If you're a writer, research & write stories about anti-fascist resistance. If you're a game designer, make games about resistance. If you're a teacher, teach about the history of resistance.

Every culture worker alive right now has a pressing responsibility to do this. Our lives depend on it

But our president believes that "the state" is inseparable from his person. So none of that counted. Trump demands gratitude *personally*, to *him*.

And any gratitude expressed to America when Trump was not its supreme leader isn't just worthless—he sees it as a betrayal.