Charmion: I want to thank you for your Canada info. I've driven across and through Canada and fallen in love with many parts of it and have a prejudice in favor of Canadians for more than one reason. I don't think it'll ever make me root for the Bluejays but stranger things have happened. I WILL sing OH CANADA will full throated ferver.
Backwoodsman: Methinks though dost protest too much. TRMP is a very bad sign of the times, but it isn't all him nor only him. He is a product of America, and thus ourselves. Not waxing poetic, here. One finger points, the rest point back.
SRS: Haven't read Sinclair Lewis, and while his effort was decidedly poetic and prophetic, there are many such signs: There's A Face in the Crowd There's the line in "I Claudius" the BBC production where a historian tells Macro that his dictatorship is a sign that man should never have lost his sense of smell, there's the somewhat prophetic movie: "The Manchurian Candidate" with actor James Gregory as a standin for Joe McCarthy pounding his ketchup bottle at home, and then announcing in the Senate that there are '57' Communist infiltrators in American government.

We carry our gravedigger's worms in ourselves. They are always there, ready to feast on a self destructive society and they furnish an argument for diversity, tolerance, and nonviolence.

Having said all the above, I personally have had a lower opinion of the Trumplicans than ever of any American party in my lifetime. I used to say simply that Republicans are evil and Democrats are cowards, and the American people will go for evil over cowardice in an election. I think the Reps cornered the market on both of those commodities, while the Democrats kind of lost themselves in terminal 'improvement' of the human condition which scared the rest of us, many into the Rep refuge.