Evil Is as Evil Does

Life in Trump’s America is all about taking the most pleasure in inflicting the most suffering

It’s as cliched a phrase as you can find but how else can I convey the utter feeling of being overwhelmed than to just admit: I don’t know what to say anymore.

Sure, I knew last November that it was going to be bad. A lot of people did. I just wasn’t prepared for it to be this bad, this fast. It’s left me speechless.

Well, not literally speechless, I’ve certainly had my moments of ranting. And it’s the rare conversation these days that doesn’t circle back to the off-brand Mao directing a cultural revolution from the White House.

But ranting isn’t writing. And every time I sit down and start with one thing — say, ICE stalking a local elementary school that happens to be majority Latino — I get a notification about another thing. Like, the madman in charge of Health and Human Service gutting the CDC’s HIV/AIDS department that I worked with back in my public health days. Or that the White House is holding school lunch money hostage to force Maine to bend the knee by ostracizing trans people…