Nearly two years ago, in April of 2024, I finally threw in the towel on updating this blog. To be honest, at that time President Joe Biden was limping toward re-election and Donald Trump was running for a nonconsecutive 2nd term. It was getting harder and harder to watch this process and I just ran out of gas.

But since then Trump has once again become President and many of my worst fears have come true. Again and again I’ve asked myself what I can do as a member of the resistance and I’ve decided to start writing again. I tried to write at least one article per month and that just isn’t enough. I fell into the trap known as “the perfect is the enemy of the good.” I pressured myself into thinking each entry had to be stunning and they ended up just being time consuming.

My hope now is to write shorter, less ambitious articles. I’ll be frank that I think Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and if he succeeds in becoming a stand alone dictator it will only partially be the result of his supporters. To quote Dr. Martin Luther King, “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” I have limited belief in my ability to convert true Trump supporters but I do hope to awaken those who oppose Trump but haven’t spoken up.

Stay Tuned.