A word from Officer K: The Delusions of Cruelty
Image by Niek Verlaan from Pixabay "What were they thinking?" my friend asked. "They weren't," I replied. We were speaking of the Trumpists who have been recently visited by what could be called the FAFO Leopards. The red-hat brigade who voted for the red-hat guy, and got rewarded with layoffs and soaring prices and measles. What were they thinking? Easy: They weren't thinking . They were emoting. And none of that, I asserted, meant they were likely to see the error of their ways once they got bit. They weren't going to convert and become rainbow-flag waving progressives because their orange idol screwed them over. They were just going to look for another idol of a different color, but the same stripe. Maybe not as prominent a one, maybe not as charismatic, but an idol of cruelty nonetheless. So much of what thinking goes on here, such as there is any, can be summed up in another phrase floating around these days: "They thought he was going to...
