Deconstruction

I've had a deep-seated suspicion of law enforcement for the better part of six decades. I grew up in the late stages of Jim Crow, and my schooling was pretty good in that I had classes in current affairs, in which I started learning a bit about J Edgar Hoover, and some of the shit he was pulling - COINTELPRO, MLK, etc.

We can bandy words over Lord Acton's thing about power corrupting, but I think the main thing to remember is that power will be abused. The more power you hand to somebody, and the longer they hold it, the higher the probability that they can duck being held to account for their actions. There's a reason invisibility is the greatest superpower.

Trump is - and has been - playing that out in real time, right in front of us.

It comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that until recently, FBI recruits were being exposed to the Holocaust Museum, and the MLK Memorial, in order to instruct them on the dangers posed to everybody - including themselves - when we let law enforcement go nuts.

Trump is tearing all down.

Because everything Trump touches dies.