Him

To the extent possible, I try to post little about Trump. He already sucks up all too much oxygen from the world's discursive ecosystem. It is difficult to ignore him, but I try not to have him monopolize my attention. Mary's attention, to my mind, constitutes a more than sufficient investment from our household.

Yet it is hard to do so, because he is so inane, because he is so dangerous, as he tramples on all the norms of checks, balances, due process, alliances built up painstakingly at many levels by well-meaning representatives of various parties all up and down society.

But also because he does represent a fundamental truth, that there's a huge chunk of society who feels like they have been ignored and left out but that this one guy, this flaming asshole - and his analogues in different countries -- can save them. That he cannot, that they are the only people who can and that to do so they must cast down their cell phones, remote controls and Bibles and other sacred texts and figure out how to help themselves -- and that the state is desperate to help them do so while corporations are content to Taylorize them into irrelevance -- that truth has not sunk in yet.

OK. I just have to stop. It's not productive.