Andrew Sullivan picks up an unexpected reaction to the new Administration (paywall):
But attached to that nausea is something else: boredom. He just doesn’t get to me the way he used to. When I read about his provocations toward Canada and the Panama Canal, for example, I merely found my eyes rolling gently backward. Good one, Donnie. But you’re not gonna trigger my amygdala this time. You busted it already.
Same with the Bobby Kennedy nonsense and the Elon Musk madness — a man whose political judgment seems as finely honed as an autistic 14-year-old who just discovered TikTok.
I know I’ve been avoiding news concerning politics since Election Day, and it’s only a small portion of dread – there’s a lot of feeling like we’ve been down this path before. Trump will try to, say, kill off birthright citizenship, and a bunch of lawyers will file litigation to fight it.
Another four years of bombast and mendacity, accented by dementia? Oy.
