Inside the Trumpian Reich

I have finished reading Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and despite the author’s somewhat sullied bona fides and criticisms of his journalistic methodology, I have no trouble believing much of what he has written is right on the mark. Many of the events, facts and conversations are supported by stories we have all read or heard in legitimate media reports and through DJT’s own statements and tweets over the past year. To quote Sean Spicer, the much maligned former White House press secretary - "You can’t make this shit up." Michael Duffy’s and Nancy Gibb’s essay in Time describes the book’s revelations as having captured larger truths. That said, if only 10% of what Wolff has written here is factual and true, then it is enough to make you ill. The White House and the Presidency are in total disarray and this country is being led by a man who is ignorant and infantile and not up to the demands of the office; a man who has no curiosity and makes no effort to inform himself and who is being advised by a coterie of unqualified and inexperienced charlatans, many of whom can rightly be labeled fascists. The individual who stood in front of the Capitol one year ago and swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States has made a mockery of it. His mission is to undercut it at every opportunity. The man now sitting in the Oval Office promised to make America great again, yet his behavior in office and his ill-informed actions and comments have only tarnished America’s reputation within the community of nations. He insults and slanders our enemies and allies in equal measure while denigrating that which we hold dear about our democratic institutions. History teaches us that unheeding hubris can only lead to our own rendering of a Gottesdämmerung, a twilight of the "gods" in which leaders and their people are banished to ruins. Pray this is not our fate. But more than prayer, let’s work hard this year to send the White House Trumpsters and their Congressional minions packing. Let’s take back our country. Let’s really make America great again! It is up to us now. Take a stand! Resist!