re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter

My film group met Wednesday night to discuss “Death of Stalin”, a very black comedy banned in Russia. Certain members who were in a Northwestern University extension program reported that the class unanimously expressed their distaste and contempt for Trump. They assumed that Trump will be history and our nation will return to its “normal” operation, probably in 2020. They thought of him as a buffoon.

I am torn between the doom-and-gloomers who preach we will not recover from the damage he has done and that the GOP attacks on our institutions have fatally damaged us and the optimists who believe that there will be a blue wave in 2018, that in fact the Trump interlude will inflict permanent damage on the Republican brand, and our country will emerge stronger because we have looked into the abyss and rejected it.

Side note: I really enjoyed “Death of Stalin.” I took my 14yo. He was less certain about the humor, but enjoyed it anyway.