by Thomas S. Harrington, via Common Dreams
I would love to share, my liberal friend, in your sense of incredulity about the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of United States. I would love to stand with you in the sense of woundedness that, while certainly painful up front, carries with it the secondary compensation of a warm and nurturing solidarity. I would love to sit with you and fulminate in righteous anger about the unparalleled vulgarity and cruelty of Trump and his followers.
As much as I’d like to do these things, I won’t. Why?
Because I know you, perhaps better than you even dare to know yourself. I know you well because I have watched you with great and detailed care over the last three decades and have learned, sadly, that you are as much if not more about image and self-regard as any of the laudable…
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CraigM350 
Obama was a bit like Blair; there’s so much more he could’ve done in the first couple of years of his presidency yet he stood by and let the lunatics get on with it, making a mess with foreign policy and, healthcare aside, not doing much on the home front. Will Trump do any better? He talks the talk but I fear he will resign in frustration within 2 years, unable to get his own way.
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