John Oliver examines 'Trump’s Second Term'

I closed John Oliver on UFOs for World UFO Day by telling my readers "I might return with another John Oliver video for tomorrow's post that I can share next month. Stay tuned." I'm following through by sharing Trump’s Second Term.

John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, why it could be much worse than his first term, and what Trump has in common with a hamster.

I'm recycling what I wrote in National Review ironically reveals another deep truth about the current GOP to begin my reaction.

As I tell my liberal friends who keep thinking that the GOP should be dead by now, the GOP as a traditional party engaged in electoral politics is already dead. What it is now, as described by "EscapefromWisconsin" over at the Hipcrime Vocab, is an authoritarian movement. That makes it an undead party in a democratic system. As Bela Lugosi's Dracula said in the eponymous movie, "There are far worse things awaiting Man than Death." Yeah, and one of them has happened to the GOP.

That was a dozen years ago. Back then, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan weren't the candidates to realize that movement's ambitions; they were still conventional conservative candidates contesting for power in a democracy. The condition of the GOP has become even more obvious since then with the rise of Hoover Cleveland, who is the right candidate to fulfill the current party's dictatorial desires. As I wrote nearly three years ago, "I had no idea how right I was then and now I wish I hadn't been. Break out the garlic."

MSNBC has been all over Project 2025, so stay tuned to see if I follow up with their videos tomorrow for a serious take on the issue.