Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Sometimes I dream — in the sense of a nightmare — about bringing my parents back to this all too strange world of ours to tell them about … yes, of course, Donald J. Trump. They died long before The Apprentice even made it onto TV early in this century, so — best guess — though they also lived in New York, they undoubtedly had never heard of him. My mother died in 1977 when Donald Trump was 31 and Jimmy Carter was president; my father in 1983 when Trump was 37 and Ronald Reagan was president. But nothing, not even Richard Nixon, could have prepared them for a Trump presidency, not once but (yes!) twice. ” (08/21/25)