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The net effect is the gathering sense that America, under this president is not, and cannot be a reliable ally, or source of just and reasonable guidance in a world in urgent need of it. There is no comfort in the fact that our president has put himself, and thereby all of us, in a no-win situation, by presuming upon instincts that amount to a combination of meanness and whim. We absolutely need better than that.

Moldering on my refrigerator door is a browned 3-by-4-inch newsprint clipping of a single frame from Max Fleischer’s animated cartoon “KoKo’s Earth Control”, dated (c.) 1928.  In the frame, KoKo the clown is lecturing his dog Fitz about the huge lever imbedded in the wall behind him below a sign proclaiming, “Danger, beware, do not touch earth control!  If this handle is pulled, the world will come to an end!”