At twelve, I stumbled into a corner of the internet where curiosity was enough to get me in the door. Years later, after quietly retreating from social media, I’m trying to make a place of my own—and find out what I think by writing it down.
I've said before that so much of this administration makes sense if you think of the President as something like an abuser. And as anyone who Studies Domestic Violence knows, the most dangerous time for someone in an abusive relationship is when they're about to leave. So it goes for us. We're beginning the process of breaking from this man's grasp, and he is reacting the way you would expect an abuser to react.