I have never been so depressed about the way the world is going. For most of my life I had thought things were, on the whole, getting better. Or, if there were still plenty of shit things going on, I was still hopeful that they could be cleaned up. Now I genuinely fear a looming darkness.
Trump is utterly obnoxious. I don’t see how it is possible to disagree with that charge. But the point is he just won an election where he won the popular vote and he is hugely popular with a majority of Americans. How did that happen? If the Western world is to get back on track then that question needs serious attention.
We can indulge our mutual loathing of the orange blimp or we can ask what it is he offered to the US voter that the Democrats didn’t. I suspect, in part, it was a gut reaction to the smug, self-satisfied liberal elites who have been doing quite nicely out the US economy, and have ignored the real concerns of working class citizens. The irony is that Democrats, rather than Republicans should have been the natural self-interested choice of this sector. Where are the Democrats now? Does Kamala Harris still exist?
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