As folks who read this blog may know, my Erudite Partner is a regular contributor to the little lefty opinion syndication service, Tom Dispatch. Today he offers her latest commentary on the condition of our condition is in: Trump is Bad at Running the Country But Sometimes That’s Good for Him.
When Tom releases one of her articles, Tom writes his own introduction. Today's Tom commentary is something I want to offer for itself. Here's Tom:
Honestly, who could believe it, if — that is — we weren’t actually living through it? And maybe even then?
A plea scratched on a bench in immigration court ... Free my Uncle! I mean, once upon a time, Donald Trump would have been unimaginable as president (or do I mean king, emperor, or simply madman?) of the United States. Hey, you know, the guy who can only imagine White South Africans and right-wing (if not absolutely fascistic) Europeans as immigrants to this country and certainly not anyone from “shithole countries”!
I’d hate to tell my grandfather, who arrived here as a teenager on a ship in the early 1890s with the equivalent of 50 cents in his pocket and, though an impoverished Jewish kid from (now embattled) Lviv, was allowed to stay. ...
Rebecca goes on to explain what she learned in another authoritarian regime and what she is learning accompanying immigrants to their ordeals with Donald Trump's immigration court non-system. Read all about it.
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