I am so disturbed by the election of Trump that I am still having difficulty sleeping at night.  The list of actions that I anticipate from him, that will do real damage to our country, is long.  It seems clear that the gap between rich and poor will grow wider, that millions of latinos will be rounded up and deported in police raids, that race relations will worsen, that women’s rights will be abridged, that science and research investments will be eviscerated and so on.  Republican control of the Supreme Court means that efforts to restrict the corporate purchase of our democracy by lobbying and massive influxes of money won’t prosper.  Nor will efforts to prevent gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement. Above all, I fear that Trump’s dismantling of the efforts to combat global warming will help tip the planet past an irreversible turning point of climate change that will endanger human civilization.  But Luke, to compare Trump to Hitler is facile, distracting and over the top.