Making America Great Again Chapter 896

Otto Warmbier, American student, visiting North Korea. Propaganda poster in his hotel, thought it would make a cool souvenir. For this, tortured to death.

Kim Jong Un disavows knowledge, and Trump takes him at his word. Previously said he’s “in love” with Kim. Who’d had his uncle killed with anti-aircraft guns. His half-brother poisoned in a foreign airport. The world’s most viciously repressive dictator.

His underlings handling an American prisoner without Kim’s full knowledge and direction? Preposterous.

But Trump takes him at his word. Like he took MBS’s word that he knew nothing about Kashoggi’s dismemberment. And Putin’s word that he had nothing to do with subverting our 2016 election.

But U.S. intelligence services? Their word he doesn’t take. Mainstream media? “Fake news.” And Canada’s prime minister — him Trump calls a liar. (Does Trump, himself a pathological liar, know what truth is?)

But —

Why do I bother? Doesn’t everyone know all this? Don’t I get tired of writing such stuff?

Yes.

With past presidents, I wouldn’t call out everything I didn’t like; merely par for the course. Trump is different. Now I’m resolved to let nothing pass. That would be to accept monstrousness as normality.

Which indeed is what’s happening. Recently a commentator remarked that things which, before, would have been big scandals, today hardly even register.

Example: remember Trump claiming he couldn’t release his tax returns because they were under audit? That was a lie — auditing is irrelevant to making returns public. But now we learn there was no audit.

Does anyone care? This bombshell went almost wholly unremarked. Showing how inured we have become. Now we just shrug.

I refuse to shrug. I refuse to become inured to monstrousness. To the utter degradation of my beloved country. I must bear witness.
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