Mockery Monday

As Hamas is handing out goodie bags to the hostage upon their release, Trump is about to swear the presidential oath in Washington D.C., throwing the world deeper into disarray. I remember the dread I felt back in February 2017 when I took the picture above after departing DCA, and there is every indication that things will be much worse this time around.

If there is any upside to any of this, it is that the risk of a nuclear confrontation with Russia may be lower under a Trump presidency (even when accounting for the lack of foreign policy competence). Still, this is not because we have defeated chauvinism and its hyper-masculine values but because the same narrow zero-sum worldview has now won out also in America.