We're Losing Focus Here

I know, it's hard not to drill down on Trump--the indescribable awfulness of the entire situation. We want to comprehend it. But Trump can't be understood and that's good. He's inhuman or subhuman or something not lending itself to easy understanding by a normal, average, non-sociopathic person.

There's nothing there for us, personally. Trump's appeal is somewhere south of civilization and humanity in an area of despair, aboriginal fear and animal drives. But a little wisdom would be good. We need to understand Trumpism. We need to understand it enough to to implement a solution.

The solution is some form of strength--not the strength of stridency and reactivity but the strength to resist with consistent force and determination. We must fight back with conviction and with rational and aggressive arguments. Reactivity will not work. Kicking and screaming will not work.