The question is what are we going to do about it? I don’t see that trying to somehow squeak through the next 4 years is a viable strategy. Irreparable damage is irreparable. We’re drowning in the swill of this destructive narrative. Grousing about how awful Trump is is not gonna get it. /1
For myself, with my mighty 100+ followers, I’m ready to declare a government in exile and dedicate what’s left of my life, my pitiful fortune and my sacred honor towards establishing a government conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal /2
Of course that’s absurd and I never really fancied myself as the leader of the band, but we desperately need some positive vision on which to focus our energy. There is no normal to return to. /f
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Or who hath brought the fatal engine in
That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound.