We can't just go after Trump we have to stop Trumpism....Mary Trump spoke on the DEMOCRACY-ish podcast.......AND THIS writing from John Pavolitz's s worth noting: "Today is a day of mourning for millions of Americans......They are people who have lost someone they dearly love, though not to death but to something else; something much less expected, something much more unnatural. They have lost them to the knowledge of how unlike they now are; to a moral disconnect that has rendered their relationship mortally wounded. It is slow death by irreconcilable differences.....Because our politics and our religion have become such a fierce battleground between us and those close to us, we are now a nation of people attending perpetual funerals for the living. We continually grieve the partisan talking points and the wild conspiracy theories and the toxic theology and the unbridled hated and all these things have destroyed. ....Every day is a memorial to something that has died before its time.......The present crisis here isn't a violent civil war as is often alleged, it is a somber wake where we see laid out in front of us those we have lost. They are there in old photos, in dormant text message threads, in long-abandoned social media posts, in discontinued family traditions, in severed social connections: daily reminders of once-fully living relationships that are over now. And these funerals for the living are devastating because they never end, because we never saw many of them them coming, and because grieving isn't supposed to work like this"...John Pavolvitz explains what's Substack ihappening in America right now perfectly...