Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Most Trump supporters would be happy to die in a ditch as long as they feel free to use the n-word again and liberals are mad. The sooner Democrats get their head around that, the better they will be able to oppose Republicans.

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

How about a little light Saturday night movie time tonight - say, Visconti’s “The Damned”?