General Discussion

So, I thought way back then, what is the GOP trajectory? In their pursuit of rule by wealth they would never actually have a majority. They would have to compromise to simply survive. Once they had Nixon and a new age of cheating and racist division they would develop a taste for doubling down and reaping financial "rewards". Once Reagan hit then it seemed they had reached pinnacle Conservative rationality and it was not enough. Voting machines dawned bleakly of the electoral horizon. But the trajectory would always depend on war, divisions, compromise and finding some figurehead who could still be THAT bad. Useful idiots? Rich guys? In the end, I thought, it would be a military dictator, but NO, a populist rich guy with the severest issues sleazed his way in, easily upstaging his preening, non-TV experienced rich guys. Probably the Epstein cabal was a deciding factor.

This was always going to pit the utter degeneration of the "elite" grabby class against dis-empowered democratic forces and the general decline in leadership and institutions, the utter loss of that good old "charism" thing unless you think Satan is charismatic.

JFK talked of his party's trajectory and all we have is a historical interest in the trajectory of bullets.