I’m going significantly off-topic this week — although a few movie references slipped in, because I can’t help myself — because our country and our society are falling apart. And, as Rachel Maddow observed in the latest episode of her show, we’re not in the realm of “what if” now. An authoritarian state, with Trump at its center, is no longer coming. It’s here. I felt moved to wrestle with why this is happening through the lens of my own personal experience.
