University Diaries » “[In yesterday’s speech, Trump] looked scared. He should be: His street brawlers started to do things that he could not disavow or take back, and that left his erstwhile Republican supporters repulsed. Every decent person knew that Trumpism would lead somewhere like this, with red-capped mobs befouling the halls of government and terrorizing the very Republicans who had indulged their leader for the past four years. Trump himself, it now seems, did not know that he would eventually own the outcome.”

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“[In yesterday’s speech, Trump] looked scared. He should be: His street brawlers started to do things that he could not disavow or take back, and that left his erstwhile Republican supporters repulsed. Every decent person knew that Trumpism would lead somewhere like this, with red-capped mobs befouling the halls of government and terrorizing the very Republicans who had indulged their leader for the past four years. Trump himself, it now seems, did not know that he would eventually own the outcome.”

Trump looked scared for another reason. Ask Danton and Robespierre what happens when violent revolutions get out of control. I mean, ask their heads.

Margaret Soltan, January 7, 2021 2:02PM
Posted in: We'll get through this.

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