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The Logical Conclusion
Four Years of Madness Ends Exactly as Expected
Four years ago, I wrote like mad. I ranted and raved, trying to write myself to some truth, or at least some understanding. I, like most Americans, was stunned by the 2016 election, afraid of the future. I briefly entertained the idea that it wouldn’t last long, that our system of checks and balances would save us from the Republicans and their Trojan monster.
How quaint it seems now.
We are all being taken for a ride, sent up the river for the price of a show, promised a spectacle of “soft sensuality,” if we will only stop worrying about things like morality and decency and ethics and law, if we just promise to look away, bury the questions, quell curiosity about the truth. — January, 2017
Here we are, exactly four years later, more storm-tossed and weary than many of us ever imagined. But we knew it all. And we watched with horror every single day as it unfolded. Public record shows that DJT has always been an unscrupulous, narcissistic, racist with deep ties to organized crime. We have watched much of the Republican party enable his madness and fan the flames of destruction for four years.
What facilitated these years of possibly irreparable damage?
