The United States Of Snitches:

This is not how it works for followers, though, or with Trump; those who live to serve him have always very clearly been destined to be buried alive with him. It is, in every degrading sense, a sort of American Dream.

The entire program is lavishly and howlingly fascist, of course, but it is also so preposterous and so small. All of this underwrought bombast and frantic bullying is doing real and unjust damage in actual people's lives, but it is also slick with the sort of flopsweat that adheres to the phrase "like and subscribe." In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation.

... the one thing that Trumpism has ever offered—not real opportunity or purpose, not inclusion or community, not even personal advancement, but merely the chance to hurt other people and get away with it.

These are clowns, factory seconds, prissy sadistic losers, and the clock is ticking. They know as much. They also really mean it.