[mindslight]

By throwing out the most outlandish inflammatory shit, the media gushes over it ("no such thing as bad press"), regular people who just want straightforward stability freak out about it, an army of edgelord simps go to work arguing how such a plan is straightforwardly reasonable xor is actually some 4d chess move, and ultimately the entire memetic sphere is filled with polarized spectator-sport trash - drowning out and neutralizing reasoned criticism of what is actually happening.

More than the inevitable national tragedies that will be openly shirked and just used as opportunities to divide, more than the overt destruction and corporate coup his cadre of anti-American enablers have had four years to plan, what I am really dreading is going back to being continually gaslit that any of it makes sense as a coherent political perspective beyond mere postmodern nihilism.