The face of America

Insurrectionist Stewart Rhodes, leader, Oath Keepers, accidently shot himself in the face.

Much like the old face.

Insurrectionist Ernst Röhm, leader, Sturmabteilung (SA), murdered by his own movement.

Just reminiscing.

I'm sitting in the Montreal airport — Bienvenue! says the entrance – waiting for my reluctant return to the Fatherland. I open my laptop, I drop by The NY Times, I click on a front-page story — Bienvenue! Trump's far-right agenda to "mainstream" politics — I scroll a few paragraphs, I plunge headlong into the Fatherland's face ...

... its malevolent zeitgeist.

I'm struck by its familiarity. Why of course, good old Ernst — he was there, on J6.

I remember. I recall the jersey he wore, its number, "88." Or I think that was Ernst. It might have been Stu. No matter. No difference. Ernst was there all right. Because — the zeitgeist, its miasmic malevolence, seeping, the mainstream.

Bienvenue! Fatherland.

You motherfuckers weren't paying attention.