The maniacs are out there screaming on the other side of the hill.
They are coming closer.
They are moving with astonishing speed.
The American Republic is being smashed by Trump and Musk and by the Republican Party as their supine collaborators.
With a few exceptions, the utterly feckless leadership of the Democratic Party stands by wringing their hands.
The maniacs are preparing to gut medical research, public schools, all help to the poor, environmental rules by the score.
The rule of the Oligarchs is almost here.
The Justice Department is being turned into a predator for Trump’s opponents.
The maniacs are in the process of betraying Ukraine, of capitulating to Putin, of leaving Europe open to his aggression.
All of this is being done in our name.
We are preparing to facilitate the mass expulsion of millions of Palestinians from Gaza and from their homes in Israel.
That would be a war crime. That would be done in our name.
We are turning Canada into an enemy.
We are turning Europeans against us.
We have begun the creation of an American Gulag at Guantanamo Bay (right now, only for Brown people).
Russia is overjoyed.
Dictators believe they have one of their own in the White House and in the Trump appointees exercising every tool of American power.
Racists everywhere are overjoyed.
We live in a time of experiential politics. Nothing is real until it touches most American voters personally,
until it arrives in their community, in their bills, in their 401K’s, at the gas pump, in the supermarket.
History doesn’t matter.
Good reporting doesn’t matter.
The suffering of others doesn’t matter.
Democracy may not matter.
The maniacs are almost here. There is no safe place.
