Tootfinder

It’s going to get worse.
Trumism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos.
Each time a new one is broken,
the previous one is normalized,
made to look not so bad by comparison.
The cuffing of Padilla was a red-line moment. And yet:
There’s plenty of reason to worry that in four months, we’ll look back on it as a moment of comparative innocence.

The Manhandling of Alex Padilla Was a Red-Line Moment for America
This is the essence of Trumpism: Go intentionally overboard, and then lie about it and try to reverse reality.