On vacation I read Live By Night, another Dennis Lahane novel. Set during Prohibition, the book highlights the life of Joe Coughlin, the Tampa Prince who rules the rum running there. A gangster but one with a heart, and if not a soul any longer, one who wishes he still did. It's a good book.
What's caught my eye was a description of the KKK. While set in the early 1900s and published in December of 2016, the passage seems to me to be fitting for Trump. his lackeys, and yes, for the far right and others who voted for him and have continued to vote for him. Oh, I know not all, but really, who at this point can be for this man and not know what he stands for. There is no excuse. None.
A good gangster? Perhaps not, but he sure wasn't on the side of the KKK, and that can't be said for the gangster in the White House today.
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