Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! … Two times as the president of these increasingly disunited states of America? Holy cowpie! This country actually did it — elected him (again!) — and so we deserve whatever we get, at least a little less than 50% of us do: Fox News … oops, sorry, Pete Hegseth to run the largest, best-funded, and least adept military on planet Earth? Robert Kennedy, Jr., to keep our health in check(mate?) or do I mean checkerboard red shape? Tulsi Gabbard overseeing what still passes for American ‘intelligence,’ though in some sense it couldn’t have been dumber for endless years?” (12/03/24)