Sunday Reflection: Laughingstock

"A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughingstock of the world."  Henry David Thoreau, from his "Slavery In Massachusetts" essay.

The Trump regime has become not only a laughingstock with it's buffoonish leader, but a symbol of corruption and cruelty. Putting immigrant kids in cages, ignoring the threat of COVID-19, undermining affordable health care for millions, currying favor of despotic and hostile regimes while distancing our democratic allies, and so much more all are part of the picture that the world is seeing and recoiling from.