Where I, Ron, blog on a variety of different subjects--social theoretical, historical, cultural, political, social ethical, the media, and so on (I got the Max Weber, the Mark Twain, and the Stephen Leacock in me)--in a sometimes Niebuhrian or ironic way all with an attitude. Enjoy. Disagree. Be very afraid particularly if you have a socially and culturally constructed irrational fear of anything over 140 characters.
Friday, 1 May 2020
He's King Midas in Reverse: Donald Trump as Caligula Caesar
Once upon a time FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, gave
help to America's states even if that help was sometimes inadequate and
incompetent as during Hurricane Katrina. And then along came Drumpf.
Under the monarchy of the Orange One, according to several state
governors, FEMA and the Feds are taking PPE and ventilators from the
states in a kind of reverse of what FEMA normally does, in a revived
version, it seems, of feudal privilege. Who needs the Midas touch when
you have the man with the Caligula Touch, Donald Trump?
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