Make America Hate Again: We Must Avoid Horror Show Of Another Trump Presidency

By Dr. Tom H. Hastings Photos: YouTube Screenshots I’m writing this bit three days before the 2024 US election. Jess Bidgood just noted in the New York Times[1] that:  When Trump won the presidency in 2016, the Me Too movement had not yet forced a reckoning among women about the way sexism shaped their lives. The Dobbs decision had not turned women’s right to an abortion into a matter of geographic privilege, nor had it imprinted searing stories about those denied care into the national consciousness. It is this logic that persuades me that the polls are wrong; Harris will sweep the swing states and run the table. Mark my words.& Also know how erroneous I have been in the past about these matters. Perhaps I have made a career out of overestimating the decency of the American people, my people, my fellow citizens, co-workers, and neighbors… Nah. I got one thing right every time; where I live I understand. What I have come to realize is that the US is not some extension of where I live. I’ve lived in Minnesota, Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Oregon. Where I’ve lived and when I’ve lived there the voters–my people, my country...