The soul of America is dieing. Richard Goodwin 86 was a poet and wrote the speeches for JFK, RFK and LBJ.
The lofty anti bigotry and grand ideals of America has lost its poetic voice.


In its place we have secret enemy lists being assembled
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611922875/how-trump-s-war-on-the-deep-state-is-leading-to-the-dismantling-of-government

I know inside info on the business of assembling this list of civil servants not loyal to Trump.
This new normal is a travesty and invisible to many. It is preceding rapidly.
A poet dies and a nation does not know who or what they have lost. America's soul has had a silent heart attack. The new normal is a crippling symptom of an impending transition into a dark age.
The trade of democracy for loyalty to a figure who grants stand alone freedom is happening although it is hard to look at, it is harder to talk about. A patriot does not mean what it used to mean.