Great essay Barry. But I must say, you really had me going the other day when you wrote implying Trump might indeed be the victim of a vast of a Dem. Party plot. Of course, as Stephen Colbert once pointed out "the truth does have a liberal bias". But, in Trumplandia, (like, the book 1984), Truth it whatever Big Brother Orange says it is. We keep thinking it can't happen here, but it nearly did several times. Recall that George Washington rejected calls for him to stay as King. We have never been so near to Full Frontal Fascism (https://medium.com/@daneke/full-frontal-fascism-what-is-really-at-stake-in-the-trump-trial-a74d8c3503a4). So no goose stepping, even as a joke.