I have to keep reminding myself that it’s not going to last forever. What would have once been unthinkable headlines that might have been shouted by a subway lunatic or Walmart parking lot megaphone preacher have now become a daily reality. “The US Threatens Military Force Against Greenland.” That was from two days ago, preceded by “NATO to send troops to Greenland in show of force against the United States.” Throw ICE agents shooting people in the face in Minnesota and sprinkle in some Epstein files, and the news is clearly unhinged and crazy.

It Will End

Donald Trump is like that crazy-maker ex that everyone has in their past. That one who did crazy stuff and then blamed you and the rest of the world for their bad behavior. When they keyed your car they said “look what you made me do!”

This week The President said “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.” 

We wake up and the news jumps out and smacks us in the face in the way of Will Smith’s famous slap at the Oscars. The stories assault our peace and destroy our calm as we realize that the preposterous has become possible. NATO going to war with itself.

It feels like there has been a recent shift in the energy of the universe, as cracks form in what was homogenous red MAGA wall. Marjorie Taylor Green, once a staunch Trump ally is now publicly at odds with the president. Seventeen House Republicans sided with Democrats to extend Obamacare. I have conservative friends who voted for the president twice that are appalled by recent events.

Like A Fever Dream

I believe that a few years from now the nation will have regained its senses and we will look back on this time as we would recall a breakdown on the interstate while suffering from a delirious high fever. We know the experience was awful, but it is so surreal it’s almost like it never happened. The memory is a disjointed, jagged cacophony of blasting horns and streaking headlights.

I hope that our leaders learn some lessons from our collective descent into madness. I hope that we the people learned some things, too. When someone tries to tell you who they are, believe them. The President has not done anything that he didn’t say he was going to do. We just didn’t think he was crazy enough to do it.