Besides Real Life (selling house, moving, hurricane, dying cat) the major reason I haven't been posting here is I discovered Twitter, which seemed the proper medium to fight our Twitter Duce.
So you can catch me there for now. I might get back to blog posting if time and mood allows.

In any case, continue to Resist. We have won some victories, but the real trials are yet to come. Our democracy remains balanced on the point of the Washington Monument  (for those who recall 7 Days in May).

Anti-semitism is at the heart of the white nationalist movement. Go. Read.

http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism/#sthash.cxzO3Hw4.b2hYTT3D.dpbs

So to those who thought it unfair to bring up Hitler in relation to Trump, your apology is accepted.

I deleted a series of comments assuring me that Trump is at worst just another bad President and that comparisons to the Nazis are, in effect, silly. I disagree, but it isn't a productive debate: anyone who doesn't recognize the danger isn't going to (at least until it is too late). As for myself, I agree with David Frum (not something I would have expected a decade ago): if our democracy and indeed our civilization survives Trump, it won't be because the threat wasn't real, but because enough people recognized the danger and acted to meet it.

So, the GOP is now the party of Russian subversion:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/18/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-putin-215387

and defended by the idiot Left (see The Nation, or for that matter Bernie, who says we mustn't "rush to judgement" over the obvious).

Nationalists on the Right allying with Socialists on the Left against liberal democracy. Perhaps we can call them National Socialists.

Meanwhile The New Yorker runs a story on how Trump's rural voters support him because the Left (by which they mean not the Left  but supporters of liberal democracy, though they are too ignorant to know it) hates Trump for the same reason we hate them.

To which I reply, if you say so. If you share Trump's racism, sexism, bigotry, greed, corrupt authoritarianism and willful ignorance, then yes, I hate you and for the exact same reasons.

And you deserve it.

First, been busy selling our house (we have accepted an offer, but haven't closed, so there is always the chance the deal will fall through, which has kept me away from blogging. Apologies to my vast audience of readers.

Reading another book on the Holocaust (a subject one cannot study too much) and I'm struck again about the comparison between Germany then and the US now. Not so much between Trump and Hitler, or the GOP and the Nazis as (again) between how much and how little it took our respective voters to leap off a cliff. Germany, a nation with no democratic traditions, took a lost world war, multiple revolutions, hyper-inflation, depression, and international humiliation to turn to extremists (mostly on the Right but also the Left). The US, a country with hundreds of years of democratic tradition, took a severe but hardly historic economic downturn, some mediocre leadership, and the horror of a black man being succeeded by a woman to turn to extremists (again, mostly on the Right but also on the Left). American exceptionalism indeed.

Or perhaps not: the US and UK seemed locked together in mutual stupidity lately. Isolationism, inequality, a turn to the extremes.

Liberals (again, I use the term in the American sense) in both countries are fighting back, and perhaps we will prevail, but we shouldn't be here to begin with. And in both nations, the press, and especially but hardly only the Murdoch press, bears a large share of the blame. Still in the bad journalism contest the US wins pretty handily. The BBC isn't CNN or MSNBC, and the Guardian isn't the NY Times.

But again, there are intelligent voices. Here is one over there worth listening too that has obvious relevance here:

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/politics-needless-death/#

Go. Read.

Some random thoughts in response to the hurricane of news lately:

Roger Ailes died 50 years too late.

Dems should run the film of Trump doing a curtsy to the Saudi king in every ad for every race forever.

Mike Pence is in this up to his eyeballs, though the thought of Paul Ryan in the WH prevents that from being as amusing as it could be.

Bernie, on the day before the special prosecutor was appointed, rushed to agree it isn't time to talk of impeachment yet. He is right-January 20 was the time to start talking about impeachment. What a fraud, and his cultists are as deluded (if not as evil) as Trump's.

Speaking of which, anyone who voted for Trump has demonstrated they are incapable of taking their duty as citizens seriously, and should never be allowed to vote again. I suggest an Amendment to the Constitution to that effect. :)

The American Fascist Party (aka the GOP) will do nothing to oust the traitor in the WH. Tax cuts for the rich and preserving their own power matter more than the United States to them. The only thing that can save America at this point is a Democratic tidal wave in 2018. But among other things that requires Bernie and his cultists, since they won't lead on Trump's treason, to at least get the fuck out of the way.

All isn't lost yet, but there is no room for error. And no room for compromise: Trump MUST be removed from power. And that requires a Democratic Congress. Give money if you can. Give time if you can. But above all-VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

Rick Perlstein wakes up to the racist reactionary proto-fascist foundation of the American Right:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/magazine/i-thought-i-understood-the-american-right-trump-proved-me-wrong.html?_r=0

Better late than never. To be fair, while I was always aware of that foundation, Obama's two elections briefly convinced me that the Left was correct that it was economic populism and not racism/sexism/bigotry that was the new driver of national discontent, but unlike Bernie and his bots, Trump's campaign very quickly convinced me to go back to my original view of the GOP as the latest avatar of hate and ignorance going back to the Know-Nothings, the CSA, the Klan, the fans of Mac the Knife and the communist witch hunts, and the Dixiecrats.

There are some  Trump voters who are more stupid than evil, but by and large, the Right represents the dark forces of the anti-Enlightenment.

A bit more on Syria.

A lot of Obama fans are saying he "learned from Libya" not to get involved in Syria. There are some problems with that.

First, Syria isn't Libya, just as Libya isn't Iraq, just as Iraq wasn't Afghanistan. This habit of trying to generalize and draw "rules" is always a mistake, as well as lazy, ignoring that even Muslim dictatorships are different, as are the circumstances that might call for-or against-military action. Every case needs to be examined on its own merits, not by comparison with other places and situations which may be very different. (For that matter Korea and Vietnam were very different as well.)

Second, Obama didn't learn from Libya. In both Syria and Libya he acted belatedly and in split-the-difference fashion, without a long term strategy. In Libya, the results may have been bad for Libyans, but Syria has been a disaster for the West, destabilizing Europe, helping to bring Trump to power and helping Putin. That was because Obama didn't stay out of Syria, he did just enough to prolong the war.  That suggests, though it doesn't prove, that Hillary was right in wanting to do more immediately to help the rebels (not all of whom at the time were anti-Western). Or that Obama should have actually done nothing, rather than drawing red lines he then ignored.

None of which means supporting Trump now: Trump isn't Obama, much less Hillary. He is an evil ignorant clown and nothing he touches can be expected to turn out for the good, never mind the best. But I oppose Trump, without embracing Obama's policies, or adopting the view that US military intervention is always wrong. As I said, case by case, situation by situation.

A military response to Assad's latest war crime is not in itself unreasonable, if carried out by a legitimate administration with care and thought, after preparing both Congress and the public. But this administration is neither legitimate or rational, and no effort was made to consult with Congress or outline plans to the public. What this really is is an attempt to boost Trump's approval ratings with the usual "rally round the flag" effect, and in the short run, with the help of an always incompetent MSM, I expect it will do just that.

But the bounce won't last, and this is a card with limited ability to replay.

Interesting take on the Alt-Left in the MSM:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/21/1645774/-Alt-Left-and-the-Comey-Hearing

The real story, of course, is the American Fascist Party trying to cover up for acts of treason, but it is odd that anyone is even asking if there was collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign given that Trump  CALLED ON PUTIN TO OBTAIN AND LEAK DEM E-MAILS. That was an act of collusion right there in public that the MSM chose to treat as just another crazy thing Trump says. 

But the AFP (formerly the GOP) doesn't care, as long as Trump agrees to let them pursue their Social Darwinism in the name of "freedom." Again, the idiots who voted for them (or refused to vote for HRC) deserve whatever they get, it is the rest of us I worry about.

Of course the pro-Putin Left is a problem only because they get in the way of dealing with the REAL problem, the American Fascist Party (aka GOP).

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/03/post-trump-republican-life-raft-filling?platform=hootsuite

Taking apart the pro-Putin Left:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/why-the-alt-left-is-a-problem

I keep coming back to the fact that the most discouraging thing about the Trump debacle is that the choice between Hillary and Trump was the most obvious choice in the entire history of elections going back to ancient Greece, and yet 90+% of those on the Right and a not insignificant number on the Left couldn't manage to get it right.  No matter what happens in the future, it is clear nearly half of voters can't be trusted to manage the political version of adding 1 plus 1 without getting 47 as the answer.

Out Like Flynn.

One down, many many more to go. This battle isn't won until the American Fascist Party of Trump and Ryan is booted from power. Long road ahead: stay angry but pace yourselves.

Thing to remember is that ALL Trump supporters (and polls indicate that includes 90% of the GOP) are evil, stupid, or insane, or some varying combination of those three.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/

Trump will never be "normal." But the GOP will do their best to demand we make it so. Resist.

Reading the excellent short novel  The Kaiser's Last Kiss by Alan Judd, in which the exiled monarch meets his Nazi successors, the Kaiser is given a speech that could apply very well not only to Trump and Bannon etc., but to most Republicans at this point:'

"Do you not see that these men are incomplete? They are shells with undeveloped souls rattling around inside. They will betray anything and everything because they believe only in themselves, but know not themselves. They are madmen. And that is why they do not know what other people are, which is why they can do terrible things and not see why it matters. And so they cannot see how completely they, in turn, will be destroyed, our nation with them. They are men of dreams who lead us sleepwalking into a nightmare."

If it is about economic anxiety, how come I mostly see Trump stickers on expensive cars?

https://newrepublic.com/article/140377/trump-promised-white-supremacy-now-hes-delivering-it?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=sharebtn

I'm siding with Max Boot, which is something I never would have predicted a decade ago. But Trump has overthrown a lot of things we took for granted.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-trump-outlies-obama-20170131-story.html

The continuing demonstrations are heartening, but ultimately the American Fascist Party must be defeated at the polls. If we don't elect more Dems, at all levels, all the demonstrations in the world won't save us. And 2018 will be here sooner than it seems.

If only it does end in their suicide, it might be worth it. But we can't count on that:

https://newrepublic.com/article/140169/trump-republicans-suicide-mission-together

There is no middle ground: either the fascists are defeated, or America beco9mes fascist. Compromise is surrender to fascism.

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/radical-right-runs-america-democrats-still

The way our government is organized by the Constitution makes two, not three or more (or no) political parties inevitable. If you don't like the choice between the Dems and the GOP, your only alternative is to replace one of them, but if the Greens or the Socialists or whatever fringe party was going to replace one of them, there would be signs of real progress towards that end. There isn't. So for the foreseeable future you have two choices and one of those is fascist and one isn't. Which means you have no choice at all. You don't have to like it, but you better learn to accept it.

Which means, first of all, no Independents. Pick a fucking side: are you pro or anti fascist? Those are the choices so make a damn decision. If you are anti-fascist thn register as a Dem. We don't have the margin of error for the affectation of voting for the Dems while pretending to be above them. Before he let his ego get in the way and helped give us Trump by baselessly attacking HRC's character for months after it was clear she was going to be the nominee, Bernie actually did help move the Dems left. But he did it during the brief period he acted like an adult and registered as a Dem.

Next, vote party, not person. The quality of individual Dems is far less important than their numbers. ANY Dem is better than ANY alternative. Yes, we want better Dems as well as more Dems, but that's what  primaries are for, and if your better Dem loses in the primary, swallow your pride and vote for the winner anyway. The alternative isn't  a red Revolution but a brown one. Look at the KPD in Germany in the 30s and don't make the same deadly mistake.

Finally, you aren't a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of the United States. We live in a world of nation states whether you like it or not. If you don't want to be a US citizen, move elsewhere. While you are here, you can't expect pols to put the interests of the Palestinians (or the Israelis) or the people of Tibet or Central America ahead of those of the US. What you CAN expect is that they will take into account the interests of the rest of the world (our allies ahead of those who wish us harm) because pols who don't recognize the need for enlightened national self-interest abroad are  not patriots, but nationalists. The two are not the same, as the Trump government will demonstrate daily for the next four years.

Oh, and if you are someone still going around saying Love Trumps Hate, it often doesn't. And Nazis would have wiped the non-violent resistance movements of the 20th Century off the face of the earth with not a moment's hesitation, leaving not a trace behind. Non-violence doesn't work against those who worship Might as the ultimate good. Which is not to say I'm advocating trading politics for violence against the American Fascist Party (formerly known as the GOP). We aren't without better alternatives and anyway, in a civil war we might well lose.

Otoh, punching Nazis is ethically justified, so you just have to decide if the opportunity arises if it is the smart thing to do.

Al Giordano ‏@AlGiordano:
 

"To the purity "progressives" growing frustrated that millions increasingly blame you for Trump's presidency: It's not going to stop."

It certainly won't stop here. Having helped give us W, in 2000, they learned nothing from that, and helped us give us Trump (who will make W. look like Lincoln in comparison) this time, all in fantasy pursuit of the Revolution, whatever its merits in theory, the bulk of the American people reject.  Proving themselves ultimately nihilists in the guise of idealists: if they can't have their fantasy, they are fine with blowing up the world.

Under Trump, perhaps literally.

Given about 45,000 votes put Trump where he is, everything mattered, but basically 98% of Trump voters are never going to vote for a Democrat. so we don't have to play nice with them. The distinction "they aren't racists or sexists but racism and sexism wasn't a deal-breaker for them" is a false distinction. If racism and sexism aren't deal-breakers for you, you are racist and sexist. 

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/philip-roth-e-mails-on-trump

The real plot against America.

Happy as I am about the nationwide Women's Marches, I have to point out that if they been held for Hillary before the election, they would have completely changed the MSM narrative and the marches wouldn't be needed now. Apparently the threat of Trump wasn't enough.

Let's not make that mistake again, shall we?

History of the "Alt-Right."

http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/01/20/ctrl-alt-delete-report-on-the-alternative-right/#sthash.B2RB2ghs.tUIzlg10.dpbs

Or as I call them, New Coke Fascists.

It was a coup:

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/01/the-lives-of-others

Also, I see a Nazi got punched and we are supposed to be horrified. Sorry, Nazis should always be punched. At a minimum.

"Ex-Bush speechwriter: Trump is “the worst human being ever to enter the presidency & I include all the slaveholders." "

Otoh, for a fascist Leader he isn't the worst. So far.

Go Read. (I'll wait.):

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n02/rebecca-solnit/from-lying-to-leering

He is the president of sexists,racists, bigots, greed-heads and fools. But for those of us who aren't Deplorable, he will NEVER be a legitimate occupant of the WH. Sid Blumenthal captures why:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/five-ways-trump-illegitimate/

I would just add if a majority of Americans had supported this intellectual and ethical void, it still wouldn't have made him legitimate. It would just have made the US illegitimate.

The racism of the Right is obvious. But sexism, even more than racism, gave us Trump, and it is found on the Left as well as the Right. Hillary's biggest mistake was not having a penis.

http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a42042/putin-trump-and-julian-assange-sexism-politics/

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-music-donald-trump-cant-hear

Trump really is unpresidented.

1. David Frum ‏@davidfrum
2. In interview with the Times, Trump proposes dropping sanctions on Russia w/out any end to Russian war on Ukraine. It’s actually kind of hard to do justice to how alarming the Gove/UK Times interview with Trump is. Obviously the crazy statements have to be discounted by fact that Trump has not given them even 11 seconds thought before uttering them and that he’s perfectly capable of uttering exactly opposite (but still crazy in their own way) statements tomorrow, but bottom line is that the future of the free world is in the hands of somebody you would not hire to watch your dog.

   
   

   Yup.

   
   

A bit more about my political worldview, so you'll know where I'm coming from.

First, my worldview changes, as either the facts or my grasp of them changes. People who admire Bernie because his politics hasn't changed since the 60s are to my mind revealing more than they intend.

Having said that, my politics have always leaned left rather than right. (I flirted with an oposing view in my teens reading early George Will, until I noticed he tended to lie. Oddly the MSM that employs him still hasn't noticed.) But how far left, on what issues and in what way, has evolved.

Let me also note that I have never been a bleeding heart liberal, because my heart does not easily bleed. In fact by temperament I ought to be on the Right, since my tastes in culture are almost reactionary (I have never developed a fondness for that roll and rock music, and rap to me is just noise) and I generally prefer animals to people.

On the up side, my misanthropy has prevented me from being racist or avoidably sexist (some unavoidable sexism comes from being a straight male, as in a fondness for nude women on film) because I have too low a regard for our species to find distinctions based on color, gender, or cultural background worth making. No doubt my being a half-Jewish/half-Baptist non-believer also helped keep me from the temptations of religious bigotry: they are all fictions to me, and my concerns about Islamic extremism have everything to do with their actions, and not the particular fictions they believe.

At one time, like Bernie, I called myself a socialist, but I grew out of it when I realized that "democratic socialism" in the west was no longer meaningfully socialist, and that actual socialism had failed everywhere it was tried. Bernie isn't a socialist either, nor are Revolutions voted into power: he is just an extreme liberal with an unfortunate affectation based on a need to feel ethically superior to most Democrats.

I am not anti-Capitalism, as it has proven a remarkable tool for making stuff. But that is all it is, an economic tool, and those who turn it into a religion demented. It is in fact both a tool we can't do without out, and one that has to be kept within strict bounds. Just as a hammer is a good thing until you give it to a four-year old, capitalism is a good thing until you hand it over to capitalists. It needs to be kept under strict observation and control so that it builds rather than smashes everything in site.

"Creative destruction" tends to leave too much destruction, and besides regulation,  I support a strong social safety net, so that capitalism's losers can still leave decent lives. And the rich need to be heavily progressively taxed not just to fund that safety net, but because too much inequality is itself bad for democratic societies.

On foreign policy, I'm unwilling to support the dismantling of the American Empire until I'm sure it won't be replaced by something worse. And post-Vietnam (a war I opposed as a teen) the argument can be made the US caused as many deaths by not intervening in Rwanda or earlier in Yugoslavia or effectively in Syria as has been caused as our interventions in places we should have kept out of such as 2003 in Iraq. I opposed that war not because a monster like Saddam had any legitimacy but because it was obviously a stupid idea that could only cause us to fail in Afghanistan against the people who had harbored those who attacked us on 9/11. I'm not a pacifist, but military action is another dangerous tool that is justified only in extraordinary circumstances.

I also note the Isolationist Right and Left have long been connected: Gore Vidal, after all, was an America Firster, and never renounced that teenage romance.

On Presidents, my first vote was in Nov. 1976 for Carter, though in retrospect I think we would have been better off with Ford, who might have prevented RWR's takeover of the GOP in 1980, or at least his election. I do give RWR some credit for breaking from the Right in his late embrace of Gorbachev, but that's it. But the last Republican who deserved to win over a Democrat without indulging in such counterfactuals was Ike.

Bill Clinton was a mediocre President, but he was also constantly on the defensive, attacked not just by the GOP but by the MSM, and without much support from Dems in Congress. W. was a disaster, though Trump is going to make him look better in retrospect.

Obama was another mediocre President, who unlike Bill Clinton squandered a historic opportunity for liberal change. He promised not to give us a new New Deal and it was a promise he kept. And in Syria his unwillingess to either go in seriously or stay out, instead doing just enough to keep the war going, was a disaster not only for the Syrians but for the West, where the refugees have destablized European politics and provided an opening for Russia's fascist leader.

I believe Hillary would have been a better President than either her husband or Obama, but that, alas, is now a counterfactual as well. There is no question that Trump will be the worst one we've ever had.

As for Bernie: he would have lost without the FBI and FSB interventions that gave us Trump. The proof of that is that he couldn't come anywhere close to winning among the most liberal voting group in the country: voters in the Democratic primary.

Well that's enough for now on where I stand. Any specific questions, feel free to ask.

Reading Arkady Ostrovsky's excellent book The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev;s Freedom to Putin's War.

As it turns out, it not only does an excellent job of explaining the threat posed to the West by Putin, but also tells a lot about how the US is following the same path towards corrupt autocracy (and not just the obvious link of Putin's intervention in our election).

For example, consider this on the Yeltsin-era media oligrchs:

"They lacked the most important attribute of an elite-a sense of responsibility for, and historic consciousness of, their own country."

This is an apt description not only of our own media elites, but of elected Republicans, who almost without exception have surrendered to Trumpism. Or for that matter the generally well-off  promoters of the Bernie Cult with its fantasy of Revolution.

We are in deep trouble, beyond one man's obvious unfitness for office.

TinaDupuy:

OMG, what if the pee story *isn't* true and we're all defiling the good name of a pussy grabbing neo-Nazi Putin puppet conman!?!

Oh, and yes, I spelled my blog title wrong-something I realized a second after I clicked it. But, again, computer illiterate here. If anyone knows how I can fix it...

On those who gave us this catastrophe:

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/01/comey-and-the-media-threw-the-election-to-the-worst-president-ever


Btw, if anyone knows how I can make these links linky, so you don't have to cut and paste to use them, I'd appreciate letting me know. My computer skills range from slim to none.

There are people I respect who disagree, nevertheless, I still think "fascism" is the right word to describe the Trump-pest GOP. Populist, racist, sexist, nationalist, corrupt, authoritarian, consistently dishonest.

The biggest difference between Classic Coke Fascism and New Coke Fascism is the willingness to own the name, but that's a result of history not a real difference in  their worldview.

About the best we can hope for from them is that they are more the Duce's fascists than the Fuhrer's.

Otoh, Hitler never had nukes.

After my last post, I should note that Bernie has finally spoken out about Russia owning Trump. Better late than never.

And a reminder:

Roy Edroso

"It's important to remember that, in addition to his corruption and buffoonery, he is also a vicious psychopath."

I've said is a strange blend of the Third Reich and Being There, but we mustn't let the latter make us underestimate the former.

Why I'm not a Bernie fan:

https://medium.com/@ochinyere/bernie-sanders-is-the-biggest-loser-4c43b1feacfc#.1wcpnbxq5

A list of people worth following on Twitter (a sentence I once could never imagine writing, but then I couldn't imagine the Orange Fascist Buffoon in the WH either):

Armando at DKos

Strobe Talbott

Roy Edroso

Rebecca Traister

Eric Boehlert

Neeri Tanden

Simon Schama

Al Giordano

Peter Daou

Charles M. Blow

David Frum

Anne Applebaum

Sarah Kendzior

Paul Waldman

Norman Orstein

Joan Walsh

EJ Dionne

Brian Beutler

Bruce Bartlett

Paul Krugman

and in a lighter vein

Jen Kirkman

Joss Whedon

Andy Richter

Morgan Murphy

Mike Birbiglia

Quinn Cummings

Seth MacFarlane

The Deplorables

Trump voters are in fact Deplorable. Ignorance is one thing, willful ignorance something else. Decades of stewing inside a far-Right bubble has curdled sour milk into toxic cheese. Bernie may keep talking about winning over the white working class, but that can only be done at the expense of women and minorities. (And yes, 53% of white women voted for Trump, deciding that they were White more than they were Women.)

It took a great many things to give us Trump. This is a partial list:

A corrupt incompetent cowardly and sexist Mainstream Media (hereafter MSM).

The unjustified attacks on HRC's character by the Bernie campaign, which continued long after it was clear the choice was her or Trump.  Yes Bernie campaigned for her in the end, in a classic case of too little, too late.

The intervention of the Russians, through the demented clown Assange.

The virtual coup by the FBI.

Remove any one of those and Trump would be back in private life trying to avoid another bankruptcy. But none of that removes the responsibility of those who voted for Trump. And it was sexism and racism that motivated those voters.

Which is why I will feel no empathy when their support of Trump bites them on the ass. (They will blame it on the Dems anyway.)

Hence the name of this Blog. 
 

Two links that sum up my worldview just now:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-center-has-fallen-and-white-nationalism-is-filling-the-vacuum-beb0611dfe94#.ovbod1h1d

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_good_fight/2017/01/if_not_america_who_will_protect_the_liberal_world_order_in_the_trump_era.html

A little about me: 58 year-old writer and game designer (author of Crowns in the Gutter, a history of WWI) , New Deal Democrat, fan of Hillary Clinton (more than Bill, or for that matter, Obama), and enemy (with all decent people) of the American Fascist Party (formerly known as the GOP).

This will be a record of the horrors of the next four years, with celebrations of whatever victories over the bad guys we manage, and lots of links to others fighting the good fight.

More later-for now, I wish us all luck. We are going to need it.