After two hours of Donald Trump saying that America’s great and he wants to make it greater so that everybody can have a great life and by the way here are some amazing heroes, former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger appeared on television to I don’t know what. You can watch it here, if you want to see an illustration of the metaphor about someone being “lost at sea.” Hit pause right at the 11:34 mark, because I want to say something about that moment before you watch it.
Spanberger said that Trump is corrupt, and that he’s destroying America, and that everything is horrible. If you don’t hate how horrible everything is right now, just wait: America will become more dark and cruel and miserable and rotten. It was a sad trombone sound effect come to life. Here’s something bad, and here’s something else bad, and also, here’s some more bad things. Trump equals darkness, a message she pounded home with roughly the subtlety of Creed doing that halftime show.
