Everything is moving so fast with #RussiaGate that it feels like oxygen masks should drop down from the ceiling any second now so we can catch our breath. Remember to put your own mask on first before assisting other passengers.
I’m old enough to remember Watergate, Iran-contra, TravelGate and Whitewater. But nothing so big has unfolded so fast in my life time. Whether it’s social media or the 24 hour news cycle or the bitter political polarization feeding vast amounts of energy into the movement to bring down this illegitimate regime, the intensity and breadth of the sheer power bearing down is cataclysmic.
Now the the noose is tightening and any semblance of possible innocence has diminished to the infinitesimal, the vulgar vainglorious Trump family, and those amoral or stupid enough to cast in their lot with them, must feel the walls closing in.
The sense of tension and foreboding in the White House made me think of one of my favorite movie scenes of all time: the flight from the schoolhouse in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Enjoy my reimagining of the panic and desperation in that seen as unknown and overwhelming force turns against the characters in the scene.
The main difference is that in the movie, as far as we know, Tippi Hedren and the school children are personally innocent of any act that brought the wrath of nature down on them.
In the case of the Trumps, we now have the incontrovertible proof of their treason and corruption, and the forces now bent on destroying them are being cheered on by most of the people on the planet.