The Summer of Our Discontent? Not on our collective watch.
With the summer upon us there are many, many things to do and enjoy rather than observe and comment on the steady stream of nonsense that spew forth from the American administration. It is wearying, not to mention exasperating. Justice and State Department purges of the principled officials who dared challenge past Trump transgressions continue unabated. For those of us who "remember" history, these moves parallel every authoritarian dictator, past and present. Aside from wearying it is exasperating that almost every clear thinking person with an ounce of morality has folded their cards and retreated to the safety of anonymity. The religious right in the United States seems blind to their own moral hypocrisy in supporting a unrepentant liar, felon and sexual as well as commercial predator. If any foreign government challenges the simpleton's tariff sledge hammer they are threatened with a bludgeoning from a bigger hammer. There is no challenge that can be met with a rat...