Surviving Trump

I HAVE A RIGHT WING FRENIMY who says things are going really well. He is referring, believe it or not, to the Trump administration, which is at war with the news media for reporting that Trump's organization kept in touch with Russian spy agencies during the presidential campaign, riddled with an amazing amount of corruption, and which is inspiring more resistance and protest by the day, but which has managed to install a right wing cabinet and engage in some loud, tough talk. Conservatives are emboldened by Trump's loud nationalistic bombast, particularly the racist, religiously zealous ones. Several billion U.S. dollars will be spent patching together some more fencing on the Mexican border, and adding cameras and boots on the ground, allowing Trump to claim victory in his building of his great wall. What a laugh. Each state will now have to decide for itself whether transgender people can use the restroom of their choice, or the one corresponding to their birth certificate. Just a quick hint: all transgenders want to use the restroom corresponding to their gender self identification, which really angers right wingers, who would prefer that transgenders either go away, or stop whimsically changing their gender. Likewise, right wingers would prefer to ignore climate change, by pretending that it has nothing to do with human activity, and that therefore there is nothing we can do about it. Might as well get rid of all environmental protection regulations, and let corporations do whatever they want in pursuit of profit and prosperity for all. What a bold, constructive, realistic attitude. The only remaining question is how long the Trumpian societal illness will endure until its either thrown into history's dustbin, or the world comes to an end.