[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues meeting to Discuss I Should Have Seen This Coming

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today’s Issues group will meet Sunday, April 27 because of a special
interest in discussing an essay by David Brooks, a conservative columnist,
called I Should Have Seen This Coming
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OM17XANYZVHAzags993DRT5o5fpNJSReXAveazNaFA/edit?usp=sharing>.
It discusses his history in a conservative movement polarized between those
who took the theories seriously and those who just wanted to overwhelm
liberals and take power.  It goes on to discuss Trump and the MAGA movement
as a realization of George Orwell’s vision of a movement that seeks power
entirely for its own sake without any vision of the good. He ends with an
argument that Trump is doomed to fail and a discussion of what comes next.
The essay is well worth reading even if you don’t plan to come to the
Today’s Issues discussion.  It is in the May 2025 issue of The Atlantic of
you can read it here:  I Should Have Seen This Coming
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OM17XANYZVHAzags993DRT5o5fpNJSReXAveazNaFA/edit?usp=sharing>
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If you’ve read I Should Have Seen This Coming
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OM17XANYZVHAzags993DRT5o5fpNJSReXAveazNaFA/edit?usp=sharing>.,
you might also want to read this column by Brooks:  Trump’s Single Stroke
of Brilliance
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/10cSLnKIOSYjO7F6kU0zJWwK2RYojIfQU05s1Jpm0TCQ/edit?usp=sharing>.
To give away the punch line, his stroke of brilliance is his decisiveness,
acting quickly and powerfully (although not thoughtfully).  Brooks argues
Democrats have to respond quickly and intuitively.

The Today’s Issues discussion group meets on occasional Sunday mornings in
person in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the
Unitarian Universalist Church at 232 Third St. in Marietta or you can join
us on Zoom.  Click Here to Enter the Zoom Room
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09>
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