OPINION: 'Dickens' famous passage about an earlier fraught time captures this knife-edge moment: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the…
The upcoming midterm elections promise, inexplicably, to be very close. Inexplicably, because if polls on key issues such as reproductive rights, health care, climate change and gun restrictions are even remotely accurate, we will decisively vote the GOP rascals out of power. But according to the same polling outfits, we won’t be.
Was it that great period energized for many by the pursuit of our Manifest Destiny of European development of this continent coast to coast? The 1950s then. That must be what the MAGA folks have in mind. The depression behind us and victorious in a terrible war, a decade of relative prosperity for some, a rising tide. But surely Trump would not return us to the ongoing segregation and lynchings, the pre-Women’s Movement version of domestic life, back-alley abortions, unequal rights for women. Would he?
One looks back fondly to those good old days when we impeached presidents for oval office hanky-panky rather than for attempting to wreck democracy. But it’s doubtful that’s what Trumpists have in mind when hearkening back to greatness.