BROOKLINE-It's finally time for us Americans to wake up to something that has long been obvious to even casual observers in other countries.
We are being governed by a madman:
• A madman who believes he has absolute power to act out his wildest impulses regardless of our own laws or international law.
• A madman who will stop at nothing to expand and cement his power over all aspects of American life, and over other countries he perceives as weak or contrary to American interests - which, in his mind, are indistinguishable from his own personal interests.
• A madman whose entire raison d'être is to punish anyone who refuses to acquiesce to his lies about the 2020 election, about the nonexistence of climate change, or about his own infallibility.
• A madman who lies habitually and who bullies his entire party and the entire federal workforce to repeat and amplify his lies.
• A madman with complete ignorance of and contempt for science, for history, and for customs and traditions that have governed sane people for centuries.
• A madman who has unleashed a massive federal police force to round up and detain or deport millions of non-white people who contribute critically to our economy, not to mention the communities they live in.
If all of this doesn't scare the hell out of us, and motivate us to do something about it, then I don't know what will.
What specifically we can do about it in the moment is up to each of us to parse out. The people who can set us back on a more-sane footing are the Republicans, who control the Congress. I'm not sure how to convince them to start looking out for their own skins instead of Trump's.
One thing I'm sure of: Our predicament will get much worse if this monster isn't stopped. And it will affect all of us much closer to home than we'd like.
Daniel Towler
Brookline
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