The problem isnt Trump. And we have to stop saying it is.

by ultrageek

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Sunday, Feb. 01, 2026 Sunday, Feb. 01, 2026 at 5:56:21pm PST

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

We have a Naxi problem. We have a fascism problem. We have a Trump and Vance and Noem and Johnson problem.

What happens if/when the 25th is invoked, or Trump dies? Is our problem gone? No, because Vance will be worse. Trump is a vapid narcissist who wants adoration and bribes. Trump wants his name emblazoned on the Washington monument in letters 40 feet high and painted gold. The Right wants a Reich and they said that Vance was their man, and we would be well served to believe them.

Get Vance in, as unlikable and unelectable as he is, under Trump's aegis and let Trump die in office or 25ed out, because he is clearly infirmed, and the Right gets their guy.

And so long as we keep saying that Trump is the problem, then Vance is a solution. And we have just aided and abetted the Right in the Court of Public Opinion.

So, stop saying that Trump is THE problem. He is A problem. Fascism is THE problem. And Trump is enabling it. And so is Vance. And Noem. And Johnson. And the rest of thw billionaire-selected Right Wing rulers. Including Thomas and Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito.

The problem is NOT Trump. It's bigger than that.