I’m reminded that it’s now eight years since I wrote this song:

At that point, it was easy for some to say that we didn’t know what was coming. I think it’s less easy now. Even so, the temptation remains to think that these men don’t really mean to implement the things they’ve talked about in election campaigns, that to do so would be crazy. But we live in crazy times alongside crazy people and the line between crazy and sane isn’t as clear cut as we’d wish in any of us. Neither is it as straightforward to diagnose in others as seeing whether a person cast their ballot the way we agree with or not.

I updated this song a little when I released it as part of “Half A Pound Of Monkeybread” – in particular, I wanted to point at fascism where others saw bufoonery. If more bufoonery is all we get, I’ll be very glad to be proved wrong.