For a very long time on my Aftershow podcast, which aired for 15 years behind the paywall of Hugh Hewitt’s Hughniverse site, even before the Republican primaries got underway in earnest, I spent a lot of time looking at what America is going to look like after November 5th.
At the time, Joe Biden had one foot in his political grave, and the other on a banana peel, and was poised to get beat by whomever the Republicans nominated. Yet the rhetoric being used by politicians on both side and in regime media got dialed up to 11 on Spinal Tap’s guitar amplifier. My concern was that if Trump or a Republican won, half the country would absolutely freak out because the end of the American experiment was at hand. When it became clear Donald Trump would be the GOP nominee, the intensity of the threat to democracy rhetoric greatly increased.
Even with the replacement on the Democratic side…
