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The Republican Party’s Deranged Fantasy for the Future.
‘The radical Christian Right calls for exclusion, cruelty and intolerance in the name of God. Its members do not commit evil for evil’s sake. They commit evil to make a better world. To attain this better world, they believe, some must suffer and be silenced, and at the end of time all those who oppose them must be destroyed. The worst suffering in human history has been carried out by those who preach such grand, utopian visions, those who seek to implant by force their narrow, particular version of goodness.’
Chris Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.
Donald Trump’s inauguration as 45th president of the United States still feels like a surreal dream; a brief no-clip into a strange, alternate universe where such bizarroland events were normal, even commonplace.
Like a collective nightmare the sane amongst us just want to wake up from, it still doesn’t seem real. Hints of its outlandish unreality urge us, on a daily basis now, to think twice; to question if it really was just the product of a twisted mind’s imagination, a Simpsons episode gone wrong perhaps.
During his four-year stint in office, every day felt like a fresh outrage against human dignity and decency, and there were so many scandals it’s truly arduous to recall all…
