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Salon
Salon
Politics
Chauncey DeVega

Trump's CNN town hall is rigged

"May you live in interesting times." Those words are not a blessing, they are a curse.

The Trumpocene and this fascist fever dream most certainly qualify as those "interesting times." Trump and his MAGA movement have cursed the American people and their country by empowering even more racism, white supremacy, bigotry, hatred, death, suffering, sickness, violence, fascism, authoritarianism, conspiracism, greed, anti-intellectualism, misery, loneliness, religious fanaticism, collective unwellness and pathology and other great troubles and problems. Of course, Trump's MAGA cultists believe such a horrible state of affairs is a type of blessing.

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