Ruby Slippers

See Us Through

Joe Biden was a transitional president all right.  Just not from one generation to the next.  He was a well-intentioned and high achieving placeholder.  During Joe’s tenure his predecessor relentlessly campaigned for a second shot at dismantling the framework and customs of the American system of governance.  Joe was the bridge between Trump administrations,

During his four years out of office, Donald Trump’s addiction to power was overshadowed only by his fear of having his body imprisoned and his finances imperiled. With his Election 2024 win, he can allow himself to escape punishment for his criminal conduct and civil peccadillos—before, while, and after his first term in office.

As he prepares to return to the White House, he is populating the framework of his administration with bootlickers straight off the Project 2025 playbook casting couch.  If you can admire the man for nothing else, give Trump credit as heir of B.T. Barnam’s callous assessment of the crowds he gulled.

Trump has a proven power.  The same as cancer.  Malignant.

Allegorically, America won the right to wear ruby slippers of protection in 2020.  Now we are some distance down the Oz’s golden road.  Our band of timid travelers is walking in the dark woods where unseen dangers threaten.  “Lions, tigers and bears.  Oh, my!”

We ought to be more worried about the flying monkeys.

The Wizard can see you now.