of these atrocities to good governance would be blaring headlines at any other time. Instead, today it's tariffs as we await tomorrow's markets and the bond market especially. Tomorrow, it could be something else horrifying.
This is the problem when half of America is so woefully uninformed about the actual merits of just good, solid, competent government. This is the problem when they see politics as the latest installment of reality TV.
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