This Week Was a Turning Point in America’s Collapse

This week was a turning point in the United States. I don’t know if it’s being taken as such, though. Too much has been happening too quickly for too long for people to keep up. That’s the point of all the Trump administration’s outrages and the paroxysms of protest that follow. The transgressions come hard and fast with the purpose of fatiguing the opposition, and, more importantly, normalizing the chaotic state of affairs. Chaos is essential to the expression of megalomania, whether interpersonally or institutionally. Unmoving rigidity isn’t the bedrock of totalitarianism; capriciousness is. The rules are enforced uncompromisingly but against only certain groups — who is in and who is out can change overnight, and the rules themselves can be altered or tossed out entirely on a whim. The uncertainty that results is essential in destabilizing any meaningful resistance. The events of this week and how they have been reported have made it uncomfortably clear that the gaping holes in the corporate media’s resistance to the Trump administration’s dishonesty will continue to yawn. They are complicit. They are collaborating.

During times of instability, people rationally seek to cling to something stable, something that has lasted, something they hope will continue to persevere. That thing for much of America — conservative and liberal — is Whiteness. Don’t fall…