We have all been to dinner parties, social events, and chats over the yard fence where we have shrugged our shoulders and said, “What can we do?”
The sheer scale of Donald Trump’s grift and corruption has sometimes seemed too big to challenge.
The president has paralyzed his own party, prosecuted or terrorized his detractors, penalized the media, and upended the rule of law.
He has disgusted our allies, cozied up to autocrats, lined his family’s pockets, and turned our melting pot nation into a grab bag for billionaires.
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Even worse, he has created a climate of suspicion where people are afraid to walk down the street or turn up for work for fear of being arrested or thrown out of the country. Trump’s administration bristles at Nazi comparisons, but how else would you judge a government that blames the weak and treats honest, hard-working people with such cruelty?
The Republican Party has failed us, and so, up until now, have the Democrats. Even the courts have politicized our lives, ruling largely along party lines. The Trump-heavy Supreme Court, supposed to be our savior, ruled that the president was immune from criminal liability for his actions. No doubt he will also pardon the rest of his henchmen. Where does that leave us?
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