by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
We have to prepare ourselves for things to get even darker very, very soon. I think we’re going to be surprised in a few days when Trump actually really does, effectively, snatch people off the street.
All the signs point to Trump slowly — and maybe not so slowly — beginning to consolidate power in some pretty unprecedented ways. We haven’t reached the “push people out of windows” stage of things, but we’re getting there.
It could be — at least for now — done in a little less dramatic fashion — TV regulars just go “poof!” never to be seen again. The person I’m must worried about is Stephen Colbert. I watch his show now, on edge, wondering what joke is finally going to get Trump to pull the trigger on purging him from the airwaves.
Because you know that’s coming. I think American late night TV is probably going to be radically changed by the end of the year. Even to the point that SNL is either revamped or ended altogether.
And, of course, I have to worry about myself. I’m growing more and more nervous about my own fate. I’m just a nobody in the middle of nowhere. And, yet, who knows, maybe the regime would want to make an example out of me.
