There are, of course, a million different things to write about. But Donald Trump often emerges as a topic because he’s always doing or saying something so monumentally shocking or dumb, considering the position he holds and the fact that he’s running roughshod over long-held norms and expectations. Promising the world and delivering nothing but misery and embarrassment.
The fact that he doesn’t care about any of this is apparently still a plus for a lot of people—even with the evidence before us that he’s trying to topple whatever pillars once existed.
The only conclusion one can reach is that there are many who prefer we tear down the Statue of Liberty, or at least remove “The New Colossus,” with its invitation to the poor, huddled masses. The powers that be, currently, aren’t interested in any poor, huddled masses. For one thing, they don’t want to work that hard to welcome them. But more significantly, they harbor this destructive notion that desperate people looking for a better life are not to be trusted. The only ones who will do are white people from northern Europe or white “refugees” from South Africa.
It’s hideous on the face of it—that we let this mindset through the door, allowed it to fester and spread to the point where the cost of freedom for all of us is rising by the day.
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