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“ COVID-19 is an opportunity to demand change while the people are paying attention to the crisis. A return to normalcy is the opposite of what we need. This is a moment to think about what should be the new normal and what should be jettisoned forever.”
– Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, March 25, 2020
Over at Black Agenda Report, senior editor Margaret Kimberley often warns that “it’s just too easy” to criticize Donald Trump, unless one does so only in passing, on the way to a larger critique of the global socio-political and economic order as organized by today’s oligarchs and plutocrats.
She’s right, of course. It is ridiculously easy to point out this man’s obvious, constant, in-your-face dishonesty, raging narcissism, and buffoonery, if only because he and his entire supporting cast are so utterly corrupt and ridiculous to start with.
Yet, I disagree with Kimberley. Yes, it may not take much effort to assess and address this man’s glaring insecurities, but such an exercise is not pointless. Trump’s never-ending perfidy must be highlighted, protested, confronted, interrogated, defied and challenged every single time he does or says something outrageous, ridiculous or absurd — and false. If not, we risk “normalizing” his behavior, his antics…and we will become inured to…
