QOTD: One Year In

 

"January 20 will mark one year since the United States embarked on a flight toward the abyss: Donald Trump’s second coming. Twelve months of dizzying authoritarianism followed that inauguration. The crossing of one unthinkable Rubicon after another without time to look back. A year in which the entire world has witnessed the deterioration — perhaps irreparable — of one of its oldest democracies, always at the mercy of the unpredictable mind of the most powerful man on the planet, who also happens to be one of the most capricious.

"The runaway carousel of Trump’s second presidency has hurtled along in what often seemed like an eternity, lurching from one mood swing to another, threats, a climate of vengeance, exaggerations and lies, insults and tasteless jokes, almost always posted on Truth, his social media platform. And it has done so with only one certainty: as he himself admitted last week in an interview, the only limit to his power at the helm of an empire threatened by China is not institutional decorum or the manners that used to govern traditional politics, but his own 'morality'"... -- Iker Seisdedos, EL PAÍS, summarizing the first year of the second Malignant Fascist administration's "flight toward the abyss."  Seisdedos fleshes out his look back at the last year with every significant example of the Malignant Fascist's power mad descent into insanity, unencumbered by concerns about accountability or checks on his power from his cowardly supine cult/ party. 

BONUS:  Masha Gessen takes stock of where we are and what we need to do.