I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future
About a year ago, at the start of the Trump 2.0 regime, a woman was about to pass me on the sidewalk and then stopped, turned toward me and almost shouted: “It’s a fucking nightmare!”
It has been a “fucking nightmare”.
But sometimes a nation needs a nightmare before it can fully awaken to long-simmering crises.
Martin Luther King Jr mobilized the nation against racial injustice by making sure almost everyone in the United States saw its horrors – on the nightly news, watching peaceful Black people getting clubbed and arrested for exercising their rights.
