Friday, January 11, 2019

Reviving blog!
Reading Paul Johnson's history of the world this (last) century has been stimulating.
Trump's regime calls up historical tragedies of the not too distant past: Franco, Hitler.
I fear we underestimate the scale of harm that we face. We need greater scope of imagination to anticipate the actions of which he (and a wide and seemingly callous
corps of destructive people) is capable. I intend to explore some of the fantastic possibilities that reading history suggests may lie in our future.
Autocrats are  rather removed from the results of their actions, Hitler never visited a death camp.
Trump, re/ the many federal employees who are furloughed or working without pay: "They'll adjust. They always adjust."
At his NJ resort, his bed was made by an illegal immigrant. He rants about the violent, perverted tendencies of illegal immigrants. How does his "mind" work?
We must not be too averse to wading in muck to root out this threat to the country, or in pushing back on the immoral backers who look to him to effect their fear backed reactions to their imaginings.