At The Core
As the Executive Orders keep tumbling out of Washington D.C. and the Trump administration continues to make good on it's promises, the atmosphere around the nation is palpably depressed, confused, and angry. I'm finding that I'm hearing from all sorts of folks from the corners of my live about what I think of it all, and what I think we can do about it. As much as I want to compare the goings on these days to other Constitutional crises we've experienced, it is not a perfect comparison. Far from it. We are in new territory because the President, in my view demonstrates severe personality disorders. Writers have often postulated universes where the leader of a country is a "madman" or for some unknown reason has surprisingly changed his views on crucial issues. Perhaps the person on the other end of the puppet strings suddenly emerges, or suddenly assumes more control. In our enjoyment of such a fantasy, we often ask ourselves, could that really happen?