There’s still a couple months left until November 8th’s results start bearing “fruit”; unfortunately, what kind of tree it will be nobody can say. I hate to start this blog by re-litigating the arguments that have been flooding Facebook for weeks now – whose fault this is, what to do now, is it okay to riot, what kind of harm can this fool possibly do in four years… perhaps most importantly, is this the dawn of a second Fascist wave (if you’re paying attention to Europe, very possibly)?
So far, Trump has been… well, Trump. He’s altered his transition team repeatedly, first by ejecting embarrassingly loyal lapdog Chris Christie. He’s backpedaled repeatedly on promises to his base, occasionally multiple times in a single interview. His policy shop… never quite existed. He also continues to juggle cabinet hopefuls; in fact, it seems that the only firm choice he’s made is Steve “Everything’s Alt Right” Bannon – a terrifying choice for any post, but particularly for Chief Strategist – a position that will guide White House policy for at least the next four years.
In short, if you don’t know Steve Bannon, you don’t yet know how truly, completely fucked we could be. Well, not myself, per se – being an upper middle class white male has always had its advantages, I just didn’t expect to see them to expand when the arc of history supposedly bends towards the progressive – and I don’t view it as a good thing.
Neither should you – regardless of skin color, religion, class, or sexual orientation. This can either be the last gasp of a dying White Nationalist underground, or the death of Multiculturalism as we know it.
For now, we’ll have to wait and see.
The Decline 