ON TRUMP SUPPORTERS

There are many books on the market that urge us to listen to Trump supporters, to be kind and respectful of them. I find Trump supporters, who enable a vulgar, lying white supremacist, who spew racial epithets and insane Q conspiracy theories, morally and intellectually reprehensible. They have supported child separation, "good people on both sides," and attacks on the free press.There have to be limits to tolerance, especially when actors actively attack the rights and freedoms of others. Trump supporters are fascists, are creating a unitary authoritarian executive, and are destroying democracy. I hold to my right to condemn them like the Nazis that they are.

THE POWER THAT INTENDS TO STAY

So, this is how the dictatorship comes, with basketball games and favorite cop shows. By attrition, a law at a time. Information is hidden and propaganda blares; the whistleblowers are quietly arrested, and the lies, simple, big, repeated often, stare. The power that intends to stay forever flaunts custom and rule, riles up lumpenproletarian crowds, loud, louder, accusing opponents of what they term you. A germ warfare of words ensues. Gorka is hired by Sinclair; fascism is doled out with Dole pineapples, McCafe frappes. A public eats the words and naps.