After watching Thursday night’s presidential debate, I needed to go for a walk to clear my head. As is my habit during these last eight or so years, I walked down Michigan Avenue here in Chicago. I stopped at a 24-hour Walgreens store and purchased a bottle of Pepto Bismol for my sour stomach. I walked for a few miles and then stopped at Trump Tower. I looked up at his ugly building, that foul obelisk, and muttered “this is far from over.” I put the bottle of Pepto up to my lips and drank about half of it.
My words were not born of surprise. It was just resignation at what I have been warning about since before President Biden was elected in 2020 and the events of Jan. 6 and all the other horrible things that have continued to happen as the Trumpocene lingers and the MAGA movement and the other neofascists endure and grow stronger.
