Don't Overreact to Every Stupid Cruel Grump Shiny Object

"There’s no magic remedy or strategy for contending with how [G]rump operates. In some respects, simply a recognition of this fact is key to having the stamina to contend with him. But it probably means needing to be ready for different threats without running after them until they fully materialize."

Josh Marshall @ TPM 

Or why spazzing out about every stupid cruel threat Grump makes is probably not the best use of an effective opposition's time. He's always ran this successful hedge with his cult that he really would fix everything, as he is always promising, if it wasn't for the terrible dems and liberals getting in his way. This puts an opposition in a tricky place. Foremost, journalists need to investigate and expose his worst abuses, which will just as often not be the "shiny object" he's owning libs with on social media. Maybe Hegseth and Gabbard are distractions; it's the Project 2025 revanchist rightist technocrats, etc? Anyway, it's going to be an overwhelming "flood the zone with shit" for four years, minimum. And whatever Lusk's ground game really was will be expanded and more entrenched for '26 and '28. But, most important, the opposition needs to let Grump fuck up and have to own it. Keep close score of his economic record. Of course, everything that goes wrong he'll blame on the democrats, and Fox and friends, will amplify his conservative take. Like I said, it's tricky. Oppose the bad stuff he does when he does it but don't spend too much energy opposing every stupid cruel threat he makes. We're in this weird, scary, place, again, where we're waiting for him to blow up the economy or murderously bungle another national crisis event, another plague, war, climate change disaster, or follows through on his campaign promised threats to mass deportations and fascist violence against Americans identified as the "enemy within." To do the terrible thing again that will hopefully finally turn the electorate against him. In the meantime, it's whack-a-mole with every toxic bit of MAGA they infect into the government. First, trying to stop his worst appointments, please. Jayapal, Bernie, Warren, AOC, Jeffries, Schiff, Ferguson, etc. Thanks for your efforts.