While Trump is obviously the prime mover of the ludicrously obvious wholesale destruction of the US, more and more I don’t really blame him. At heart, he’s really just a thin-skinned ball of insecurity with the emotional development of a toddler driven by primal instincts to attack everything that he considers a threat, which is pretty much anything and everything.

I think more all the time that the lion’s share of the blame for all of this is more legitimately placed on the thousands and thousands of people who all have access to authority with which they could stand up to him, and who are just too craven and cowardly (or complicit) to actually do it.