“If there is a place worse than hell, I am in it.”
- Abraham Lincoln, December 1962, after the Battle of
Fredericksburg and almost two years of bloody civil war.
Intellectually we have known that this was a very possible result of the 2024 election. It has been a period of awful post-pandemic worldwide political unrest. In one democracy after another the incumbents of every political stripe have been thrown out. Still -- as someone who so loves our American founding principles and who has always believed the arc of history bends toward justice -- it is so hard to accept.
I now must spend at least four years (if he and/or I have them*) of however few years I have left on this planet worrying about whether our republic will survive for my fourth granddaughter who will be born next May. By that time a sexual predator, fraud, unprecedented liar, election cheat, insurrectionist, and wannabe dictator will hold the reins of our unitary executive branch.**
I pray that the work of Jack Smith -- and the work of the J6 House committee and the Mueller investigation, etc. before it -- will be preserved for history. These are dark days for America, as Jimmy Kimmel has pointed out, whoever you voted for and whether you know it yet or not.
I knew when he destroyed the Bonwit Teller building, after promising to preserve the Art Deco features, that he was not a man of principle. I have a long memory (about some things, others not so much).
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