How an empire dies
The common clay of America elected an imbecile as president not once, but twice. The great voting public of America saw what Donald Trump did from 2017 to 2021, and not only thought that was good, but that he deserved a second term to finish what he started. Well, he certainly is. To my mind there is no doubt that he is in office merely and simply to kill this country. He is in office to act out his revenge fantasies against a nation and world which has always laughed at him as a louche, slimy nouveau riche scumbag. Electing a "New York City real estate developer" to the highest office not only in the United States, but the world, should have been such a farcical idea that it would have been laughed out of the realm of any possibility. Certainly, when he rode down that garish escalator in his falling-apart building, and immediately began talking about Mexican rapists, that should have been the end of him. But it wasn't. Because a majority of white America was frightened e...
