The progressive project to water down the Second Amendment, enact hate speech laws, change the voting rules, open the border and expand the Supreme Court are paradoxically a sign of weakness, not strength. It is frank admission that the old elites can no longer govern by the former rules and need new ones to maintain control.
The most obvious sign of decline has been in the falling credibility of the media, which polls show to be at an all-time low. Time was when news anchors and famous newspapers were implicitly believed. No more. In its place coarse propaganda is now routinely doled out and is so unpalatable as to require ‘fact checking’ sauce to be swallowed.
There is about Washington something of the poisonous air of China in 1970, compounded of the decaying odor of an aging gerontocracy combined with the frenzied sweat of Red Guard factions vying with each other in tr sweepstakes of millennial extremism. It is the air of something that cannot last and therefore won’t.