How Could I Forget Jules Feiffer?*

Funny how the best comments/observations on American politics are from people of my childhood. People like Molly Ivins or Jules Feiffer. I look at that cartoon above, and I think of Trump losing (again) in the Supreme Court. But Feiffer is right: Richard Nixon was us. Now Trump is us.

Mostly because of Nixon. We are all Nixon. We were all Nixon. The truth of America as a “shining city on a hill” starts with that recognition.

The defense of Nixon after Watergate was by and large the defense of the office of the President. Or, more accurately, the idea of the office of the President. That was easily identified with God. Now it’s just identified with “us.” “Us” being the right people, not all those other people. The “us” who identify themselves with God; or probably more accurately, as God. The racism now is even more pronounced than it was in 1974. So that’s different.

Can we prosecute Trump? Or is a POTUS, in office or out, the 800 lb. gorilla no one can mess with? 🦍 Gotta have unity, ya know! All the politicians and pundits say so. Wouldn’t want to tear the country apart; or even be called the ones who did. Responsibility is a terrible burden. Better somebody else should carry it.

So it’s 1…2…3…what are we fightin’ for?

Our belief in Santa Claus? 🎅 

*with thanks to rustypickup