The most important aspect of this is, Johnson was an incredible asshole who would’ve punished the Smothers Brothers if he could, but by the prevailing political norms of his time he had to humble himself and issue a statement like this. Only moral defectives are drawn to positions of power, but US institutions and norms used to curb their worst impulses (and act to punish them when that failed). Now, the institutions have been undermined and the norms have collapsed, so we can see what power-seekers are actually like. Do not make the mistake of thinking Trump and his cabal of monsters are abnormal in politics; what is abnormal for Americans is that there is no longer any attempt to harness or control those monsters and slowly cull the worst of them. They are being allowed to run free and do as they will. And once the immediate nightmare is largely over, unless those guardrails and electrified fences are not only replaced but tripled, you can expect more of the same going forward, regardless of whether the next emperor touts the magical sigil “D”, “R”, “T”, or anything else.
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Electric Fence
Posted in Current Events, History, Tyranny, tagged politicians, psychology on September 26, 2025| 2 Comments »
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