Please
don’t read this unless you are feeling strong. This is a list of 13
major crises that, I believe, confront us. There may be more. Please
feel free to add to it or to knock it down. I’m sorry to say that it’s
not happy reading.
1. Donald Trump
The next occupant of the White House will be a man who appears to possess no capacity for restraint, balance or empathy, but a bottomless capacity for revenge and vindictiveness.
He has been granted a clean sweep of power, with both houses and the
supreme court in his pocket. He is surrounding himself with people whose
judgment and knowledge of the world are, to say the least, limited. He
will take charge of the world’s biggest nuclear and conventional
arsenals, and the most extensive surveillance and security apparatus any
state has ever developed.
2. His national security adviser
In making strategic military decisions, he has a free hand, with the
capacity to act even without the nominal constraint of Congress. His
national security adviser, Michael T Flynn, is a dangerous extremist.
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