[T]here is something salutary in the Trump era about reality reasserting itself in this last twist of the viral knife. The man has spent years at war with reality: living in delusions, perpetuating fantasies, imagining hoaxes, constructing conspiracies, accruing debt, rewriting history constantly as self-serving myth. At some point, reality was going to get personal in return. And it has. Like all tyrants, Trump lives in an alternate universe where his will, tempered only by his whim, determines everything. And like all tyrants, Trump will eventually be defeated by the distance between his universe and the real one. The question has always been how long that would take, and how much damage would be done in the process.
Andrew Sullivan at his resurrected blog The Weekly Dish.
The expression “reality show” is a euphemism for a TV show with a premise that is entirely unreal and often bizarre. So it’s the perfect way to describe the Trump presidency. The threats to democracy and national security are the only things genuinely real about it.
Don’t rely on COVID-19 to defeat Trump, we have to do that ourselves. We also need to vote out Senate Republicans who served as Trump’s enthusiastic accomplices.
Viruses don’t vote, people vote.
