Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Trump's Divine Fate | TomDispatch

Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Trump's Divine Fate | TomDispatch: Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Trump's Divine Fate Posted by Ariel Dorfman at 7:44am, October 22, 2020. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. In case you hadn’t noticed, they wear masks in hell. I didn’t know that myself until this year. On the best evidence around, however, like most Americans, I’m now in a circle of hell. I feel it particularly when I’m out on streets that are starting to chill down, not heat up, as winter arrives (however slowly) and a pandemic spike in Covid-19 cases heads our way, as hospitals fill, panic grows, and the president from... well, hell... assures us that, by hook or crook (crook being perhaps the operative word here), in 2021 he plans to oversee the greatest economic comeback in history. And mind you, I’m thinking about this nightmare while out walking New York City’s streets half-blind as my glasses, just above that mask of mine, fog up with my own breath. I have no doubt that it’s the fog of hell as, at my advanced age, my friends are increasingly isolated and alone in a city, a country, a world under siege. And bad as it might have been, it didn’t truly have to be this way, not if we had a president who cared for any of us even faintly, even