On March 19, President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in a doomed attempt to rope Japan into his unpopular war with Iran. “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Trump said to Takaichi in response to a question from a reporter about why he did not tell American allies about his unprovoked attack on Iran.
The attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor famously occurred on December 7, 1941. This was five years before Trump was born and 20 years before Takaichi was born.
For over a decade, Trump has gotten away with one insult, one outrage, one crime after another. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” said Trump in 2016 remarks at a supposedly Christian college. “It’s, like, incredible.”
It is, like, incredible. Trump’s core base is so morally depraved and intellectually enfeebled that nothing he does or could possibly do will make them change their minds about him. These people are very stupid, very poorly informed, and very stubborn, in that order.
Even though they were just as surprised as anyone when it happened, it’s no surprise at all that Trump’s cheerleaders have swept in to defend him for illegally embroiling the United States in another unnecessary war at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu. Iran’s ruling regime was no picnic, but so far the war hasn’t done anything to change it beyond switching out the figurehead at its top. At any rate, if America’s now in the business of removing any leader who’s badly running a country, I would suggest we start at home.
So, what can we actually do about the Trump sycophants in our midst? These dummies will still be around long after our 79-year-old commander-in-chief has passed on to (hopefully) his eternal punishment. I doubt they will coalesce into a functional political movement around the painfully uncharismatic JD Vance or the insecure shrimp Marco Rubio.
In the meantime, though, we (by which I mean every sane, decent American of any party or no party who wants democracy to survive beyond the end of this year) have to win the midterms. At a minimum, Democrats in Congress must get subpoena power for there to be any hope of slowing this rolling nightmare of a presidential administration. In a best-case scenario, Democrats could win back enough seats to actually impeach and convict federal officials.
Your most important role in this is to cast your ballot in the right way. That’s not all, however. Sure, try to make some donations if you can. Volunteer for a local campaign or party if you can. Yet, it doesn’t take any excess cash or extra time commitment to do what I think is probably the most important thing you can on a day-to-day basis: push these kooks and morons back into the margins of society where they belong.
Now, don’t do any violence, obviously. Also, if you know someone who is not otherwise an irredeemably awful human being who has supported Trump in the past, use your own judgment on perhaps enticing them with some softer rhetoric. But if you’re at the mall or whatever and see some rando wearing a big, dumb Trump sweatshirt, or a stupid f*cking red hat, tell them to go ahead and eat a bag of dicks.
It’s not these people’s fault that their parents were siblings, but I’m sick of them ruining the country because of it. Before Trump came around, people didn’t say racist, awful, ignorant shit all the time because they knew others would react negatively to it. We can go back to that. Reason is never going to win over people who somehow still remain hardcore Trump supporters three months into the hell that is 2026, but belittling them and making them feel as stupid as they are every time they display their support for Trump will help prevent them from infecting others with their idiocy.
Three months into this year we’ve already dealt with Trump’s unaccountable goons murdering Americans in the streets, transitioned from invading Greenland to invading Venezuela, and now we’re all apparently supposed to have forgotten about everything else as we continue to bomb Iran in order to ruin the economy and spike gas prices. None of this was exhaustively planned out. It is the random neural excrement of an old man in decline who was never an intellectually impressive specimen to begin with.
Don’t let Trump supporters turn this country back into a monarchy on its 250th anniversary. They don’t know shit. Get out there and remind them of that.
Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator and author of Your Debt-Free JD (affiliate link). He has taught legal writing, written for a wide variety of publications, and made it both his business and his pleasure to be financially and scientifically literate. Any views he expresses are probably pure gold, but are nonetheless solely his own and should not be attributed to any organization with which he is affiliated. He wouldn’t want to share the credit anyway. He can be reached at jon_wolf@hotmail.com.
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