I can’t imagine that I have agreed with anything Molly Jong-Fast has ever written. But! She is right about one thing: “None of this is Normal”. Jong-Fast wrote “Donald Trump’s 2024 bid is an antidemocratic revenge fantasy being treated like a conventional political campaign.” Her article represents the unexamined, fevered-dreams of her elite class.

Before we talk the article, we should talk about Molly Jong-Fast. She never had a chance at anything “normal”. Her Mother, Erica Jong, wrote an navel gazing novel, “Fear of Flying”. Her Father, author Jonathan Fast, is the son of the man who wrote “Spartacus.” She was raised in the rarified air of the elite bubble, with all that implies.

Here she is, from last week, not understanding the real reason Trump is sitting in a courtroom and annoying us with her particularly whiney vocal fry”

.@MollyJongFast: "We've never had an election where one candidate is sitting in a courtroom like this for weeks and weeks. I think it's going to be a heavy lift.. [Trump] needs to expand the electorate in order to win…I think this is a bad look for swing voters." pic.twitter.com/qAMtoxMErI

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) April 2, 2024

You have the picture now, right? From her Vanity Fair article:

On Monday morning, Axios’s Mike Allen blasted out his early morning email with the subject line: “Scoop: Trump’s retaliation plan.” It seems that Republicans, after failing to find actual evidence to support their vibes-based impeachment of Joe Biden, are plotting how to prosecute the president and his family if Donald Trump returns to power. “One Trump ally argued that there is precedent for a second Trump administration to investigate and prosecute the Bidens: the current federal charges against Trump,” Axios reported.

Let’s pause for a moment from today’s latest campaign “scoop” to make something clear: None of this is normal. None of this is how American democracy is supposed to work. Trump is not a normal candidate, despite how the media often covers him. He has autocratic ambitions, having told supporters, “I am your retribution,” and has promised to be a “dictator”—a dictator!—on “day one” in office.

Miss Lady Thing needs to calm down. Biden has had the Justice Department going after Donald Trump since Trump came down the Golden Escalator and Obama thought up the idea. The “one Trump ally” means nothing. There are a lot of RINO hangers on who would like to have Trump’s ear. He’s smarter this time.
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Trump is a presidential candidate unlike any other, just as he was a president unlike any we had before. We have never had a president who didn’t accept the peaceful transfer of power and encouraged rioters (“will be wild”) to storm the US Capitol. We have never had a president who was impeached twice, including for trying to incite said insurrection. We have never had a former president who faces 88 charges across four criminal cases, and is scheduled to be in court next week for a hush money trial. (This is also a person who is now opposed by many of the people who worked closest to him the last time around; even former vice president Mike Pence won’t endorse Trump.) The situation we’re in, and will be in for the next seven months, is without precedent. And there is no handbook for US media outlets covering the rise of authoritarianism on its own shores.

There was a bad, awful riot on January 6 incited by the Feds who egged the crowds on. The actual “transfer of power” was utterly peaceful, except for the visual of the National Guardsman in D.C.. My nephew was one of them. Former Veep Mike Pence has been working his own agenda from jump and the more we learn the worse it is. Mike Pence is a black-hearted, back-stabber, the more we learn.

Busted: Mike Pence Helped Jack Smith! 'Secret' Notes on Trump Unveiledhttps://t.co/oUKjEKB0Vk

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 6, 2024

Miss Molly thinks Trump was jealous of Biden fundraising with Obama and Clinton. Oh, I think I hurt myself laughing. And just so she knows, we welcome G.W. Bush like we welcome Mitt Romney. She can’t read the room:

Here Jong-Fast reveals another of her “normal” fevered-dreams:

In the makeup room at 30 Rock, I joked with another MSNBC guest that we could share a cell at Guantánamo Bay. I was kidding of course, because no one takes what Kash Patel said about jailing members of the media seriously, but why don’t we? Patel told Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast that, if Trump is elected in November, they “will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media.”

Christians have been arrested for praying, parents have been hassled for speaking up at school board meetings, and the J6ers have been held without bail. That’s not normal. Molly Jong-Fast is going around worrying about antidemocratic. Oh my. Look in the mirror. Normal, bah.
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