The Corpse Of A Nation -News from Underground, Evan Fields

[GigiLeigh]

https://newsfromunderground.substack.com/p/the-corpse-of-a-nation

Donald Trump is decomposing in public. We are watching it happen in real time, in 4K, under stadium lights that make his foundation glow like a radioactive shrimp left too long in the Walmart freezer, a bruised orange that refuses to listen to a sell by date. His Big Mac body sways at the podium, each joint in mutiny against him, as if cartilage itself has declared independence. He was once the American id in a suit; now he is the republic’s circulatory system, clogged and swollen, pushing sludge through arteries that no longer know what they’re for. And the terrifying, hilarious thing is that this, exactly this — the wobbling, the sweat, the trembling fists — has become our national con of strength: democracy as a bloated man, lumbering up a ramp, stitched together with spray tan and diaper straps, begging the crowd to clap so he doesn’t collapse like his ego

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And here’s the point: this isn’t about one man’s failing body. Trump is America, and America is Trump. What does it mean for a democracy to rot from the inside out? It looks like this: a swollen figurehead, grotesque and stumbling, still insisting on immortality while every organ gives way. The Constitution is written on skin like this — sagging, stretched thin, unable to contain the weight it bears. The courts shuffle like his gait. The legislature wheezes like his lungs. The people prop themselves up in orthopedic shoes, clinging to the myth that their system is working for them. The strongman doesn’t conceal the sickness; he embodies it.

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ORGAN FAILURE // CRITICAL
If Trump’s body is the mask of the nation, then its institutions are the organs underneath and they are failing one by one. The makeup hides nothing. The paint cracks, the sweat streaks, the body staggers. The truth is inside, and it’s dying. A republic is a body, and America’s is riddled with organ failure.

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A TIME TO HEAL
The burial is over. The casket is in the ground. The flags are folded, the cameras are gone, the chants echo into silence. The corpse of Trump and the diseased body politic he symbolized are behind us now, sealed beneath the Earth. And with that, one era ends.

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Because only in that grave is the space cleared for something new. For years we have lived inside a hospice state, drugged by slogans, pacified by appearances, staggering along in denial. That chapter is finished. The burial is our release. Now comes the work of imagining another way forward — not embalmed in branding or caked in cosmetics. Not filtered through billionaires and parties that treat politics like theater. A democracy with the people at its center, not the corpse of one man. This is not naive optimism. It is the fact of history. Bodies fail, systems collapse, but life does not stop. Out of decay comes growth. Out of silence comes speech. Out of burial comes the chance to begin again. The old republic has been lowered into the earth; the new one will be built not in marble halls but in neighborhoods, in workplaces, in communities where people finally see each other instead of a mask held up onstage.

A long read but really good.

Evan Fields is a veteran who runs the Substack "News from Underground." He is featured on Lincoln Square's Substack with a weekly column reaching out to young men called" Fourth and Democracy.". He is one of those independent media voices that are trying to find their footing. If you are on substack, check him out and maybe subscribe if you are interested in what he has to say.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Yes Trump is the mirror image of the USA.

A rotting corpse.