From Bad to Worse, as Trump’s Empire Implodes: Is this Armageddon?

“It’s like Armageddon.”

That’s what my mom said to me the other day.

I’m concerned. Maybe it isn’t “like” Armageddon. Maybe it is Armageddon.

We have multiple “great battles” on our hands. While other countries have united people to fight Covid-19, Trump has worked to keep us divided and unprotected. His early insistence that the virus would simply go away and his focus on blue state spikes in cases (which he apparently interpreted as proof that red states would be fine) curtailed the swift and decisive actions that would have prevented the virus from spreading across the entire country.

Trump’s blame game tactics have filtered down to the lowest, meanest, most susceptible and unstable of us, who are using his rhetoric to justify violent acts. While the family of the latest victim of a police shooting called out for peaceful protest, some unnamed Facebook group rallied to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, armed and ready to take on the BLM protesters, whom they imagined were intent on damaging property.

Where did this come from? We heard the family of Jacob Blake. We listened to their pain and we respected their wishes. Peaceful protests were what we had, until an outside group chose to show up with weapons to protect buildings and…