Trump cronies who break the law and are sent to jail? Pardon them. Enablers who are being investigated? Fire the investigators. Impeachment hearings? Bully the witnesses. Advisers who have the temerity to rely on science to combat the coronavirus? Fire them, too.
If this sounds like an episode of The Apprentice, with Trump reigning as angry, impetuous god, that's no coincidence. Trump reads from just one script. He knows only one way to "govern" - i.e., to get his own way, come hell or high water. Only now, beyond the confines of "reality" TV, the stakes are a tad higher. The Constitution, the rule of law, the environment, countless human - and other species' - lives, and our willingness to care for one another, based on scientific realities and prosocial ethics, all hang in the balance.
We live in an era of epic floods. The coronavirus, as biological tsunami, is sweeping through the global landscape. Climate change is a technologically-wrought tsunami inexorably and lethally altering our planetary ecosystem.
Trump-as-tsunami - a force of malignant intent - routinely sweeps aside truth, laws, norms of behavior and basic human decency. He's not alone in this, of course, aided and abetted as he is by his many cohorts, some ruthless and ethically-seared, others seemingly unaware of - or uncaring about - his deeper intent. These include:
 � the ever-devolving Republican Party, currently a hairsbreadth from jackboots;
 � the corporate elites, remorseless purveyors of corporate feudalism;
 � Dominionists and many fundamentalist "Christians" utterly forswearing the teachings of Christ, latching on to Trump as their vengeful god;
 � Fox News, cynically promoting a parallel universe divorced from objective reality, serving asunrepentant shill for the corporate takeover; and
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