Donald Trump and America's Confused Values
The 2016 presidential election posed a grim choice: "I'm with her" Hillary (note how her slogan was not "She's with me," because she wasn't), and Donald Trump. I chose neither.
The best descriptor of our current president is Joe Bageant's: "a careening set of brainless balls." (Joe wrote this long before Trump became a candidate.) Lately, those brainless balls have been careening ever more violently into racist territory, yet his support seems as strong as ever. Something is rotten in the State of America, and it won't be cleaned up even when Trump is gone. As I argued in this post from May 2017, America's values are seriously screwed up. With allegedly devout Christians embracing Trump as some sort of prophet if not savior, you just know all of this is not going to end well.