TRUMP: Why they’re dancing

One of the more insightful comments from the post election chatter was, “Try to do your job in a way that if you lose it, people will not be dancing in the streets all over the world.” Of course this is solid advice no matter what you do for a living.

But the phenomenon itself is worth some reflection. Only one other event in the last 100 years precipitated this kind of worldwide reaction: The end of World War II.

While comparisons of Trump to Hitler are spotty at best there is a reason why the reaction to their respective defeats was identical. Our European friends have seen this before. They know what dictatorship looks like and where it can go. Many of them came here to escape it. And many of us are the children and grandchildren of those who went back to Europe and fought and died to put an end to it. We knew it then. We said it then. We acted on it.

Our mission was to save democracy from totalitarianism. The line was obvious. Even a child could see it. And we danced in the streets when it was over.

Life has its ironies. Sometimes its easier to see a thing from 10,000 miles away, than it is to recognize it in your own backyard.

STEPHEN D. BRUNO

Dalton Gardens