This Country Seriously Needs To Get Through The Next Week

We realize American society’s got problems much bigger than that. But if U.S. citizens don’t hold fast now, we may be lost forever.

The President meanwhile seems to be feeling his way down two possible paths, after casting off the most obvious: unity and reconciliation through change. Because he’s not capable of any of that. And both of the directions the President seems possibly headed in are divisive and destructive.

And we don’t think Trump has any grand plan in mind. Evidence of that comes in his unceasing repetition even these days of all his usual campaign messages. His response to widespread protest, which wasn’t even really directly about him to begin with, is still largely improvisational. But his survival instincts have worked out for him in the past. And he’s surrounded by opportunists who will not hesitate to “help” the President shape his response in ways that could irrevocably reshape American society to be far more protective of people whom they adjudge to be “most American”, while using the full force of the military now to cast aside or push down people they consider antagonists and outsiders (or as Trump puts it: enemies and haters and “THUGS”), even though everybody we’re talking about is equally American, and so…