The Historical Record

If this country survives and its history written in the decades and centuries to come,

I suspect that the current era will be denominated “The Age of Unreason”. It will be recorded
that a nation founded by immigrants and populated by their descendants closed its doors to those seeking asylum and a better life.
That its youth emulated the salutes and symbols and adopted the hatred and vitriol of those whom their grandfathers had fought to the death to defeat. Historians will express befuddlement
that a man with no historical knowledge or interest, no sense of mission save self-adulation, no
moral fiber and possessing acute criminal instincts, was elevated to leadership of what was then labeled the “Free World”.
Chroniclers will wonder how men and women of high elective office, fully aware of the destructive and disruptive nature of their leader, chose to ignore the chaos and conflict reigning about them in their pursuit of self promotion. Historians likely will question how a Supreme Court dominated by originalists and professing aversion to activist judging could bend the constitution to justify a private right to bear arms and a corporate right to use wealth to dominate the electoral process; the same court that pronounced itself powerless to remedy patent deprivation of voting rights by ultra-partisan electoral mapping.
Finally, much will be written about a nation once united in common purpose that was splintered
into tribal cohorts exuding venom for one another and a congress paralyzed and cowered into inaction, fearful of retribution by an egomaniacal ignoramus and his blindly devoted base.
Then, hopefully, it will document how the darkness receded, the nation found its way and the grand experiment that is American democracy was saved.