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The Beginning of the Beginning

We are not going to fold

MartinEdic
5 min readJan 22, 2025
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During a turning point early in WWII, Winston Churchill was asked if this was the beginning of the end. He replied that it was the beginning of the beginning. And now, faced with the terrible unhinged reality of Donald Trump’s second term, a lot of us are left wondering how we begin to hold this thing together in the face of an overwhelming storm.

That storm is driven by a sense of entitlement that is unearned and held together by the frailest of political majorities in the Republican Party, frailties already being tested by the flurry of poorly thought out executive orders written by over enthusiastic political operatives.

Yesterday’s blanket pardon of the January Sixth violent rioters is already testing the loyalty of Trump’s supporters in Congress, among police, and the courts. The idea of pardoning those who attacked police doing their jobs to protect the Capitol is not sitting well with those who were there and feared for their lives.

And we are about to witness the round up of neighbors and coworkers who may be in the country illegally but came here to work hard and create a new life. That aspiration is an American tradition that is in the history of all Americans who came here from other places, including Trump’s family members.

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MartinEdic
MartinEdic

Written by MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!

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