A.R. Moxon offers an excerpt from a chapter of his new book Very Fine People, to be published on June 25. He asks what we'll do if we manage temporarily to halt the advance of Trump's party. The problem is,
"We’ve learned things about ourselves, and our country, and our friends and neighbors, and our systems of administration and authority, that we can never un-know."
"We now know who will look the other way, and what they’ll look the other way for. We know who will find reasons to accept unacceptable things, or become confused about obvious truths and obvious lies. We know now what people will stand for. We know now what people will cheer for. When the chips are down, you find out what people are like when the chips are down. And then you know."
"We now know that, even though Trump is a disruption to the status quo in some ways, he isn’t only a disruption to the status quo. In many ways, he is a part of that status quo’s inevitable progression. He’s the result you can expect to see, in a society which believes that we have no shared society beyond individual desire, that life must be earned, that profit is how you earn it, and that violence redeems."
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