BRATTLEBORO — Lately I've been envisioning a federal government I could support. This is what some of it would look like:
President, Elizabeth Warren; secretary of state, Michelle Obama; attorney general, Sally Yates; secretary of education, Rachel Maddow; secretary of energy (name changed to secretary of the environment), Kamala Harris; secretary of the interior, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard; Supreme Court associate justice, Toni Morrison; press secretary, Amy Goodman.
Newly created cabinet positions:
Secretary of human rights, Angela Davis; secretary of literature, Margaret Atwood; secretary of singing, Renée Fleming; secretary of theater, Meryl Streep.
The secretary of defense? Gone.
Other administration posts to be filled by all the many nationwide grassroots women activists who don't have name recognition but who kept resisting, on and on and on, until, finally, the end.
By now, you have noticed that my vision includes only women - no men - and you would be right.
Except for Treasury Secretary Bernie Sanders, he who would shepherd a nationwide distribution of wealth so we could be like Denmark. His assistant: Naomi Klein.
And Donald Trump? He was last seen in Russia selling his daughter Ivanka's shoes from a push cart near the Kremlin.
But hark! Here comes Maxine Waters. She is marching, carrying a sign left over from the worldwide Women's March which reads, “Make America Think Again.”
Behind her, chained together, are a bevy of Trump's deplorables: Steve Bannon, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Jared Kushner, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, and - drum roll - Jefferson Beauregard Sessions.
Waters is shepherding these deplorables to a very bigly swamp abandoned in Siberia some years ago.