Greg Olear: What We Take Back

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Greg Olear
@gregolear
"Donald John Trump will never concede, because money, but he’s now entered the 'pardon all my co-conspirators' phase of the lame duck period, which precedes the 'grab as much cash as possible on the way out the door' phase."

What We Take Back
Be thankful! Come January, there will be a resurgence of good things.
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I’VE BEEN SAYING Trump is toast for a good month now. But after his string of humiliations this week—loss upon loss in court; states certifying election results despite his repeated demand for recounts; the defenestration of Sidney Powell, the QAnon darling late of his legal team; his lipsticked lapdog at the GSA reluctantly, and classlessly, handing Joe Biden the keys to the car; Trump himself sitting behind what appears to be an end table, upbraiding a reporter to not talk to the President of the United States like that—it’s really, truly over. If you don’t believe me, believe Marc Elias, the heroic voting rights attorney largely responsible for that Jets-like streak of Trump court losses:

Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
📺WATCH! The bottom line: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
won this election by MORE than 6 million votes. They will be sworn in on January 20th without delay. No post-election lawsuit will change that fact.

It's over for Trump and his allies.
November 25th 2020

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Donald John Trump will never concede, because money, but he’s now entered the “pardon all my co-conspirators” phase of the lame duck period, which precedes the “grab as much cash as possible on the way out the door” phase.

To be sure, the president can still author a lot of misery in the next 54 days. The Second Wave is here, the Supreme Court just sided with the virus, millions of people crisscrossed the country for Thanksgiving, Black Friday exists. And Trump is going to make things as dark and difficult as possible, because he’s a vindictive little prick.

With that said, he will be gone come January 20, come hell or high blood pressure. Here’s a short list of things we take back when he leaves:

Compassion

After four years of sociopathy, selfishness, and sadism, we have a president who actually cares, deeply, about people.

Irony

Back in 1997, The Onion ran a (satirical) piece in which the “U.S. Retro Secretary” warned that “if current levels of U.S. retro consumption are allowed to continue unchecked, we may run entirely out of past by as soon as 2005.” I feel the same way about irony during the Trump years. We broke the irony barrier. Truth is crazier than fiction. Veep ended because the writers read the newspaper and were like, “Sorry, dude, we’re out.” MAGA don’t understand it. Already on life support, irony died with Herman Cain. I welcome its resurrection.

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