The Agony of Defeatism
It's going to be a long slog through Trump's world of performative cruelty but we will win in the end, because we have to
So, yesterday was a particularly bad day in Donald Trump’s America.
That was the case when I wrote that sentence. You may be reading it a week from then, in which case, yesterday was still a particularly bad day in Donald Trump’s America.
It’s a tsunami of shit, to put it crudely, and crudely seems to be the only response to an administration dedicated to crude cruelty. I’m specifically thinking of Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Kristi Noem standing and laughing in front of cages that will soon house alleged “illegals,” most of them non-criminals, in a Florida swamp they’ve dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” because they think that looks good on the merch they’re selling for their bespoke concentration camp. But there are so many more atrocities every day, every hour, every minute.
I haven’t seen America through rose-colored glasses since sometime in high school. I have been painfully aware of my country’s shortcomings, past and present, a…
