All along the injured coast

It's been unspeakably depressing to watch the goons in the 21st Century Republican Party dismantle most of our country's great institutions. It's gotten so bad that I've had to stop writing about it.

But I never thought I'd see the day when their poison would spread to the Oregon Coast. That's truly sacred ground for so many of us, and far enough out of the way that you'd think it would be spared. But now they're preparing to defile it, as they have in so many other places. The situation merits at least a few words.

It seems that the heavies who are pulling the strings in the White House have decided that the Coast Guard will be the next set of troops annexed into Orange Caligula's Gestapo. They're probably in the process of rewriting the duties of the service men and women who save lives along the coastline, putting them to work instead on the terrible missions of breaking up immigrant families and harassing all who would question Dear Leader.

Then there is the imminent stationing of border patrol jackboots in and around Lincoln County. The White House flunkies are actively looking for places to put hundreds of them up for at least a year. And they're scouting acreage for some sort of installation that will no doubt include a detention camp.

Some of the locals are pushing back, but there's a lot of poverty in that part of the state, not to mention gun nuts and other MAGA loyalists. And so it's not unlikely that our tin pot dictator will find someone desperate enough, cruel enough, dumb enough, or some combination thereof, to take the bait. Sadly, the cabal in charge of America will probably get the toehold they seek on our beautiful beaches amd estuaries. It will be a tragedy beyond measure to see that area marred so obscenely by the ugliness that is Trumpism. Let's hope that no one gets killed, at least.