I feel like I'm living through a horror movie [View all]

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In the old story of the frog in the boiling water, this 10-year journey through the Trump years is eerily similar to a horror movie. The fact that 45% of American voters are OK with this is scary. Now we have an additional villain joining Trump at the top of this adventure; the world's richest and most unstable man, Elon Musk.

It's similar to the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Amazingly, men (and some women, like Nikki Haley) will support a person who publicly insulted their intelligence, their looks, their family members and their spouses. This was unheard of in my day. A Senator touting a candidate who insulted his wife on twitter and accused his father of assisting in the JFK assassination. A Senate Majority leader who is insulted in public and whose wife was insulted with the most racist tweets. Nikki Haley, who was called a "bird brain" and whose husband was denigrated for being deployed. I could go on and on, with the most recent being Brian Kemp.

This is not normal. I come from a time when a politician would hold a grudge for his seating assignment at a fundraiser, let alone a public insult of his or her spouse.

Family members (mostly male cousins) who I thought were intelligent and tolerant turn out to be racists and bigots who feel free to let everyone know now that Trump has given them cover.

If you told me 10 or 15 years ago that this would be America today, I would not have believed you. But, unlike a sci-fi thriller, this nightmare may never end, at least not in my lifetime (72 years old).