Monday, December 30, 2024

This Is Trump’s America Now

2024 was the year of fear.

People of intelligence, common sense and empathy were terribly afraid of what was going to happen.  

That the United States would move away from compassion and democracy, that we would embrace cruelty and fascism.  

Surely we would not.

I tried to assure my wife Andrea that 2024 was not 2016 and the odds of Donald Trump returning to the Presidency were NOT in his favor. 

I really did not mean to lie to her. I really though the math added up.  

Mathematics is a science of facts.

I was once more foolishly bringing facts to a fight about feelings.

And here we were again.

We're two days away from a New Year. 

A New Year usually represents a sense of a new beginning, a fresh start, a new hope for the future.

Forgive me if I'm not feeling any of that right now.

This is Trump's America now. 

If you don't believe me, consider the case of Patrick Thomas Egan, a 39 year old who was arrested Dec. 18 in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Egan followed KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex to his TV station where Egan accosted and violently attacked Alex. 

Before that Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and said: “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”

Egan followed Alex to the TV station, demanded he provide identification.  Egan put Alex in a headlock and began to strangle him.  

Ja’Ronn Alex is a native of Detroit. His ethnic background is Pacific Islander making his skin tone sufficiently brown to elicit suspicion from Patrick Thomas Egan.  

What more do you need?

This is Trump's America now. 

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