what's 'in the cue' right now is still another Republican economic disaster.

and it's going to make 2008 look like a garden party.

Trump is a conservative problem. But even before Trump, Conservatives were the problem.

Stagnation under Obama? All Conservatives doing that.

The Iraq war, its obscene cost? Conservatives.

Education mess? Conservatives.

Run away debt? Conservatives.

A sleep at the wheel for 9/11? Conservatives.

Destruction of the unions? Conservatives.

Modern Day Jim Crow and resurgence of racism? Conservatives.

Trump is just the latest in a long line of Conservative screw ups and hissy fits.

The GOP should be embarrassed by the string of morons they've gotten elected president since Eisenhower.

You've got the crook, the actor, his flunkie, the lying war monger, and the traitor.

I remember as a kid listening to adults talk politics in the 70s and 80s. I've always been a natural liberal in a conservative family on my father's side, so I didn't agree or understand their arguments much, but it was intelligent talk. Also it was rational adults debating issues rationally and respectfully.

Then Newt Gingrich showed up in 1994 and changed everything.

Not only did the Republican party and the Conservative movement take a hard right turn, it also got mean and clannish. They've been this way ever since. Then W came along, bringing with him a willful ignorance and under him the party actually purged what remained of its intelligentsia. Suddenly George Will, who is not dumb, and his ilk had no home. And they're still outside looking in today.

Its astounding. Republicans are now the party of mean, stupid people and nothing else.

The majority in Congress (GOP) could stop his policies.

They won't

That is certainly true. He is not the problem, but those who enable him are the ones who keep this train wreck going down the track.

I just want to stay alive and alert until all of this is over and we are well on our way to recovering. It's starting. I can't wait.

As well as continued obstruction and hate.

Wealth and or income inequality is only one small issue to be addressed.

it's true in families, it's true in business, it's doubly true in government where the foul ups impact everything the government does, which is to say everything

issues and so forth needs to take a backseat for now--and we should rescind gorsuch and other noms because a criminal was in the WH

I explain that we are on a kind of national auto-pilot.

I have flown back to the USA a total of six times now since the election of 2016. What has changed physically, and for me personally? Not a whole hell of a lot. The ocean water off of Cape Cod is a little warmer, but it has been getting progressively warmer for two decades now. A few people I know have retired, some have gotten married, one has died (he was 91 and ill with cancer). But we keep on keeping on, and try to spend our short time there with the good people we always spend time with.

But the awful changes we know are coming will be slow to manifest themselves in the eyes of the superficial visitor (Lawrence, Massachusetts is not on the list of "must-see" places in New England). The horrible part is that it will take just as long, if not longer, to reverse them.

With a Senate, a House and a President working for power rather than for the people, we can only try to obstruct, and have precious little ability to do even that. All we can do is vote, and vote we will.

though. As you say. I agree with everything but that paralysis word. Far more is happening than cable news talks about, and the right is far from paralyzed.

They're very busy at work destroying what they don't like in our government, institutionalizing corruption to serve them, packing our courts with right-wing extremists, and diverting America's wealth and power to them before they lose control of congress. If they keep control of congress, overdrive gets shifted into hyperdrive.

The one place we have an advantage is through the justice system. Much slower, acting after damage is done and only able to undo part, but the courts aren't paralyzed and are still by far mostly our weapon. But there also a very dynamic right is close to crippling the left.

And removing the president won't stop them. But taking control of BOTH houses can.

COUNTDOWN TO THE MIDTERMS: 51 days!