Posted this after the election, remember feeling so relieved at the time. Think Trump has made some missteps but overall he’s done a decent job dismantling some of the worst parts of the system (long way to go still, hard task.)
Biggest surprise for me is that after enduring so much insufferable scolding, collectivism and identity politics from the left for the last 10-20 years, I’d have to start hearing it from the right. Nowhere near as bad as the Biden years (yet), and hopefully we never get there, but human nature is human nature.
Anyway, I post my reaction below because my sense of relief at being liberated from this prison of ideology was so profound, and I would hate to find ourselves on the opposite side of the same coin four years from now.