The Day MAGA Comes True

Note: I've taken a long break from this blog. The reason is simple, it wasn't helping. The therapy of writing for me is being able to express thoughts without having to resort to using a torrent of obscenities backed by unbridled anger to make a point. The new norm of public vitriol has made that difficult but some things cannot be left unsaid, so here goes.

I wake up each day looking forward with optimism. It's not a happy reason for optimism but it's a reason; I know that every passing day puts us one day closer to the twenty first century version of the Nuremberg trials. I can see the courtroom now. It looks very similar to its 1945 counterpart but seated in the guarded defendant box isn't Hermann Göring but Donald Trump and the other assorted members of his administration that have perpetrated crimes against humanity.

The charge of crimes against humanity is not hyperbole. This President ordered the incarceration of children with absolutely no plan of how to reunite them with their parents after due process. Those incarcerated entered the country illegally with their parents, a misdemeanor under U.S. law. The extent to which this policy exceeded not only the level of crime but the definition of cruel and unusual punishment is staggering. Children have been taken from their parents' custody and jailed in warehouse sized internment camps where the "caregivers" have been instructed not to pick them up to provide comfort. The depth of cruelty in this treatment is nearly unimaginable. The trauma inflicted on the kids is permanent, so is the humanitarian stain on the United States.

The President reversed course this week after polls showed nearly seventy percent of the country disagreed with the policy. Now the administration faces a daunting task of reuniting detainee families - an outcome for which they never planned nor one for which they the wherewithal to deliver. Some of these kids will never see their parents again. That is a shameful tragedy that will forever mark Trump in history.

Hearing those that support the President justify this atrocity is sickening. One commentator on the Fox News propaganda outlet went so far as to say, "Like it or not, these are not our kids." Others have made equally reprehensible statements comparing these prisons to summer camps. Some actions of the opposition tread on the sublime like Kirstjen Nielsen being shouted out of a Mexican restaurant after being inexplicably tone deaf to the controversy, let alone the irony, of showing up at all. Public shaming of these individuals is anything but off limits given the level of atrocity for which they are accountable. However, the sad fact remains, there is significant support in America for this most un-American of policies. Could a full thirty percent of the population condone Trump's use of child abuse as an illegal immigration deterrent? As abhorrent as it sounds, it appears to be true.

It's unclear how bad things will get before things get better. The number of Americans that actively condone or are silently complicit racism, homophobia, xenophobia, child abuse, and the destruction of the environment is surprising. The countermovement against Trump remains grass roots and not well organized. The Democratic Party remains without a definitive leader that can unify the opposition and usher in the much predicted blue wave.

It's very possible a blue wave simply may not happen in 2018. However, change will happen eventually as will the harsh judgement of these times by history.

Nuremberg is coming for Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, Kirstjen Nielsen, Stephen Miller, and the common thugs they've dressed up in ICE uniforms to do their dirty work. They will have their day in court and the opportunity to defend the indefensible. That will be the day that makes America great again. Today, we are one day closer.