I wrote the piece below for In These Times in January 2016, when Trump came to Burlington, VT, on a campaign stop.
Just like the fascist shitshow described 90 years ago by Sinclair Lewis in "It Can't Happen Here," also in Vermont. I think they took that book as a script. It is happening here just as Lewis portrayed.
While you were, "watching blood dry," the audience, "swallowed the red meat." You are good. (By the way, I had to look up "simulacrum.")
Thank you.
All you wrote then was true. And, yet, here we are today.
It's a damn shame, all right.
A countdown!
Excellent!
A daily reminder it won't last forever.
I'll be reading the Dickens library in the meanwhile...
and helping locally with the pain as it arises.
Thank you, Terry!
Terry, BRILLIANT!!! This should be made available outside of the Opposable community!!!
Thanks, Tom. I am happy to have you pass it on.
Thank you. It is vital that we never forget! And then, there is this: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-19-2025?r=3tul2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Thank you, John. And I am glad to see HCR back in form, now that she is exposing Trump rather than supporting Biden.
Bless you! You go,Terry!
No comment. You said it all!
Only getting started.
A toss up. Do I feel like crying, laughing or throwing up? 😵💫 🤢 🤮
Great piece! I didn’t live here back in 2016, so the VT visit was not on my radar. Thank you.
Thanks. i kinda doubt he will be back here.
Just like the fascist shitshow described 90 years ago by Sinclair Lewis in "It Can't Happen Here," also in Vermont. I think they took that book as a script. It is happening here just as Lewis portrayed.
While you were, "watching blood dry," the audience, "swallowed the red meat." You are good. (By the way, I had to look up "simulacrum.")
Thank you.
All you wrote then was true. And, yet, here we are today.
It's a damn shame, all right.
A countdown!
Excellent!
A daily reminder it won't last forever.
I'll be reading the Dickens library in the meanwhile...
and helping locally with the pain as it arises.
Thank you, Terry!
Terry, BRILLIANT!!! This should be made available outside of the Opposable community!!!
Thanks, Tom. I am happy to have you pass it on.
Thank you. It is vital that we never forget! And then, there is this: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-19-2025?r=3tul2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Thank you, John. And I am glad to see HCR back in form, now that she is exposing Trump rather than supporting Biden.
Bless you! You go,Terry!
No comment. You said it all!
Only getting started.
A toss up. Do I feel like crying, laughing or throwing up? 😵💫 🤢 🤮
Great piece! I didn’t live here back in 2016, so the VT visit was not on my radar. Thank you.
Thanks. i kinda doubt he will be back here.