In the February darkness, a glimpse into a terrifying moment unlike any other in our history…

But these are not portents I sense in the February night. The peril is upon us and as far as I can tell, few are prepared for it, fewer still call it what it is, and even fewer seem willing to do anything to stop it.

A new government in Washington is dismantling our democracy. Piece by piece. With hammer blows and shivs and clubs and with memos and executive orders and the complicity of political leaders who do not lead. Greed and self-interest and hate and ignorance are at work everywhere you look.

An assault on the role of the Congress is relegating it to merely a role supporting an all-power executive and the majority in both houses is willingly going along with it. The treacherous and the ill-equipped and the repugnant are being put in charge of great government agencies without regard to the threat they pose. (Why? Ask the members of Congress who are making judgments based on their own political well-being and who have set their oaths alight, sending them off as charred embers into the wind.)