But I must admit I can no longer rule it out as impossible.

But I do know one thing for a fact, and the events of the last year have completely convinced me. The selling and betrayal of America, whether deliberate and planned or just as the final result of a long and complex series of interrelated events, is a small price to pay for what the Conservatives really want. No, its not racism, or misogyny, or homophobia, or xenophobia, or even the abolition of abortion rights. Those were just concessions they had to make to their allies for their support.

What they really wanted was economic, the guarantee that they would not have to pay for anything that did not benefit them directly. They gutted Obamacare, dismantled EPA, gave organized Labor the final coup de grace and they got their corporate tax cut. Everything else they may do (or not do) from now on will be to secure and extend those gains.

And now the stage is set for the final assault on the New Deal.