The Chinese have a saying: may you live in interesting
times. It's intended as a curse. The rabbis say much the same thing when they
pray: May Moshiach
come and may I not live to see it.
Details about Moshiach
aside, there can be no doubt that we are living in dread & interesting
times, to wit, among other things: the Republican Party is fracturing.
Lest we yell in triumph, remember this is precisely as Steve Bannon would want it.
Bannon wants to purge the Republican Party not only of
moderates — put paid — but even tried and true right-wingers. He wants to
replace them all with zealots and fanatics of the Trump persuasion, committed
to crushing the media and civil liberties in favor of a white supremacist mass
movement, not averse to some neo-Nazi impetus.
Emphasis here on movement, emphasis on crushing and on Trump
as supreme leader and enabler (or as Milo Yiannopoulos calls him "Big
Daddy.")
It's time to read some history, and not only American
history. Think about interesting times in Europe, while you're at it.
Though the parallels are necessarily inexact and though we
have a long way to go before the victory of totalitarianism in the United
States, it's worth knowing that Bannon's goal is nothing less than following/guiding
Trump into the triumph of Fascism with American Characteristics.
We are living in interesting times. As for me, I see no
signs of Moshiach,
though some of his supporters think Trump fits the bill.
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