'The Horror, The Horror: Welcome To the Hate Fest'
"As menacingly foretold, an addled, vengeful dolt has unleashed a deluge of mindless venom, rancor, racism, cruelty - and domestic terrorists - on a populace he just vowed 'to serve and protect,' banishing any vestige of fairness or mercy in the name of a re-whitened 'blood-and-soil America (where) their worst self is their truest self.' With a shiny new Gulf of America and soon-rotting crops on the vine, are eggs cheaper yet? Are we great now?"
"Thus has a tawdry, unmoored, insensate man-child who 'represents everything this country flattered itself it was not' sought to create a 'United States of Backlash' wherein 'virtually all the social progress of the last half-century is reversed.' Yes, it's that bad. Massive wrecking ball bad. Petulant, self-serving, weirdly shark-and-windmill-obsessed, with the bottomless animus of a sick middle-school bully, he has flung open the orange-makeup-encrusted floodgates of hell to prey on the most vulnerable among us and sulkily proclaim, 'Nothing will stand in our way.' In his first demented days of power, Trump has launched a torrent of executive orders that effectively 'declare war on the American people,' seeking to abrogate every denizen's rights, dreams and safety except those of his cadre of tech bros and billionaires. The result, writes Paul Waldman, is a 'meaner, angrier place where there is no greater happiness than seeing those you hate suffer, and not only no shame but even a kind of nobility in being like Trump: rude, cruel, petty, greedy and small.'"
"With only his wee brain, thin skin, squinty pig eyes and remnants of a $400-million-dollar faux silver spoon stuck up a grievance-filled ass at his disposal, Trump is nonetheless doggedly working to strip the basic rights of every queer, poor, trans, sick, female, migrant, mouthy or non-white 'other' by any means necessary. If he was Taliban in Afghanistan, he could ban windows and the seductive sound of women's voices; here, he can only raise drug prices, kill environmental protections, end birthright citizenship, dismiss science, encourage pandemics, silence gun reform efforts, and categorically banish any and all rules that forbid or hamper discrimination, anywhere. As he ignores 'virtually every important issue facing the working families of this country' - housing, health care, racial or economic equity - Bernie Sanders, who God love him almost alone refused to bow down or stand up for his oligarch-packed coronation, argues our job in the dark days ahead is 'not to respond to every absurd statement' but to 'stay focused on the issues, to do the right thing.'"
(Edit: It's a long editorial, but well worth reading in its entirety.)
https://www.commondreams.org/further/the-horror-the-horror-welcome-to-the-hate-fest
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