“Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of Americans in 1830.
“Look at me,” he says, the way toddlers do when they step over the kitten rather then squashing it, “I did it!”.
Why do Americans, alleged rugged individualists, upholders of liberty, haters of king and government, put up with this grotesque man?
Most presidents — thought not Nixon or Dubya — generally talked sense before and Americans grew used to listening.
Americans bow down to authority just as Britons do to monarchs and aristocrats; they doff their cap.
Many Americans, especially in the Midwest, are of German descent and share the German love of meticulous paperwork.
But obedient paper-loving Americans are paying with their lives because they are obediently following a Trump, not an Angela Merkel. »
