Thread by @RonColeman

There are so many things @realDonaldTrump has had the power to do, and that have been raised publicly and presumably privately, over the last (let's just say) six months

and that he has not done

that we are left with two possibilities. >

1. Something else is going to happen that does not fit any of the standard narratives or any precedent;

or,

2. Trump is ineffectual, timid or as stupid as his enemies say, or a combination of all of these.

Choose one. >

I know you've heard this from me many times before. But it's one or the other.

I'll have been wrong about a *great deal* if either (1) or (2) is the right answer. But far more if it's (2). And if it is, shame on all of us. <>

So of course yes: This was a false dichotomy.

Trump was in fact the most important and effectual POTUS of our lifetimes.

He completely changed the game. His mission did not fail completely. It was necessary to deploy and reveal more of the Beast than ever before to stop him.>

Our relationships with the entities we once trusted implicitly is now realistic.

We know that what leftists like @ggreenwald and paleocons like Pat Buchanan have been screaming for years about who is in charge and what "democracy" really is and isn't is on target.>

Trump is a brilliant politician in having important, popular and "normal" views that appeal to most normal people, articulating them well enough, expressing appropriate disdain for elites, generating enthusiasm, thinking outside the box and getting tens of millions of votes. >

But in the process of exposing and revealing the nightmare of our techno-corporatist-globalist-superadministrative-judicial-mass-media-ginance-police regime, he only showed it that it must stop him.

At any price and at risk of temporarily surfacing. >

He made three primary mistakes, and many of us with him.

1. He thought enough Republicans in govt wanted what voters want to join him in his fight. They don't.

2. He thought most people in government could be induced to do their jobs more or less faithfully. They can't. >

I thought these things too.

This was his third mistake though:

3. He relied on mediocre people, many of them cronies, as key advisors in too many areas.

@brhodes is a cynical criminal, but he knew the game. This White House didn’t. >

I thought - and said a million times - that by now Trump must have learned it. My hope in that was first dashed by the obvious election fraud in 2018, which cost the GOP the House. Everything that happened was observed in 2016 or earlier. No action action was taken. >

But surely this would not happen in 2020?

It did. We all saw it coming and no one did a damned thing. And then they did it again in Georgia just now right out in the open.

If you are the POTUS and you let that happen, you failed. <>