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World Famous Groundhog Predicts Gathering Storm in Our Future

Was his dark outline the only ominous prognostication shadow?

Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous groundhog, saw his shadow on February 2nd and dashed back into his hole in the ground, promising 6 more weeks of winter. But before he left, he expressed even more concern over the first two weeks of the Trump Presidency predicting a gathering storm for our Democracy. (Shutterstock photo 1024441057 by YevgeniyDr)

Ever since 1886 when the Punxsutawney Spirit, a rural Pennsylvania newspaper, named their local Groundhog mascot and weather forecaster Punxsutawney Phil, February 2nd has been known as Groundhog Day throughout the U.S.

The rodent’s supposed wisdom actually comes from a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition that if he comes out of his hole on that day and there’s no sunlight to scare him, he promises an early spring.

This year, Phil raced back into his hole, scared of his shadow in the early sunshine, to portend six more weeks of winter.

But some say that Phil is more than just a weather forecaster. His actions this year followed the inauguration of Donald Trump a dozen days before as POTUS. And, they contend, it is a prediction of a gathering storm over the United States’ landscape.

The predilection of dark days in our country’s future is largely spurred not by a fat furry rodent, but by an ominous coincidence half a world away. The 27th of January marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where 1,000,000 people were killed by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s “final…