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Commentary
President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.
CNN, January 21, 2025
One of the few comforting thoughts these days is that we’re witnessing the death throes of a dying beast.
Within a week of the recent inauguration, I wrote the following:
I’m seeing first-hand evidence that foreigners, here in the United States on a thoroughly LEGAL basis, are now hiding. One can say they’re being unreasonable. But imagine what it would be like to have to carry YOUR proof of citizenship or legal status with you everywhere and at all times lest some over-zealous authority arrest you and detain you until… until… until what?!. Wouldn’t happen to you? Why? Because of your skin color?
Have you paid attention to how the recently-installed administration has appealed to fear of the foreigner, of the stranger? How have foreigners–especially people of color–been characterized? (answer: in RIDICULOUS, OUTLANDISH WAYS that appeal to people’s unreasonable fear). Fear breeds brutality breeds fear.
