Jeezum Crow! Way to take a GREAT title – “The Full Vermonty” – and squander it.

Look, we’re all for more gadfly’esque humor in these interesting times, and longtime Vermont author Bill Mares and cartoonist Jeff Danziger have excelled at bringing us the giggles in the past. In their latest comedic work, they assemble an impressive cast of Vermont characters to humorously reflect on how Vermonters might best respond to a Trump presidency. The BIG problem with their chuckle-filled analysis is their collective confusion re: the current POTUS (DJT is a grotesque response to 40 years of neoliberal globalist austerity, courtesy of the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas and their ilk) with the US of Empire as a whole.

Here’s their online summary of their book:

What were you thinking?  Donald Trump as our president?  You’re kidding, right? Vermont has withstood the Revolution, a New York invasion and the New Hampshire Land Grants and will assuredly survive the next few years under the Washington axis of evil, a.k.a. the Trump Administration, Congress and Supreme Court.

We are a small state with a history of making a large impact. We banned billboards and went to great lengths to protect our natural resources, as well as our natural beauty. We’ll be damned if we’re going to let a man who dyes his hair, cheats workers and has his products made in China dictate to us how life should be. Life in Vermont is already great. A man who lies as easily as the average Vermonter catches fish is not someone we’re going to spend much time listening to.

That said, we recognize that we can’t ignore him and his actions. Then again, he won’t be able to ignore us, either. We’re little, but we’re loud, and we’re not afraid to elect New Yorker, Bernie Sanders, to carry our message nationwide.  Mr. Trump may see himself as a western version of Vladimir Putin, but we don’t see him as such. He’s just a bully used to stiffing banks (Vermonters make their payments), stiffing his subcontractors (we pay them, because we’re related to most of them), and treating women poorly (we just know better).

Short of seceding from the Union (we’ve already tried that to no avail), you can be sure that we’re not just going to sit back and be bullied, stiffed, railroaded, and abused. That’s not our style. Vermonters fight back; always have and always will. We love a good fight and those who challenge soon learn that Vermont generally wins. We’re tougher than the bully in the White House and he’s about to learn that first hand.

With the help of almost a score of  “guest appearances,” our literary duet has now become a chorus. We have assembled a first-rate “posse” of Vermont writers, cartoonists, and politicians to add their intelligence and wit to this momentous task. In addition, the book has quizzes, quotations, escape literature, a Vermont tool box, and more―all the things necessary to flesh out this thump to The Trump.

Here’s our suggestion. Read The Full Vermonty, and substitute the word “Empire” for “Trump” throughout.

Do so, and their humorous analysis of what’s REALLY going on in imperial politics might make a whole lot more sense.

Free Vermont, and long live the Untied States!