NERO NATION
By Justin Frank, MD
Originally written in July 2001. I revisited this essay and found it very relevant to American political life in 2021, especially to the media’s coverage of our disgraced and dangerous ex-president Trump.
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong…