Dunno where this should go, but this seems like the Trump thread now, so putting it here.
I was watching Drug Lords on Netflix about Pablo Escobar and I was struck by the parallels to Trump that I had not recognized before. Like Trump is now, Escobar…
1. Was the head of a criminal empire
2. Was worshipped by the common man as a Robin Hood anti-hero
3. Mixed crime and politics as a duly elected federal politician
4. Operated in plain sight
5. Avoided any real consequences for his lawlessness for decades
6. Attacked and subverted the institutions set up to protect society from people like him
7. Waged a war against his nation’s federal government with a domestic terror campaign
8. Made it to where the Colombian government and he could not coexist; one of them was going to cease to be
Now Trump doesn’t have siccarrios on his payroll ready to go assassinate the attorney general at his direct order, but his followers are seemingly motivated to act in that capacity. They are at the least conveying threats of murder to government officials targeting their crime lord in an attempt to get them to capitulate to Trump.
Here’s to the US proving to be as ready for its Trump test as Colombia ultimately proved to be for their Pablo Escobar test.