Perhaps these ramparts, tattered as they were, were just sufficient enough to slow down the runaway train, though. Perhaps we’ll survive this nightmare and reclaim our government and our sanity, after all.
David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. His website is www.regressiveantidote.net.