President Donald Trump flubbed the introduction of Finnish President Alexander Stubb on Monday during the meeting with European leaders who support Ukraine. Trump was announcing each leader, who then would make a comment or thank him for the invitation. He gave each official a little compliment. As ...
I don’t think most people understood what the “status quo” was until Trump started destroying it.
Yes, “status quo” is billionaires, and monopolies, and low-level corruption, and so-on.
But, “status quo” is also civil liberties, a somewhat functional department of education, not having the national guard chasing down brown people in the street, a bureau of labour statistics that didn’t invent numbers to please the dear leader, cabinet secretaries that weren’t actively working to destroy the thing they were assigned to lead, low-level crony and nepo corruption and not over-the-top obvious bribery, and so-on.