Tom Ellis
Jan 10, 2025

Thank you for this dire and entirely accurate assessment of our demise—the dark vortex into which our nation is slipping fast. I see Trump in Jungian terms as the surfacing of our collective “shadow”— those malignant aspects of our national character that we have always been in denial about: our greed, willful ignorance, racial hatred, chronic anti-intellectualism and denial, and despair. This will not end well . Trump is our collective bad karma personified—the American Antichrist, the “tough Beast slouching towards Bethlehem.

Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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