My Kink is Karma (Chapelle Roan)

On the Amtrak from Boston to Portland, Maine on the day after what I believe will be the last celebration of true independence as we know it in this country. Last week’s disastrous presidential debate and Monday’s Supreme Court ruling portend a bleak future for American democracy. A second Trump presidency is inevitable at this point, and he will use his newly minted immunity to violently quell political dissent as he implements a white Christian nationalist agenda that will blame the ‘radical left’ for its excesses and predictable failures. Trumpist power will be taken with or without the consent of the people in November and it will never be ceded peacefully. As Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, put it on Tuesday, “we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”