Rot

Releasing Trump into the widerness of American politics has been far worse than even I imagined, and yet at least he shone a spotlight on all the existing crevices to expose them. The underbelly of any society isn't pretty and this one was no exception with misogyny, racism and extremist ideologies on full display. The fuse on the powder keg was already there, but it just took someone to strike a match.

Almost 7 years later this dangerous buffoon is still wreaking havoc on the body politic and has a base who thinks he walks on water largely because they aren't clever but also because they have been primed for decades by a Republican party who stopped caring about them decades ago. As a substitute, they stuffed them full of culture war outrage.

None of this will end well, but it needs to happen in order to remake the landscape and clean out all the rot.