I hereby demand. Here’s what I believe, in the immediate reverberation of this chilling little tweet. America has now taken the first steps down an old and well-travelled road that wends its way toward coups, assassinations, the imposition of authoritarian rule, and civil war. They may yet reverse course, but it’s hard to quell the horror that they could actually have started down this path, as if stumbling drunk towards a buzz saw. The Trump contagion should have long since provoked a violent immune response. That it has not, and likely will not, is testament to the level of corruption … Continue reading Crossing the Rubicon