My genuine hope is that Trump is such an extreme and specific personality that infected our politics at the “right” time (read: perfectly wrong time) that literally nobody else would be capable of doing the damage he is doing at the rate he is doing it.
Yes, he’s somewhat a symptom of fundamental problems in our system. But the safeguards we have in place would normally cause our devolution to happen much more slowly in which the eventual dystopia won’t feel as bad because each level down won’t feel as noticeably worse than the prior level.
So if we survive this term (huge fucking IF), then I believe we can actually have a slight rebuilding period until the next generation who is less aware of Trump’s bullshit are ready to get us back on track of proper deterioration.
I think her being generally quiet and inconspicuous over the past decade was sometimes perceived as savviness with a tiny element of shrewdness to avoid getting involved with Trump’s bs. But this moment reminds us that, no, she’s probably just not very bright.