America is paralyzed until something is done about the Trump "problem".

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12. Here in Europe, I am constantly asked, "how does your country even continue to function?"

I explain that we are on a kind of national auto-pilot.

I have flown back to the USA a total of six times now since the election of 2016. What has changed physically, and for me personally? Not a whole hell of a lot. The ocean water off of Cape Cod is a little warmer, but it has been getting progressively warmer for two decades now. A few people I know have retired, some have gotten married, one has died (he was 91 and ill with cancer). But we keep on keeping on, and try to spend our short time there with the good people we always spend time with.

But the awful changes we know are coming will be slow to manifest themselves in the eyes of the superficial visitor (Lawrence, Massachusetts is not on the list of "must-see" places in New England). The horrible part is that it will take just as long, if not longer, to reverse them.