I suspect Donald Trump’s arrogance and greed—combined with the slavish fear of almost every Republican politician unwilling to oppose him—will lead them all headlong into a predictable quagmire and easily avoidable disaster.
Not only have Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and the MAGA majority in Congress betrayed their voters, they have publicly stabbed the Epstein-Maxwell victims and survivors in the back.
We are, sadly, living in a time of lies, when truth seems an endangered species. I, like so many others, wonder when the House of Lies that Trump has built over so many years will collapse upon itself.
I believe it is so very important to see for yourself how Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell are re-writing history, prisoner and prosecutor together weaving a web of deceit and distraction.
With the categorical claim that there was nothing to be learned from the departed Jeffrey Epstein or the voluminous files, the focus turned to the convicted Ghislaine Maxwell and, with it, the compelling need to figure out what she might say.
History will record how easy it can be to tap into bias and fear and anger and transform frustration into hating the other, despising and distrusting those immigrants who made a similar journey to find a better life just like our grandparents.
Mad monarchs surround themselves with frightened sycophants who learn early on that access, sometimes life itself, is immediately denied to those who deliver bad news. So, it is little surprise that Donald Trump is increasingly oblivious to the disastrous effects of his irrational exercises of American power.
What does it say about us that prestigious universities and powerful law firms and media conglomerates wilt before the narcissistic tyranny of incompetents?
Events like Katrina exposed a critical dilemma for us: the growing magnitude of climate and weather disasters and the extraordinary challenges we face as we try to respond to them. And yet Donald Trump’s solution is to curtail the federal government’s need and responsibility to take action.
So many of us interpreted Bob Dylan’s declaration that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” as a call to dispense with Big Brother. Lo and behold, it is the right wing that is devoted to destroying government as we know it and, unsurprisingly, endangering us all along the way.
If I have sounded like a broken record these past months, it is because these developments in American public health are as important as they are horrifying.
Gone is respect for the hard-earned body of knowledge developed over so many years by exhaustive trial and error, by continuous study, experimentation, and re-evaluation, honed by failure and followed by success.
Sadly, for the American people, whether it is something distorting his soul or his mind, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with his many anti-vaccination compatriots, has brought chaos and destruction to us all.
