The hallucinatory effect of a reality-show presidency* is dispersing like a foul, smoky mist over a

Love this article.

It gives me hope---however small it is something to cling to.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a21775485/migrant-child-crisis-trump-presidency/


ptimism may be illusory, but it’s all we have at this point, so, when it stirs, anywhere, it’s worthy of nurture and support. Over the past week, ever since the administration*’s crimes against humanity along the southern border were revealed, there became an edge to the political opposition that has not been there through all the marches and the rhetoric that have attended this government since the president* was inaugurated. Up until now, all of the #Resistance has contained a barely acknowledged undercurrent of futility. It was not that the opposition was empty. It was that it generally broke like a wave on a seawall when it collided with the immutable fact that the president*’s party controlled every lever of political power at the federal level, as well as a great number of them out in the states, too.