I might have been wrong ...

Previously I argued that resistance to Trump is futile, meaning open resistance. I argued for passive resistance and taking care of vulnerable populations, and for positioning and preparing ourselves for the inevitable crash and cleanup, because it will come. I felt open resistance was for the professionals, mostly lawyers. Sue the shit out of them in every venue and in every way. 

With maybe a little guerrilla activity on our part, but forget the marches. They enjoy your pain. I felt open resistance would worsen the harm to vulnerable people, with Trump and team lashing out more. I failed to see the depth of the fixations -- their fantasies of persecution. Especially Herr Donald. I thought they would be pleased with their glorious victory and a little risk aversion would kick in. 

Or, simply revelry and celebratory smashing-stuff-up, like a junk car at a frat party. 

I was wrong. It's all 'flood the zone’ with real cruelty and destructiveness. And the professionals, again mostly lawyers, are in danger of getting lumped in with us in their helplessness against the tidal wave of garbage. Their professionalism assumes 'the law' stills prevails in places and pockets, and it might not. Welcome to hell. Nobody can be expected to resist under threats of personal harm. 

Especially when it appears you'll simply disappear beneath the waves, without accounting, and not be around for the inevitable crash, the cleanup, and rebuilding, when you could be useful. The level of indeterminacy is daunting and disconcerting. There's so much we don't know and can't predict, but Trump and his minions have issued a 'halt and catch fire' command on the government and society.

In fact, it's unclear how broad their target is. I don't think they know, being afflicted with denial, compartmentalization and rationalization, but they could be after civilization generally. Don't let the insanity of this cause you to dismiss it. Remember how involved they are with destructive archetypes and fantasies. Evangelicals are steeped in a longing for the end times. 

Catholics, at least, like Bannon and a majority of the Supreme Court justices, seem to own a conscious desire for apocalyptic reinvention and to be less driven by unconscious forces. They represent the pinnacle of rationalization for which ability and training Jesuits were rightly renowned. They could and would argue anything, 'ad maiorem dei gloriam' and all. But God doesn't enter into this.

I think it's the other guy at work.