Trump may have authoritarian aspirations, but he's very bad at governing and managing—four weeks into the transition, he's had two major Ls.

Kash Patel is making legal threats to try to silence his critics, and Tulsi Gabbard wouldn't even be able to get a security clearance in the regular job market: The parade of incompetence is so bad that Pete Hegseth is being described as the most unqualified Cabinet nominee in American history—and that's before the rape and alcoholism.

We're going back to a president who can't be bothered to read his briefing books.

Russ Vought, Trump's nominee to run the Office of Management and Budget—and a Project 2025 author—believes we are living in a post-constitutional America and that any check on Trump's power would be illegitimate.

Kash Patel, who could potentially run the FBI, is a compulsive liar who can't keep his facts straight about his work experience or even where he was born.

Pete Hegseth may have a winning Fox & Friends smile, but his desire to shoot protesters, commit war crimes, and purge non-MAGA leaders from the military lines up with Trump's views—and is probably the reason why he was nominated for defense secretary.

For those living under a gray cloud because of what the American electorate has done, it's time to get to work on changing opinions.

The danger of Trump's nominees is that the main condition of employment—aside from being on Fox—is their fealty to him.

The country is now paying for the pathologies of the oligarchs and baddies who were stuffed into lockers when they were kids.

Because Trump wasn't penalized for trying to steal the 2020 election, our democracy has already been damaged.

The incompetent and compromised nominees Trump has assembled at record pace show how little regard he has for the essential functions our government provides.

The Democrats focus too much on reaching white college-educated voters, and the threat to democracy was not the right closing message.

Trump is flooding the zone with nominees who would destroy government norms and standards and create the kind of chaos that would let him do what he wants.

Ted Cruz and Jim DeMint ground things to a halt in the Senate quite effectively during the Obama era, and Democrats should take a cue from them for Trump's appointments: Demand hearings or hold their own.

Trump's appointments—like degenerate Matt Gaetz and Putin stooge Tulsi Gabbard—are about his raw power and his stupid show, but are also a risk to our nation's security and institutions.

Republicans have been good at telling a story about the economy and how people should feel about it, and Democrats haven't responded in a sufficiently compelling way.

The worst people believe their worldview has been validated, while the best people are uncertain, scared, and angry.

The Trump team is moving quickly to sell out Ukraine, but it's not clear yet whether Putin would settle for taking a quarter of the country—or if he intends to crush it, so he can plant the Russian flag in Kiev.

It's time to get our opposition organized and develop a narrative about Trump. And one narrative that's likely to emerge is how he betrayed his voters.

The Trump trials were a cosmic democratic disaster, and the justice system did not do justice: Trump was not treated in the same way as other people who've stolen classified docs or tried to overthrow the election—and his conviction and indictments made him more qualified in MAGA's eyes.

The American people made their choice, and the fight to preserve the global democratic coalition against the global authoritarian movement continues.

Kamala's tailored campaign message and ground game didn't matter.

Whatever happens tonight, Never Trumpers and voters should be proud that we rose to the challenge of Trump—and that a majority of Americans see through this fraudster.

Republicans are crowing about a big turnout of early rural voters and a decrease in African American voters in the cities.