by Anonymous I am finding it incredibly difficult to believe that more than seventy-million adult Americans identified with and voted for Donald Trump in the last election. I will readily admit that Democrats have done precious little to help financially struggling American families, the bottom third or more of American households. But how could those same families have come to see Republicans and Trump as a viable alternative? As their champions? Trump and his MAGA sycophants haven’t a shred of empathy for those who voted for him. And those people will most certainly be the ones to suffer first and most when he takes office in less than a week and enacts the very policies he openly discussed during the campaign. What will they do when he abolishes Medicaid, guts Social Security and Medicare, privatizes the VA health system and cuts veterans’ benefits, attacks labor unions, sabotages public education, shutters the postal service, abandons regulations that promote clean air and water while slowing climate change, eradicates workplace safety regulations, and eliminates food stamps? What will the country do once he takes his meat cleaver to America’s already enfeebled democracy? What will happen to all of us when the oligarchs assume full control of every lever of power? This could spell the doom of the promise and shining myth of America. Desperation makes fools of us all.