It's the Day's Day of Days! Because under the sea.
Man, watching Muir squirm as he tries to convince himself that he isn't the patsy and that his boy is the victim helps me get through this presidency.
Not as much as a good Irish coffee, mind you, but some.
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I have to differ with you, however reluctantly, in interpreting Muir's writing over the past year or so. Your read on it is that he is squirming in ever-increasing unease and discomfort as "all the winning" never comes to fruition and the criminal investigations draw closer.
ReplyDeleteI wish I saw the same thing. It'd sure feel satisfying to watch Muir and his friends "squirm." But I just don't see it. These, I feel, are people who are capable of convincing themselves of absolutely anything, even if it's all being made up on the spot as they go along. No scales of any kind are falling from their eyes, and their only moments of wavering faith come at times like the omnibus bill passing.
Muir and his friends are just fine. They're not uncomfortable at all.
Which sometimes makes me wonder if I even belong to their species.
I've been reading Muir for years, and I don't expect the scales to ever fall of his eyes. What I expect, from past experience, is ever more ridiculous explanations of how this isn't what it looks like, followed by either an explanation of how Trump was never REALLY a true conservative, or an explanation of how he was stabbed in the back by degenerate traitors when it all falls down. And I've no doubt Muir will insist that he's fine--BETTER THAN FINE--throughout. But it takes effort to keep that balloon of crazy afloat. This is a flakier, brittler version of 2006-9 Muir, and it shows. Sure, he's just going to pretend that he never said what he just said when this is all over. Just as I've no doubt he tells himself that he's so much happier now than when this was actually getting published in newspapers.
DeleteWell put. Can't disagree with any of that.
ReplyDeleteI really wish some really qualified person would discover DBD and write a thesis paper on how its author's slow breakaway from reality into fever-dream madness has paralleled that of American conservatism writ large. It would be a fascinating essay.
"....followed by either an explanation of how Trump was never REALLY a true conservative..."
The best possible outcome of the 2016 election was Ted Cruz having won the GOP nomination, and losing to Hillary Clinton. That would have greatly damaged the perennial narrative that the GOP loses because they never nominate "a true conservative."
I STILL cannot fathom how these people had everything they'd claimed to be wanting for nearly 40 years right in front of them in the form of Cruz, and instead they went for Trump.