Words for Future Historians

Unalphabatized here are words historians will certainly use 50 years from now when they write the terrible history of these times — terrible being but an example of the words that capture what has happened to this country and seemingly will continue for  more time to come.

Imbecile, imbecilic crazy ,nuts, scary, moronic, moron, imbecility, lunatic, lunacy, ignoramus, ignorant, dumb, stupid, maniac, maniacal, sadistic, sadist, fool, foolish, ignoble, idiot, idiotic, weird, bizarre, reprehensible; catastrophe, catastrophic.

Base, evil, devil, asinine, ass, insane, conniving, conniver, clown, clownish, disaster, disastrous, demented, grim, grime, grimy, gross; corrupt, corrupting, corrupted, crank.

Misery, miserable, misanthrope, misogynist, racist, sexist, misogynistic, bigot, bigoted, bigotry; calamity, calamitous, horrid, horrible, awful, atrocious, contemptible, crude, cruel, leach, leche, lecherous.

Nasty, nastier, nastiest; rude, rudest, rudely, wicked, inhuman, inhuman, crazy, putrid, contemptible; liar, lying, lied.

There are yet more but many if not all of these will be necessary to describe what Nov. 8, 2016 led to – though where it will end is now impossible to know but certain to be — and there’s that word again — terrible.

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