There’s a kind of unspoken conspiracy to ignore how difficult life is, or to reframe it as something romantic — a heroic challenge to overcome on our way to the good life. In this conspiracy we each try to hide our scars, even from those closest to us and sometimes even from ourselves.
The Duwamish helped supplement settlers’ pinched diet with fresh fish, fowl, game,
clams, and bulbs. They taught Mary Ann Denny, too sick to nurse baby Rolland, how to keep him alive with clam nectar.
Trumpism in the end is a grab-bag -- not conservatism, not libertarianism, not even populism. A little socialism won’t hurt America, but everything-sink Trumpism does.
