Goodbye to All of this. Apologies to Joan Didion.

In roughly six hours I will be boarding a plane that will after a two-hour flight My brilliant, gorgeous, most likely, probably is, wife and I will board another plane which will take us to Portugal.

Durning the next five weeks we will be searching for a new home in a new land.

Why, why are we leaving the place of our birth for what for us will be unknown territory?

One word.

Trump.

Tomorrow the United States of Americia will place in power a man who has gleefully announced his desire to be a one-day dictator. No dictator in history has every given up their power after one day. It doesn't happen.

Trump and his team of testosterone seeking frat bros are reportedly planning on Tuesday to launch massive cross-country raid with emphasize on my current hometown of Chicago seeking to find illegal immigrants to deport. ' A policy with severe economic and moral repercussions.

Let's be clear no white European is going to be round-up in this process. Black and Brown people will be picked up and deported with unrestrained glee.

It is very unlikely the people in charge or the folks who will have to take the practical steps to fulfill their twisted commands will care much about legalities or even whether the people being arrested are in fact immigrants. The policy will quickly degenerate into a, he's look funny to me, better take' um in standard.

There's also Health policy which will be overseen by RFK jr. Which may be appropriate given that he is not a well man.

but the fish really does rot from the head down and the coming collapse of Americia is absolutely about the orange Thanos taking a header.

Trump is not a well man. At least not mentally. One could go over the astounding number of wacky ideas that have spewed out his overworked esophagus in years since rode that garish golden escalator.

That would, however, miss the larger point.

Trump may be the current leader of this right-wring populist moment, but he's not the engine.

The engine for this disaster isn't Trump. It's his voters. If Trump put down his scepter and walked away his mob would find another to fall in hate with. (J.D. Vance anyone?)

I am leaving America because over the least 20 years a majority of American's have spiritually already left. After surveying the changes wrought by the social movements of the 1960's a slim, but firm majority have decided to screw themselves over, so that they might be assured that people who look different than them won't be running the show. Also, that uppity woman will not be charge. Because if powerful woman take power, well, all the Viagra in the world won't save them.

That is in shorthand is why in a few hours I will be leaving for Portugal. Why in five weeks I will be coming back, pack my stuff and leave for good.

So long America. You deserved so much better. You settled for so much less.