This morning (Madrid time) I tried to put a little humor into the situation resourcing to the old meme, but the simple truth is that today brings terrible news. The most important country in the world has elected as its leader a psychopath, somebody who represents the very definition of populism, a man who many of us thought was a bad joke that would soon go away.
What’s more, he’s been given pretty much omnipotence: not only is Donald Trump now the 45th president of the United States, but he also has the Republican Party, which if not his party, is now his partner in crime, behind him with a majority in both the House and the Senate. This is no laughing matter. This psychopath homophobic, racist, inmoral and arrogant lunatic who mocks the most important problem of our time, climate change, now has, among many other things, control of the nuclear button, what’s more, he can’t wait to get his hands on it.
A few days ago, talking to a Spanish-American friend who works in the tech industry, he told me that the only thing that could actually slow down technological progress was … Donald Trump in the White House.
This is not some Nassim Taleb’s black swan: this is the entire sky filled with them, along with all kinds of other birds of ill omen. I can’t think of anything good that might come out of this. I’m sorry to have to fall foul of Godwin’s…
