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Oh, it’s just Trump, you can’t take him seriously.
Except maybe we should this time.
We’re numb, right? He gets a pass for his latest round of craziness because most of what he says is crazy.
That’s the only reason I can think of for why we’d all shrug our shoulders and not say a word about how weird and scary it is that our President is talking openly about taking back Panama, how the Canadian border is just a meaningless line, or how he’ll convince Greenland to sell one way or another.
Our collective complacency makes sense. There’s no reason to get all worked up. Even if he really would run roughshod over sovereign borders, we have checks on abuses of power that will never let it happen.
Besides, I’m trying harder these days to think before I speak and measure my words carefully to avoid walking anything back later. Determined not to spout off about every little thing that presses my buttons — and there are lots of them — I’ve been practicing self-restraint and biting my tongue. It’s a standard of decency we expect of our children but not our President.
My reasonable era was going pretty well, that is, until I first heard his expansionist agenda a couple of weeks ago and my jaw dropped agape in disbelief. Since then, I’ve stewed on it and then stewed some more, until I finally…
