I don’t think you’ve ever seen anything “completely cycle through.”

We’ve never had a convicted felon as president before. Bonus points, the felony was for election-related crimes.

We’ve never had the capitol stormed and breached by insurrectionists before.

We’ve never had a president call up the Georgia Secretary of State and ask for votes before.

We’ve never had the president steal classified documents and store them in a resort bathroom before, and get raided by the FBI to get them back.

We’ve never had a president impeached twice before.

We’ve never had a president pay out a judgment to his rape victim before.

We’ve never had a president sell third term campaign merch after the constitutional amendment was passed setting presidential term limits.

We’ve never had a trillionaire illegally lead a fake government agency before and fire a large chunk of the federal government without congressional approval before.

I could continue but we would get exhausted all over again.

If anything the current slow crisis we are in has been greatly downplayed even though there is nearly constant outrage about it. We are in the middle of an attempt to turn our federal government into a Russia-style mafia state. This is not a cycle that has ever competed in American history.

The urge of people right now to normalize what's happening intellectually makes sense to me but is also so upsetting. None of this is normal. None of this has been seen before (or at least, not in America).

As a trans stuck here without a passport it's scary, but the fact that so many otherwise intelligent people are constantly at the ready to tell me it isn't, is terrifying.