13<p><a href="https://itself.blog/2025/02/23/turbulence/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itself.blog/2025/02/23/turbule</span><span class="invisible">nce/</span></a></p><blockquote><p>Bush was an evil president using the power of the state to do evil things. Trump has effectively abolished the state. We do not have laws. We do not have a government. We certainly don’t have a Congress and we barely have courts. But in an important sense, we also don’t have a president. We have the irritable whims of two billionaires, handling domestic and foreign policy, respectively, and we have a bunch of psychos in charge of more detailed policy portfolios. The goal is not to change public policy, but to render public policy impossible. The goal is not to transform American society, but to destroy it completely, to destroy everything that makes it possible to call this great and terrible nation a human society.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://convo.casa/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/bush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bush</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/kashpatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kashpatel</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/danbongino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>danbongino</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/harmeetdhillon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harmeetdhillon</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/rfkjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rfkjr</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/pambondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pambondi</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/JoeKent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoeKent</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/eschatology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eschatology</span></a></p>