I have a very good friend who’s about my age, i.e., getting old, who writes:

We the People either find a way to break Trump’s party’s grip on the wheel, or we go down with the ship….Like many of our older citizens, I’ve been fighting against this evil current for decades, and with many in later generations who’ve also been waking up and grabbing oars, I still hope we may together turn the tide.

In many, probably hundreds of talks we’ve had on this and related subjects, you’ve always been the more optimistic one. And that’s a good thing, as pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I agree that there are scenarios under which Trump is removed from office before our nation becomes another Russia.  Yet my imagination is running thin, as each day we have an event that boggles the mind: he did WHAT to the East Wing of the White House?

Does Washington D.C. need a new ballroom?  Our course not.  Trump has a need, however, and that is to show the American people that, to use my favorite French expression: les carottes sont cuites, i.e. “the carrots are cooked,” a metaphor for “the dinner I’ve made is a disaster and it’s too late to save it.”

Most of what he does on a daily basic is patently illegal, and, while small acts, like executing a few Venezuelans on the high seas with no proof of guilt of a crime may seem trivial, what they really mean is this: “Obviously I know that this clearly violates both domestic and international law. That’s the whole point.  I can do anything I want, and no one can stop me.”

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