There is so much pain with 45. Just desultory thoughts here.

[Warpy]

1. Well, don't forget one thing: most of the worst has failed to occur

The House has passed an ACA repeal but it remains in force while the Senate dithers. His budget that cuts everything but the military and giveaways to corporations and billionaires is DOA. His EOs are being overturned. About all he's managed to do is turn latent thugs into overt thugs and piss off our allies.

It's true, optimism is on hiatus except among the MAGA crowd who haven't been paying attention. Their number is getting smaller by the day even if they aren't paying that much attention. The good jobs aren't back and they've been told their SNAP and other benefits are about to be cut (again). He's been in office since January and hasn't fixed a damned thing.

Yeah, there's life in the old Republic but it's going to be messy getting our Republic back.