Thread by @frodofied

Three years ago today most of the world was in a state of shocked mourning. It was like a living nightmare. To me it felt like we had entered another realitiy's timeline, while some other had taken ours. There @HillaryClinton would be taking the oath of office.

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Instead, in this crazy alternative timeline everything was upside down. I would tell people it felt as though from November 8, 2016 every single thing that happened suggested we were now on an opposite day loop.

To be honest, that feeling has never subsided.

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For Americans anywhere politically left of Genghis Khan, it felt almost Shakepearian. A triple tragedy. So much loss.

Many of us knew well before that moment that Donald Trump had stolen the election.

But he had stolen more than that. He had stolen history too.

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He had stolen our nation's first woman President. We were to learn he would be stealing the legacy of man who was leaving office that day.

That loss. @BarackObama and @MichelleObama. We were losing them too.

Hillary Clinton.

Barack Obama.

The best of the best.

But the world's eyes were as trained on Hillary that day as they were her former rival who had stolen her job.

It felt almost macabre. And it felt wrong. I will never forget the support @MichelleObama gave @HillaryClinton that day.

It was not the first time, nor the last.

The man that took the oath that day turned out to be as bad, and, in many ways, worse than most of us had believed.

It still cuts deeply that people like @SusanSarandon had the fucking audacity to claim Clinton would be worse. What a grotesque lie.

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That so many in the media promoted that same view was malpractice. And it has yet to be acknowledged, explained, or apologized for by any of the worst offenders.

That was a lie you could not even sell to some Republicans, who voted with & for America, for @HillaryClinton.

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Any hope that the man who had stolen the Presidency would rise up to meet the challenge and the history of the Office were obliterated that day. The poisonous speech he delivered was a toxic blend of xenophobia, racism, and recidivism.

The nightmare was real.

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(I apologize, the first tweet in this thread begins "Three years ago..." when obviously it should read "Two years ago...)

He had lied terribly every single day of the campaign and he would start his illegitimate term with a heap of lies.

Like about crowd size.

Anyone who knew anything about international political history was quaking in their boots when Trump would claim to have had the biggest inaugural crowd ever. It was not only a lie, it was an obvious lie. It was pure gas lighting.

It was the kind of lie dictators tell.

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From day one of his illegitimate presidency through this mornung, Donald Trump has served three masters and none of them have been this nation nor its citizens: the wealthy, his own ego, and, of course, Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia.

No, Trump did not rise up to meet the challenge of the Office. He instead pulled the office down to him.

It is a stain that I doubt will ever be erased.

Trump's shutdown of the United States government is just the latest attempt by him and Republicans to destroy America.

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It's part of a greater plan to leave America in tatters and ripe for the kinds of corruption, authoritarianism, and lawlessness that allows men like himself and Putin to thrive, unfettered.

He is a man who does not care about legacy, nor about history.

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He does not really even care about legitimacy. He holds the power now and he will wield it mercilessly.

At this point Trump legitimately wants America to fail and its people to suffer widely.

We have committed the greatest sin. We did not love him.

We never loved him.

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Trump rewards sycophants and tries to destroy those he believes to be rivals or sees as unwanted or unworthy. It's a clear pattern in his personal history and now his presidency.

The most dishonest, unethical, treasonous, racist, misogynist man imaginable still leads us.

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Make no mistake, not even his wall is about principles.

Humanitarian crisis?

This extraordinary exercise in gaslighting is diabolical. Trying to convince us that xenophobia is actually altruism is Dictatorship 101.

Puerto Rico is a humanitarian crisis, but a brown one.

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No, Trump's wall is meant to be a monument to white supremacy. The ultimate expression of racial animosity. If built, it will become a tourist destination for racists everywhere, their own dark version of the Wailing Wall.

But it is more than symbolic.

Far more.

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Trump's wall would ultimately serve as his most profitable grift yet.

Cost estimates would quickly be overrun and contracts to build it at every level would be awarded to allies and debtors.

Oversight would be laughable.

It's a mob bosses dream. The bottomless grift.

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Today is the perfect day to reclaim your anger and reaffirm your commitment to #TheResistance.

Donald Trump does not deserve to sit in the Office he stole.

He deserves to sit in a maximum security prison, in isolation, for the remainder of his natural born life.

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If America is as much an idea as it is a place than that idea has been corrupted and compromised just like the man who pulled us here.

Please fight for the idea of America. Fight to unseat and unmask this ridiculously incompetent facist overlord and his party.

#Resist

This was literally written by a court recognized wall expert.