And so, once again, we are standing at the abyss……..

I wrote this post four years ago on the eve of the election. It’s frightening that we are here again. Nothing has really changed, and it’s worth re-reading.

That’s where the land of my birth is today. Remember this scene from the end of the movie Wall Street?

That’s an excellent thought for 2016, especially as we have hordes of less-than-rational people screaming about e-mails repeatedly. All the while ignoring the awful and totalitarian things of the man they profess to love.

Andrew Sullivan, a writer who, I have to confess, has a love/hate relationship with his writing, penned a fairly accurate description of where my mother country is on 5 November.Written for the 2016 election and titled America and The Abyss, it is a well-written and detailed look at how America brought itself to the brink of descending into fascism and fear. It is a frightening apparition of how low the United States has sunk in political and historical awareness.

This is what we now know. Donald Trump is the first candidate for president who seems to have little understanding of or reverence for constitutional democracy and presents himself as a future strongman. This begins with his character — if that word could possibly be ascribed to his disturbed, unstable, and uncontrollable psyche. He has revealed himself incapable of treating other people as anything but instruments to his will. He seems to have no close friends, because he can tolerate no equals. He never appears to laugh, because that would cede a recognition to another’s fleeting power over him. He treats his wives and his children as mere extensions of his power, and those who have resisted the patriarch have been exiled, humiliated, or bought off.

A look at the details of Trump’s life supports this assessment, especially considering his actions in 2020.

Anyone paying attention knew this before he conquered the Republican Party. Look at what has happened since then. He sees the judicial system as entirely subordinate to his political and personal interests, and impugned a federal judge for his ethnicity. He has accused the Justice Department and FBI of a criminal conspiracy to…