"I will be frank, there are very few of Trump's EOs and actions that I don't agree with"

So just to be clear, you agree with 1500 pardons of J6ers? Or withdrawing from the WHO and Paris agreements? Or ending birthright citizenship? Or ending sanctions on Israeli settlers?

I'm sure you agree, as do I, with some of his EOs on gender ideology. But even here, it remains to be seen how this works in practice. It's often forgotten that trans women were being placed in women's prisons under Trump too. Trump is very good at declarations, not so good at following through.

I'll probably revisit some of this stuff in a couple of years.

As for democracy, Trump is the first president in the history of the United States to refuse, twice, to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. The first to refuse to make a concession speech or to welcome the incoming president. The first to incite a violent insurrection attempt at the Capitol. The first to try to strongarm a Secretary of State into "finding" him some more votes. And as I said, many people now see this as normal.

Trump DID sign the death certificate of democracy. Again, if I'd predicted any of this in 2016, I'd have understandably been called a hysterical leftist with TDS. But now it's the reality. And for a shocking number of people, it's just no big deal.

The problem with Trump's government purges is that he doesn't see the difference between nonpartisan groups, designed to hold everybody to account, and liberal groups, who are focused specifically on the Republicans' mistakes.

Trump sees any group that isn't under his complete control, that isn't loyal to him first and foremost, as the enemy. He sees all criticism as "hate". He sees all measures designed to constrain presidential powers as an obstacle. And so he's trying to remove all those obstacles.

RFK isn't just a bit sceptical about vaccines, he doesn't just have unorthodox views, he is a conspiracy theorist. I'm not questioning his intentions or his character, with the little I know about him, it seems as if his intentions are good. But that's irrelevant if he is susceptible to conspiracies about vaccines that are designed to spare Jews but target black and white people.

I think I spent plenty of time criticising the left. Gender ideology, identity politics, the racism of BLM-era antiracism, my record is pretty clear here. But Trump is going after the machinery of power in a way the Left never did. He's already shown he's willing to push much further than the Left ever did to stay in power.

Im not trying to be an opinion-maker. I'm trying to encourage the same critical thought I've always encouraged. Only now, I'm asking people who have been convinced that EVERYTHING associated with the left is "fake news" and every negative thing they've heard about Trump is a lie to think more carefully.