@NPR@press.coop The ability for politicians like Trump to communicate in the memetic slurry required to reinforce the jumble of conflicting beliefs held by conspiracy theorists, racists, religious fanatics, sociopaths and other crazies today is staggering to me. That their common ground is closing the door and forfeiting the country's economic and social position in the world so our small towns can look like they did at the start of the cold war is predictably absurd.