"An absolute insane person. My god."

~ Sarah Longwell quoted by Greg Dworkin

P.S. Are we really going to play the purist CW labeling games — US Pol — when the fate of the WHOLE WORLD is at stake as a madman with his hand on the nuclear button threatens to rain down destruction on a nation he's targeting?

Do we really have the luxury of that kind of purism right now?

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/2376433/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Trump-s-unqalification-to-lead-is-on-full-display

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's unqalification to lead is on full display

G Elliott Morris/Strength in Numbers: Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the "double-haters" Plus, the share of Americans calling themselves Republicans just hit a decade low. Your weekly political data roundup for April 5, 2026....

Daily Kos

“I know all of you [fellow Republican leaders] and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit."

~ Marjorie Taylor Greene quoted by Lucy Campbell

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions

‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’

The Guardian

@wdlindsy

Well MTG is complicit, too

@darwinwoodka I suspect that any of us taking note of what she said to push back against fascism is well aware of that fact — and many of us are well aware that a politics of purism won't get us far in the pushback process. It helped get us into this mess in the first place.