The Anti-Trump Paradox

Anti-Trumpism normalizes Trumpism by trying to handle it within a system which it negates, invalidates and undermines by its authoritarian ideology and criminal behavior. Trumpists are not customary combatants but non-state, international actors like terrorists. Therefore, the systems don't work.

The 'rule of law' is useless against them. They are its antimatter. Luckily, we have suitable infrastructure and means in place, thanks to Republicans, to handle such an existential national threat. Facilities at  Guantanamo and elsewhere, and approved methods such as 'extraordinary rendition' and torture.

All legally vetted, approved and tested by Republicans. They are a massively bigger threat than al-Qaeda ever was. We see immediately the appropriateness and necessity of the detention, isolation and quarantine of MAGA Republicans and Trump himself, the worst threat the country has ever faced.