What the hell's wrong with us?

Where is the outrage?

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy is starting a SuperPAC. He says it’s different “because it is not focused on funding campaigns and instead is looking to mobilize people against Trump’s agenda.” Good luck.

I don’t disagree that we need mobilization against Trump, his agenda, and the whole group of morally compromised grifters, cynics, and cowards collectively known as Republican Members of Congress. I’m skeptical that a PAC can do much and I’m dismayed that the American people haven’t risen up in anger and outrage. The type of mobilization that could stop Trump and his band of political bushwhackers emerges organically, not through funding ideological organizations.

I have a hard time recognizing our country right now. The cruelty, corruption, and incompetence of the Trump administration are just staggering and yet most of the American people either approve or seem to be watching it unfold like its a multi-part mini-series, not their country on fire. Let’s see if tomorrow is worse than today.

Trump’s immigration policies are meant to be cruel. He’s sending people to a foreign prison without due process and shipping others to a failed state in the midst of a civil war, plagued by massacres and famine. He’s sending home children in need of medical treatment. He’s separating mothers from their children after living in the country peacefully for decades. And Americans are cheering him on for punishing people whose main crime was hope for a better life.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended a world order that, for all of its flaws, has largely kept dictatorships contained and offered countries a model for improving human rights and economic prosperity. His disrespect for our allies and flattery for our adversaries has left us a weaker country, distrusted by our friends and less feared by our enemies. When he’s finished, we’ll be treated like a drunken uncle waving a loaded firearm at a family reunion, never sure if he’s going to shoot somebody, fire into the air, or pass out after a rant.

In just four months of his term, Trump is ending more than a century of the best and brightest people from around the world coming to America. He’s deporting foreign students or keeping the smartest people in the world from coming at all. With Trump’s policies, we never would have attracted Albert Einstein, Wernher Von Braun, Nikola Tesla, Jonas Salk, or Irving Berlin. European and Asian countries, including China, are salivating at the prospect of picking off top academic recruits that should be coming to America. I guess we need to be satisfied with guiding lights like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.

The corruption in the White House is staggering in its magnitude and brazenness. Trump is selling pardons outright for a combination of cash and loyalty. He’s making billions from his crooked crypto scheme as people, business, and even countries line his pockets in broad daylight. He’s taken a $400 million airplane from Qatar and negotiated a new Trump resort in Vietnam in exchange for better tariff deals. He’s running the country like a business all right, his business and only he and his cronies are benefitting.

The Republicans in Congress have abdicated their oversight responsibilities. Instead of holding Trump accountable for anything, they offer weak whataboutism to justify looking the other way while he bilks the country. They confirmed an administration full of crackpots and drug-addled advisors to run the country. Columnist Jennifer Rubin sums it up nicely:

While Musk was the most unstable, wacked-out member of the Trump team, we should consider the full array of misfits, cranks, neo-Nazi sympathizers, demagogues, anti-constitutionalists, and habitual liars who populate the Trump team. In a single administration, there have never been so many intellectually shortchanged figures, ethically compromised lawyers, and emotionally unhinged conspiratorialists (from Kash Patel to Ed Martin to Paul Ingrassia to Emil Bove to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Pete Hegseth to Stephen Miller).

Where is the outrage? What’s wrong with us? Are we really going wait to see how all of this plays out?

I guess I should be happy that Chris Murphy is spending money to mobilize Americans. I just don’t believe they should need any more motivation than watching what Trump and MAGA Republicans are doing to our country. God help us all.