the sterility of the liberal class,                                                                                                              serving the interests of a democratic party that disdains                                                                     and ignores them, fuels the widespread feelings of betrayal                                                               that saw nearly half the voters support one of the most vulgar, racist, inept and corrupt presidents in american history.                                                                                                                   

an american tyranny, dressed up with the ideological veneer of a christianized fascism,              will, it appears, define the empire’s epochal descent                                                                                into irrelevance.                                                                                                 —chris hedges