When Facebook Becomes Blogging

 For years I've been telling anybody enabling enough of me to listen to my ranting that we have to be restrained with Republicans. Not because they're reasonable and democratic, but because they're not, and there's no such thing as taking on a cult of millions casually. Non-partisan groups have now certified this as the safest election in modern American history (and I was WRONG about that), so now a good three-quarters of Trump voters deny the election's legitimacy. This is, quite literally, the red line. You don't make a 'federal case' out of people doing anything less than not recognizing a government's legitimacy, because what it takes to reel a party that unwieldy back in is world-historic. We've tried politics, and politics hasn't worked. War is the extension of politics by other means. We don't know yet what 'war' means in this case, but now, we're at war.