I like Rebecca Solnit's hopeful outlook about the broad-based coalition Musk-Trump may be building in response to their destruction of, well, everything. But note this report and the obstacles we Americans are up against as we hope for people to see, understand, and come to their senses about what's going on.

Jonathan Shorman reports on Kelli McGlothlin's recent firing as an IRS employee.

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https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article301316279.html

As Shorman reports, Kelli McGlothlin of St. Joseph, Missouri, voted for Trump.

She now finds herself out of a job with the IRS due to Trump-Musk's gutting of the federal government. She's furious.

But does she regret her Trump vote? Apparently not.

Musk did this to her, she says. Not Trump.

Though Musk wouldn't be rampaging through the federal government WITHOUT TRUMP standing right with him, giving him free rein.

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As Jess Piper writes,

"No one elected Elon, and we need to remind working folks of that and the fact that Trump put him in power. Make Trump and Elon one in the same.

Elon is Trump. DOGE is Trump. Layoffs are Trump. Higher grocery prices are Trump. Tariffs are Trump. Misery is Trump. All of this is Trump."

But, again: great density and addiction to disinformation. And it's self-chosen.

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https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/speaking-to-working-and-rural-folks