A quick thought worth sharing

seems accurate...

Sam Stein, over at The Bulwark, had these thoughts this morning in his Substack post:

Here’s the thing about this moment: It’s both ridiculous and deadly serious.

One day we’re laughing about Trump proposing to invade Panama, or floored that he would accept a $400 million flying bribe. And we all dunk on him. Because what can you do except roll with the gallows humor?

But the next minute masked federal agents are grabbing people off the street and renditioning them to foreign gulags without due process. And there’s no humor in that. It’s as serious as a heart attack.

While we’re getting whiplashed between these two poles—the farcical and the fascist—we have to figure out how to keep going. How to confront the never-ending cascade of danger that is being whipped up.

This is pretty much how I feel most mornings waking up in today’s version of the United States under Republicans and Trump. We could flesh out both the farcical and the fascist paragraphs with all we have lived through the past 100 days and 10 years. I do appreciate folks like Charlie Sykes (To the Contrary substack) who remind us every day “We are not the crazy ones" and Joyce Vance (A Civil Discourse substack) who reminds us “We are in this together.” Sam Stein closed his substack this a.m with “The only way through is together.”

All good thoughts for evil times.