Like so many others on the 6th November, I felt flattened by the election results. Unlike many others I did not experience my hopes as being crushed. I was astonished, for example to listen to a post-election interview of Bob Woodward here in Australia. Throughout the interview, he simply refused to fully face the darkness that was staring at him and us. He clung to what he calls his Mid-Western hope. When pressed for empirical evidence or anything at all that would support his hope, he could only meekly aver “I have to hope”. Meanwhile others in the mass media circuit are gathering steam for a more robust guerrilla warfare to come. They seem to sense the enormity of the Trump peril although the focus is mostly limited to the American political theatre of war—threat to democracy, rational world order etc.
For all these worthy efforts to fight for what we politically value, the terminal effects of a far deeper and more crucial peril are upon us now, almost unnoticed, or unspoken in the public sphere…
Also see my blog post: Trump the Saviour 2018
