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Tom Quigley's avatar

Excellent piece!

Trump training his base and society generally to accept his victimhood and violence as normal. Media is lazy and complicit.

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Ellen Deschatres's avatar

I agree...it IS surreal. If I keep responding to your excellent posts, it’s because I am trying to understand the trauma I am again experiencing due the elevation of Trump in our country’s politics and political psyche. I always thought that my fellow countrymen and women could be trusted to choose right and integrity over moral depravity and degradation. After President Biden’s election in 2020, I dared hope that they knew the difference plainly and that the choice (almost in as stark terms) between good and evil would always result, of course, in our choosing someone like Biden who is ‘good to the bone’. But is it so? I almost cannot bear the thought that a man so evil could AGAIN run the country...and I do mean run...into ruin and into a snapshot of his moral turpitude.

I seek reassurance that there is still hope, but I feel that the howling winds of winter carry my hope with them. I suppose I believe that to be an American is to also believe steadfastly in our ability and desire to hold on to what is right and just and fair for all, but is it true?

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