Why Bother to Write?
A bit of reflection to mark the milestone of my 100th Substack post.
When I published my first post on Substack, I had no idea that, in such short order, we’d be perched on the precipice of complete autocracy in the United States. Oh, it may have been a distant theoretical concept in the back of the minds of those who had been paying close attention. But there were few at the time who thought that it would come to pass, at least not in less than a year.
At that time, Kamala Harris had energized huge swaths of the population — folks who were both already thoroughly disgusted with Donald Trump and people who had become disillusioned with President Biden. Polling looked optimistic for a Democratic victory. The air was thick with hope and promise.
How quickly things changed.
The results of the election abruptly changed the national mood. Democrats immediately switched from optimism to dread. Trump1 and his supporters, h…
