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The Other Side of The Razor, or America Picked Trump. Again.
I haven’t slept. I’ve been dealing with the same feeling of being blanketed in dread that I had in 2016. It’s 6:21 A.M., and a swath of America has decided once again to place Donald Trump back in the White House. This time stings more than the last. This time, those who have gotten drunk on the lies, the boorishness, and the sound and fury standing for nothing have decided that democracy with the big “D” is for suckers if they have to share it with Black people. If they have to think about women and their health and welfare? Who needs it? The infirm, the disabled? Tough break but take a hike. Those who are LGBTQIA? Go back to hiding in dark alleys.
The blame game is already underway, but don’t be fooled. Media pundits and some networks and websites will go full Captain Louis Renault from Casablanca — “round up the usual suspects!” Because that’s what drove a good deal of people to choose Trump at the ballot box. The usual suspects were the lies told about the economy to not look at corporate greed. All those ads screaming about migrants swarming the Southern border, but no one questioning how Elon Musk could boldly admit he broke immigration laws to come here.
Grievance and hate was the entirety of Trump’s policy, he told everyone as much during this whole campaign. Everything to hide the fact that a chunk of this…
