Since the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, American has attracted people who were willing to leave their home comforts behind and, at tremendous risk to themselves, carve out a vibrant new nation on land that the Native Americans, adventurers themselves, had only minimally tamed.  Now, in 2020, our stalwart predecessors would never recognize, let alone acknowledge as their descendants, those people on the left whom Trump has emotionally destroyed. It's not me saying the American left has gone round the bend.  It's leftists saying that.  At Salon, there's a lengthy interview with a neuroscientist who explains that Americans "are being psychologically abused by Donald Trump."  The result, he says, is a mental health crisis that will take years to resolve. Chauncey Devega sets the stage for the scientist's pronouncements.  This is not the last four years as you understand them.  It's an...(Read Full Post)