politics

The truth is, I don’t want to talk much about politics either.

Things are not going well...

It's giving 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.'

As the scope of the incoming Trump Administration becomes clear, I want to remind you that two things can be true at the same time: The second Trump Administration will be an absolute calamity, an unmaking of the 20ᵗʰ century, a loss to democracy and autonomy like we have never witnessed; and we will survive it anyway.

It has been a long, bruising, and terrible election season, and with Thanksgiving  and the winter holidays right behind it, there is a temptation to set it all aside and find ways to reach commonalities with our families and loved ones.

So far, the incoming Trump Administration has asked a possible sex trafficker to enforce federal law, a quack doctor to oversee healthcare systems, a wrestling executive to administer education, and a man who wants to abolish the income tax to run the most powerful 21st century economy.

OK, I’ll admit that even though it is my job to make sense of politics, to gather thoughts about our government and the problems it’s designed to solve, I have been avoiding the news as much as anyone else since last week.