What do you call it when your political opponents are repeatedly threatened, harrassed, persecuted, marginalised and smeared?
Don't misunderstand me: I know the Democrats are far from guiltless, they've done similar things themselves. But never, so far as I know, so blatantly, so proudly. It's like Bush and torture: Trump is, to use the buzzword du jour, "normalising" these things.
It's still possible for Trump to prove me wrong. He could stand up to Putin, he could divest his businesses (or at least put them in a blind trust, like Bush and every other millionaire president before him), he could announce his conversion on climate change... The man is so inconsistent that all of this is possible. But the signs are not there.
In other news, I got an email from Yahoo! telling me that my account had been compromised and I should be sure to update my login details.
But: I'm pretty sure I've never had a Yahoo! account. I can't think of any reason why I would create one. I searched through my email history for evidence of having done so, and came up blank.
If I were of a paranoid disposition, I'd think someone was trying to trick me into typing my passwords into a system that they've owned.
