Alan: The most frightening feature of Trump's presidency is that people really want him to be president - a persistently vindictive boor-chur-cultural-terrorist.
Trump is not an anomaly.
He's The New Normal.
Like post-Maria Puerto Rico, it remains to be seen if the devastation can be repaired.
I hope so.
But once a people promotes falsehood as fact and monstrosity as standard operating procedure, it is difficult to imagine "a way out" until "the whole shebang" collapses as prelude to unimaginably distant resurrection.
To realize that "we don't know what we've got til it's gone," it is first necessary that "it" go away.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
New York Times Reporter Nicholas Confessore Discusses Trump's Deeper, Dirtier Iteration Of The Swamp
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