For most of us, President Dotard will never intrude on our lives, other than by Tweet or television.
But for those whose papers are not in order, he has created a dark state where the knock on the door at midnight is redolent of those tales of the Gestapo coming to take away whole families.
He may be a dithering dotard, and be unaware of the harm he has unleashed, but that does not mean the harm is any less pernicious.
Reading in the New Yorker about a huge city size housing project in Moscow where the forerunner of the KGB goons would arrive at night to seize families and haul them off to the Gulag or to execution, I thought of those people who were brought here by their parents at age 3 and now live with the idea of the knock at the door.
They come at night. The Ku Klux Klan came around at night. That's when people are likely to be home. Makes sense.
What does not make sense is why they are coming round at all.
The Dotard's voters want to return America to the days when White Anglo Saxon Protestants ruled. They don't care if they are a minority in the United States, just as long as they, like the plantation owners of Mississippi can keep control of the masses whose lives they rule. Minority status is no problem, as long as you have the power.
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| Pia Guerra |
But for those whose papers are not in order, he has created a dark state where the knock on the door at midnight is redolent of those tales of the Gestapo coming to take away whole families.
He may be a dithering dotard, and be unaware of the harm he has unleashed, but that does not mean the harm is any less pernicious.
Reading in the New Yorker about a huge city size housing project in Moscow where the forerunner of the KGB goons would arrive at night to seize families and haul them off to the Gulag or to execution, I thought of those people who were brought here by their parents at age 3 and now live with the idea of the knock at the door.
They come at night. The Ku Klux Klan came around at night. That's when people are likely to be home. Makes sense.
What does not make sense is why they are coming round at all.
The Dotard's voters want to return America to the days when White Anglo Saxon Protestants ruled. They don't care if they are a minority in the United States, just as long as they, like the plantation owners of Mississippi can keep control of the masses whose lives they rule. Minority status is no problem, as long as you have the power.
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