Descent

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I promised myself I wasn’t going to get political again.

I’ve lived long enough to remember the Cold War, bomb drills, race riots, Vietnam, assassinations, and Watergate. They were terrible times, often seeming as if they would go on forever. Yet they didn’t. Even if it was only in small measures, reason and decency prevailed.

This feels different, though. This feels familiar in the most malignant way.

It amazes me that some reasonably intelligent people are still rati...