Denny, you always write well, but this is particularly good and intense. I would cut the last paragraph and end on the sentence: « All roads lead back to Trump ». That is a more dramatic ending! I hope you are submitting this to some source.
I take question with the "roads lead to Trump" analysis. They certainly did at the beginning, because DT captured the angst of 40 (or 70) million Americans who felt dispossessed, left behind, blah, blah, blah, and parlayed that onto a loyal following of Magats who hung on his every conspiratorial word.
But those days are waning. He's lost a great deal of his popular support, with primarily the loudest and foulest - and Republican politicians - remaining.
I think the problem currently resides with the media - from Fox News & MSNBC to the WAPO, NY Times and the rest of mainline media - that make EVERY story about DT, retweet every X, etc.
If the media ignored him, and called out his lies as lies, he might have much less influence on the country. Who really cares what he thinks anymore. Most of us do not.
Denny, you always write well, but this is particularly good and intense. I would cut the last paragraph and end on the sentence: « All roads lead back to Trump ». That is a more dramatic ending! I hope you are submitting this to some source.
I take question with the "roads lead to Trump" analysis. They certainly did at the beginning, because DT captured the angst of 40 (or 70) million Americans who felt dispossessed, left behind, blah, blah, blah, and parlayed that onto a loyal following of Magats who hung on his every conspiratorial word.
But those days are waning. He's lost a great deal of his popular support, with primarily the loudest and foulest - and Republican politicians - remaining.
I think the problem currently resides with the media - from Fox News & MSNBC to the WAPO, NY Times and the rest of mainline media - that make EVERY story about DT, retweet every X, etc.
If the media ignored him, and called out his lies as lies, he might have much less influence on the country. Who really cares what he thinks anymore. Most of us do not.
And the language for both vaccine and election deniers is troubling too. Which came first: a novel virus or an evil runner?