'The Mounting Toll and Absurdity of Trumpism...Mourning All We Have Lost'

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(TPM) "Laying awake last night processing the Supreme Court’s latest galling decision (see below*), I reflected on how many evenings over the past decade have been consumed by late breaking bad news of another historic setback."

"My professional reactions to such news have slowly changed over time, from rushing to alert readers because it felt like an alarm needed to be sounded to waiting until I could provide better context to a growing sense that I have unwillingly become an obituary writer, chronicling the losses here each day."

"This isn’t a lament. It is not self-excoriation that my hair isn’t sufficiently on fire 10 years into the Trump era. It’s not resignation. It’s an observation that over the course of a decade, the response to repeated losses, the next more serious than the last, takes on certain patterns."

"The initial gut punch. The disbelief. The shock, but not really anymore, of another setback. The immediate urge to do something in response and finding few good options. Casting about for someone or something that explains what is happening better than I can. Coming to grips with where the new battle line must now be drawn, but with less confidence each time that it will hold any better than the last one did. Not feeling enervated exactly, but finding it harder over time to direct my energy productively."

Continued at link:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-mounting-toll-and-absurdity-of-trumpism

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* "The six right-wing justices granted Alabama’s request for a stay, which clears the way for the state to hold its 2026 elections under a 2023 map crafted to deliver Republicans six congressional seats and Democrats only one. It does so by making Black Alabamians’ votes count for less than white ones."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-alabama-midterms-black-voters