Tim Barrus, New York Times
There is one future. War. I have now been in a dozen riots. I follow them. I am taking notes. I am taking photographs. I want a record. I want history to confront at least one voice that says It Didn’t Have To Happen But It Did.
What Schwartz sees and what I see live in two worlds that do not seem to inhabit the same planet. We all have a bubble to live in. Trump only has so many words that express the same delusion of thought repeatedly. I don’t care how Trump talks anymore. I get what he articulates and how he articulates it. It’s the New York Times that keeps saying over and over – Look At This.
We know. We also know that Trump is in the process of creating a dictatorship. Where are the questions. Where are the questions beyond the words he says that explain what he is doing to us now in terms of his behavior. The plotting. In other words, how do we look beyond the crimes to the stranglehold one man has on what used to be called (wrongly) democracy.
You are all focused on what the magician pulls from his hat. While the magician has been sawing the lady in half. To use Trump’s own words: It should never have been allowed to happen. How is it we took our eyes off the main event.
Sorry analogy. But it’s historically apt. Adolf Hitler had created a mythology the German people took as truth. That he and only he could save them from the ravages of irrelevance. Meanwhile, when the people were facing hunger, the industrial war machine was making argument viciously ephemeral.