In an article in the New Yorker entitled “Trump Days,” George Saunders reports on a number of Trump rallies and the violence that accompanies those rallies, often, but not always, instigated by Trump supporters.
Saunders concludes with these lines: “I’ve never before imagined America as fragile, as an experiment that could, within my very lifetime, fail. But I imagine it that way now.”
We have supposedly responsible people in Congress supporting a man they must know is completely unqualified to be President. Of course, those same members of Congress can’t even pass a bill to deny guns to terrorists or fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court or pass legislation to fight the Zika virus.
Even before Trump, our national experiment has been failing. Read the vicious letters on Obama in the Morning Call. Look at the gerrymandering. Look at campaign finance. Look at the attempts to rig elections by changing the rules on voting.
Trump did not emerge full-blown out of nowhere. We have a culture that glorifies violence, ignorance, and macho grandstanding. Trump has caught that wave.
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