Tim Barrus: New York Times
I get Trump. He’s a mean and cruel monster. He is America. What I don’t get are the people who work for him. I don’t mean his fellow enforcers and goon squads. I mean the people who are out of work.
The guards and sentries and the childcare workers and the fillers of the forms and the concentration camp tyrants and the authoritarians and the bullies and the taskmasters and the teachers and the bus drivers and the soldiers and the janitors and the drill sergeants and the givers of the foil blankets and the cage builders and Hitler needed his little despots, too.
As soon as the New York Times gatekeepers see the word Hitler, they will run. This will not have a voice. I am uncivil to mention Hitler’s name. But this must be articulated.
We are not in danger of losing our democracy and constitution. These things are gone. We did it to ourselves.
This is the middle class, and the middle class always does what it is told to do by the aristocracy. History. Camps. Ovens. Slaves. That is how it works. That is how it has always worked. Hitler was not out there shoving corpses in the ovens. That would have been the German middle class.
You wanted him. You got him. You voted for him. He is now the despot who has kicked you out of your jobs.
Anything to have your jobs. I have been privileged to have worked with kids all my life.
I’m sorry, but I have been asked to do things by administrators that were ill-advised and immoral many times.
I refused. Refuse.
Take responsibility.