Just posted a page on Andrew Sullivan’s long & somewhat meandering - but still interesting - screed on Trump as an “Extinction-Level Event” for democracy. There’s a lot in there - and yes, some of it is familiar by now, the tropes that are rapidly being worn out about how the American democratic process has failed ignorant white racists, how the media is all to blame for giving Trump too much TV coverage, etc. etc.

Still, it’s worth a read, if for no other reason than the research Sullivan has done to connect Plato with “It Can’t Happen Here.” (Sidenote: I didn’t realize that in the book, the anti-hero gets nominated in Cleveland).

Final graf:

For Trump is not just a wacky politician of the far right, or a riveting television spectacle, or a Twitter phenom and bizarre working-class hero. He is not just another candidate to be parsed and analyzed by TV pundits in the same breath as all the others. In terms of our liberal democracy and constitutional order, Trump is an extinction-level event. It’s long past time we started treating him as such.

Tell it to the BernieBros! Link to page: littlegreenfootballs.com