What Will Tomorrow Bring?

Not even a veneer of concern.

Serious governance is not on the agenda, but survival is. The Trump administration is too far gone to think about actual governance.  That was never going to be their thing. Instead, it’s been a witch’s brew of strange bedfellows and questionable alliances, a patina of “patriotism” scratched off to reveal authoritarian intent, along with vengeance, paranoia, mind-numbing incompetence, and a conveniently interpreted, ill-conceived, heavy-handed brand of Christianity.

Governance as the founding fathers envisioned it is too hard for this collection of impostors. They prefer a white, subservient, ignorant populace, only good for filling positions at a front line of some war that didn’t need starting, or to work at jobs that end up enriching the one-percenters somehow and at some point. This is not tenable for much longer.

America the truly beautiful may have never existed, but many of us were optimistic that it someday could. The descent to some much lesser place is in progress, happening quicker than many had anticipated. And it is as if the Trump administration is daring us to fight back, so it can unleash the real ugliness, the unmistakable evidence of a takeover.

It’s laughable that Trump encourages the people of Iran to keep protesting–and dying– while the same thing happening here, in solely Democratic and ethnically diverse strongholds, is met with an influx of ill-trained ICE agents and maybe members of the military, always one panicked move away from bloodshed.

It’s only the middle of January. Trump and his cadre of Snidely Whiplashes seem intent on shielding their felon/POTUS for as long as they can from the relentless specter of the Epstein files, or maybe just from his stunning cluelessness and constant lies. So, we have an invasion of Venezuela, a criminal investigation of Jerome Powell, talk of acquiring Greenland either the easy way or the hard way, saber-rattling directed at Iran and Mexico and even Canada, and a POTUS who is so immature and needy that he can’t rule out accepting an undeserved Nobel Peace Prize from its rightful recipient.

It’s enough to make one think that we are unable to awaken from an epic nightmare.