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One can look back into the catacombs of history and find a multitude of precedents that almost but not quite fit. Caligula and Nero. Mussolini and Hitler. Nixon and George Wallace. Despots on the big stage and despots on the smaller stages. Foreigners, especially non-white ones, as the scapegoat. Greed defined as a virtue and a god made of gold. Skies darkened by industrial smoke and fossil fuel burn off. Lakes and rivers running with effluents. Everything listed above and then some dedicated to making America great again. It’s a giant step into the dark past all in the name of a future made by and for fascism.

The opposition in the legislature melts away; the combination of fear and the obsessive love of money more than enough to get almost everyone in that body called Congress to make the leaf into the trumpist swamp. Trump appointees in federal departments halt all funding so they can review contracts and policies. They are looking for so-called DEI clauses and other culture war nonsense; in truth I think the contracts will be held back until the trumpists can make sure they will make the money from them. Corporate USA is already bending to the trumpist will, deleting DEI clauses and kissing trumpist ass. One wonders what exactly they think the allegiance or even the contracts will get them.

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