kontextmaschine:

The civic legitimation rituals are going.

On an intellectual level I’ve thought for years that something like this could happen so the first week was a warm bath of vindication and victory laps, it’s actually now seeing it settle in to the patterns that’s uncanny.

Of course, you know me, it’s the little civic rituals that really throw me. Saw a tweet that was just like

Donald Trump is going to pardon a turkey

And I was like FUCK, that’s true.

Donald Trump is going to host an Easter egg roll for children

Donald Trump will throw out the opening pitch of Major League Baseball

I looked for that National Enquirer article cause I thought it would be funny if their take was less wild-eyed than Vox. But “My First 100 Days” “In His Own Words” just refers to that bullet-pointed subhed lifted from his official plan

We Told You So was an article though, 2 pages under the cover, a timeline piece on how his candidacy progressed and all the times the Enquirer had gotten something right the consensus got wrong

I shoulda got a copy now I think of it. It was clearly written to equate Trump’s superiority over the elites with the Enquirer’s, with the audience invited to parallel their own - I’ve wondered what primary sources might be unridiculous enough to do this election in AP US history and that’d be a good one.