I Had a Dream (Jennifer Semple Siegel)
Oh-My-God! I had the worst dream ever! In my nightmare, he was elected president, my country suffering through nearly three years of his bullshit! His ugly mug all over the news! Every! Single! Day! Twitter! Racist, white nationalist, fascist, Nazi tweets! Neo-Nazi mass murderers! Tax cuts for the rich! Kavanaugh! Trade wars! Tariffs! Picking fights with China! Rollbacks of EPA rules! Climate change unchecked! Befriending authoritarian leaders: Putin, Kim Jong-un, Xi Jinping! Chaos in the White House! Chaos at the border! Concentration camps! The caging of children! Oh! Maybe it’s not a dream! I grab my phone from the nightstand: yes, November 9, 2016. 5:33 a.m., not 2019, nearly three years shaved off the river of time. I click the controller: “…It was a close call, but Hillary Clinton, thankfully, pulled out a narrow electoral win of 275,” Rachel Maddow says with obvious relief. “I can’t even imagine the ramifications of a T...
