That which Brooks asserts makes Trumpism inevitable is the Meritocracy, specifically it's devolution into an institution that doesn't reward ability, but instead perpetuates an exclusivity based on an education that few can afford and less can benefit from. Most of us reading this essay might benefit from reflecting on what Brooks has to say here.

So let's enjoy the victories won this week and remember how much work remains. The feds have done their job, there's no reasonable way that Trump can escape the 78 individual charges against him. As our National government applies the law, the lessons, and the precedents of our history to our current problem, what does American Culture have to say about curbing the excesses of the Meritocracy? Is there a Groundswell of Voices to lend support to this action and direction to the next? Emphatically yes! I believe this effort is spontaneously underway.

The place I'd like to start is Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, since 1938, embodying all that's wonderful about Americana. America during the depression was a cauldron of contradictory urges and efforts, several that were dark. The KKK and the American Nazi Movement marauded in our land with the same impunity that the Proud Boys and the NRA display today. In his play

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