We're--No--He's So Vain

Lately I think that Donald Trump is the harbinger of the end of our country as we have known it and maybe the end of civilization. For most of human evolution it's been tough to feel that we humans are anything more than animals. We've won that battle, the one for human exceptionalism.

We have kicked the ass of every other species to an amazing degree. 

And we Americans think that we are the best people in the world. Then we go and elevate a guy who is transparently an animal, nothing more than an appetite, to secular sainthood. The significance if this is as immense as that appetite. We have simply given up on ourselves and humanity.

We have given in to the worst of what we are, embodied in Donald Trump.