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And while Trump's supporters will hail this with nauseatingly sickening euphemisms such as
"Democracy" and "Freedom," it will be a true dictatorship in form and function-something that Trump supporters will revel in, because it's their dictatorship, doing what they want, and hurting the people they want to hurt. And they're not only okay with that, they embrace it fully. Or at least they will until Trump and his successors no longer need their votes, and so most will fall prey and become victims themselves. And that will be all of what little justice will be seen anytime soon.
This is not a screed. It is the low keen of mourning, a lament for the nation I was raised to recognize as the best hope for the world. The country I love has been mortally wounded, and will soon be unrecognizable. This election was its death knell.
The enemy within now has too much power to ever really be defeated. They will hold down the country with their oppressive weight and violate it, its hope and promise drowned.
My country is dying, killed by a large contingent of its own people, some too foolish to know the evil they have unleashed, but all too many perfectly aware of their crime, willing to smugly spit on the very concept of empathy.
This is the sin of dominance, the root of all evil in the world.