Conversation

“‘The guilty verdict was…a victory for our democratic processes, but [that] we [have] to have…all [these Trump] trials means we’ve gotten into a bad place as a nation & our institutions have been compromised.’
I thought of [SCOTUS]…&…why I wrote Strongmen, a study of what happens to societies & their institutions when deeply damaged & amoral individuals get to power, supported by myriad enablers & cheered by crowds living in alternate realities created by years of lying.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/a-fateful-time-in-our-nations-history