Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: What New Hell Will Trump Rain Down on America Next?
June 3, 2020
Donald Trump hugs white supporters. (Gage Skidmore)
By Thom Hartmann
Trump campaigned on nostalgia for the past, with a slogan calling to make America great “again.”And, indeed, he has re-created many of the most notable moments in past American history.
He’s brought back the pandemic of 1918, and the widespread death associated with it.
He’s brought back the Republican Great Depression of 1929 and the widespread economic pain associated with that.
He’s brought back white supremacists like with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the failure of Reconstruction.
And he’s brought back the race riots of the 1960s, once again setting our cities on fire.
Which raises the question: what else will he bring back?
Another World War?
Another Civil War?
Or might he even take us in an entirely new direction, back to the past of other countries?
The rise of fascism in Europe?
The brutal military coup of Pinochet in Chile?
A crackdown like Tiananmen Square?
Trump still has six months to go, assuming Congress doesn’t impeach him again, and it looks like we have to be ready for anything…
Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of the War on Voting and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.