My biggest issue with anybody looking solely at or toward either of the extremes:
- “He’s a competent and benevolent leader who’s well on his way to Making America Great Again!” vs.
- “He’s Godzilla on bath salts and this time he’s going to wipe out the entire globe and nothing and nobody can stop him!”
is that it tends to distract from the actual actions, actual Court decisions, actual policies, and the actual shift of both the Overton window and the continuum between Democracy and Autocracy.
Don’t miss the forest for the trees, and definitely don’t miss the forest because you think it’s cute that somebody carved “JM + DL” inside the shape of a Valentine’s ‘heart’ in the bark of a single tree.
It’s a bit like an NBA basketball game: no matter how good the dominant team is, the other team is gonna’ get some points on the board, too. It’s a fait accompli.
[Ann_Hedonia isn’t the only one who can mix mettaphors, dammit!]