Fergus Finlay: Cruelty goes unchecked as Democrats fail to get act together

Behind the craziness there is deeply sinister change. The kind of change that won’t just change America but the world. And it’s been driven by an entirely sociopathic approach

Elon Musk and Donald Trump. The blueprint they have adopted, the so-called Project 2025, is cruel, heartless, and being implemented without a shred of empathy or human conscience.

I have found the last couple of weeks watching America, and America’s place in the world, really disturbing. Frightening, almost. For three reasons. Sociopathic policy making. No end to it. Feeble, disorganised, and cowed opposition.

In a column here last Saturday Mick Clifford gave a brilliant list of twenty things for Donald Trump’s first twenty days. Reading it would make your head spin. Clearly Trump and his people have been getting ready for this. And, of course, a lot of it sounds crazy. How can RFK Jr’s appointment not go wrong? How soon will it be before Trump has reason to regret the pardons he handed out to the January 6 criminals? When will someone be seriously hurt by the vengeful decision to remove protection from some at-risk Americans (put at risk by going about their jobs)?