So many import and disturbing updates in Micah Sifry’s latest First Post at Civicist: Aberrations.
This point from Evan Osnos in The New Yorker probably freaked me out the most:
“Since Election Day, Trump has largely avoided receiving intelligence briefings, either because he doesn’t think it’s important that he receive them or because he just doesn’t care about them. George W. Bush, in the first months of 2001, ignored warnings about Osama bin Laden. Only in our darkest imaginings can we wonder what warnings Trump is ignoring now.”
Also, I learned a new word “Americanism.”