- Stop mourning – it’s a done deal, he’s our President
- Stop being confused and bewildered – get over it and get to work
- Stop looking for meaning, strategy, coherence – they’re missing
- Stop reading his Tweets – it’s part of his shiny object gambit
- Stop thinking he will change – he never has
- Stop believing he will become presidential – he doesn’t know how
- Stop thinking he’ll divest himself of conflicts – he’s too greedy
- Stop thinking Congress will stop him – they’re gutless
NOW IT’S UP TO US!
Yes, I’ve been beating the drum against Trump’s ignorance, arrogance, bigotry, misogyny, and bluster since before the election. His faults were so obvious and well documented; he was an easy target. But, now he’s the Commander-in-Chief with the nuclear codes at his stubby little fingertips. We need to focus. It’s time to end this charade and call him out for trying to hijack our democracy. He and his feckless, reckless, clueless posse have put American democracy in peril. We now have an uninformed, unread, impulsive, petulant, narcissist as the 45th President of the United States. And, it’s not just America that’s concerned; his ignorance of world affairs is scaring other world leaders too.
In Erica Jong’s 1973 novel, Fear of Flying, we were introduced to the “zipless fuck,” a sexual encounter involving two previously unacquainted persons with no emotional commitment.
