To go back to this, what puzzles me is that you don’t have to research very hard or far to determine exactly what powers the president can exercise. Not like it’s any secret.

We spent eight years with Democrats and the press lying to us about how Obama was hamstrung when of course in an emergency the president has vast powers. And if 2008-2009 wasn’t a fucking emergency, I don’t know what is.

If Obama had done what was right then there’d be no Trump now.

I need to watch No Country For Old Men again. Though thematically it has nothing to do with the present, its tone feels precisely like this moment.