Trump's outrages outpace the collective ability to keep up with illegalities and eviisms - a 1939 playbood in Project 2025
One Trump outrage after another. Here are just two.
#EvilismTrumpziism 💀❗ 1939 redux.
#EvilismTrumpziism 💀❗ 1939 redux.
Two sequential entries in BostonGlobe.com’s live feed of Trump updates on Jan. 22, were like twin canaries in the toxic coal mine of America’s new regime:
9:25 AM: “Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page.” The White House site displayed an “Error 404” message and a “Go To Home Page” button that originally read “Go Home.” The message: If you speak only Spanish, the new president will not help you, and someone on his staff finds it OK to make fun of you.
9:40 AM: “Trump administration cancels travel plans for refugees who have already been cleared to resettle in the US.” What will befall these prospective new Americans who only wish to live, work, and raise families in safety? In letters from Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1940, my ancestors tell of friends whose escape to America was thwarted by politics or bureaucracy. Some went elsewhere, many died in concentration camps. All would have been enthusiastic Americans whose great-grandchild might have been your good neighbor today.
But, by the afternoon, both of those entries were already far down the list of new outrages. They may not grab headlines like the prospect of a Republican-weaponized Justice Department, illegal pardons of January 6, 2021, criminals, or Elon Musk’s meme-coin-themed government agency. But they are deeply symbolic of the inhumane America of Trump 2.0. Drowned out by louder issues, they are the small, death-of-democracy-by-a-thousand-cuts changes that we ignore at our own peril.
From Geoff Kronik in Brookline, Massachusetts
Comment: "Thank you Mr. Kronik. It feels like 1939 sometimes."
9:25 AM: “Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page.” The White House site displayed an “Error 404” message and a “Go To Home Page” button that originally read “Go Home.” The message: If you speak only Spanish, the new president will not help you, and someone on his staff finds it OK to make fun of you.
9:40 AM: “Trump administration cancels travel plans for refugees who have already been cleared to resettle in the US.” What will befall these prospective new Americans who only wish to live, work, and raise families in safety? In letters from Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1940, my ancestors tell of friends whose escape to America was thwarted by politics or bureaucracy. Some went elsewhere, many died in concentration camps. All would have been enthusiastic Americans whose great-grandchild might have been your good neighbor today.
But, by the afternoon, both of those entries were already far down the list of new outrages. They may not grab headlines like the prospect of a Republican-weaponized Justice Department, illegal pardons of January 6, 2021, criminals, or Elon Musk’s meme-coin-themed government agency. But they are deeply symbolic of the inhumane America of Trump 2.0. Drowned out by louder issues, they are the small, death-of-democracy-by-a-thousand-cuts changes that we ignore at our own peril.
From Geoff Kronik in Brookline, Massachusetts
Labels: Brookline, Geoff Kronik, Massachusetts, The Boston Globe
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