Please allow me to posit that
the big boys play the long game, much like the military does in a major war.
Think of Trump's "election" as a Pearl Harbor-type event. The people and the brass are unprepared for the calamity and are seemingly slow to react and recover. The wounded and the dead are attended to with appropriate salves and rites and beneath the decks on the man-o'-war, preparations are slowly but deliberately made for the retaliation which only comes over what seems like an eternity following the initial insult.
Now career politicians, like the military, know that there will be casualties in the battles which will be fought. They are inevitable and tragic, but a great politician, like a great general, plans his or her campaigns to minimize the wounded and the dead while still achieving the objective in a reasonable amount of time. For America, this miscreant was able to disrupt but not demolish the Union and the armies have been assembled and the incursions have been planned and executed. The people in charge of seeing to it that the government functions continuously, who rank above anyone else who is transiently elected to public office quietly set things in motion.
Yes there have been many casualties, but one thing about America: it fights its wars, has its tragedies, its earthquakes, floods, epidemics, depressions and recessions, but in the long run it continues as the capitalist empire's flagship nation. It counts its dead, buries them, and moves forward. Yes this has been awful; yes this has been a monument to lying stupidity and false-prophets, but we are beginning to eradicate this pestilence which has infected the White House and the replacements are being groomed as we speak.
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"If you want to get to Berlin, first you have to get to Normandy"
The group of extremely wealthy people behind Reagan were the ones who played the long game of rat-fuckery that eventually led to Trump. In Reagan's 8 years the people of the United States lost so much ground that we'll probably never catch up. As you know, that was almost 40 years ago, since then we liberals/progressives can barely manage to tread water.
