Excerpt: "Our shredded nation slowly breathes again as the unelected orange menace leaves us at last."
Donald Trump. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Getty Images)
19 January 21
ur shredded nation slowly breathes again as the unelected orange menace leaves us at last. If you somehow feel your mood lightening and your state of mind improving, here’s why:
This twice-impeached viral dung heap who needlessly killed 400k-plus Americans, along with 13 federal prisoners he outright murdered at the last minute, is actually on his way out.
And we are all exhausted!!!
Donald Trump was NOT our worst president (that was Woodrow Wilson).
But Trump’s lethal legacy includes:
The psychological impact of this VERY close brush with utter catastrophe is easily underestimated. For the past four years, we’ve experienced a relentless, gut-wrenching, nerve-destroying, utterly satanic assault on Truth, the planet, and every aspect of human compassion, core competence, basic decency, and common sense.
Only a savvy, dedicated grassroots movement fighting for ecological preservation, social justice, racial equality, LGBTQ rights, election protection, and much more has saved us from a truly hellish fate — and not by all that much.
To say the challenges ahead of us are epic and immense is to understate the case. We are far from a guaranteed success.
But our saving graces abide: our diversity and a rising Millennial/Zoomer demographic tsunami with a deep commitment to democracy, social justice, ecological harmony, and Solartopian survival.
We’re emerging this week from an unthinkable nightmare. It has seemed as surreal as it has been torturous. How, after all, do we explain Donald Trump to our grandchildren?
So if you’re feeling residually traumatized and depressed while at the same time giddy and lightheaded, it’s more than understandable.
Take some time off. Get your bearings. Thrill to the mobsters flying out of town. (Be glad you don’t have to clean up the mess they’ll leave in that White House and on that plane.)
Await with great glee an orange, prison-bound flood of jump-suited idiots.
Kick back. Smoke a joint. Get into the woods or the ocean. Walk the dog. Make some love. Eat some good food. Sleep for a few days or a week or a month.
Then let’s get back to work.
We’ll all be at least 250 pounds lighter. And it’ll feel great.
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman co-convene the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition, which focuses on remaking our democracy. Join our Monday 5 p.m. zooms via www.electionprotection2024.org.
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