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“If the president’s assault on democracy seems to remote for most Americans, don’t worry . . . (Trump) has repeatedly tried to leverage his office to punish what he calls ‘Democratic states’ - those where the majority voted for Hillary…
In these pages, I’ve done my best to provide an unvarnished assessment of Donald Trump and his presidency based on my own observations and experience, not baseless rumors. === Removing my identity from the equation deprives him of an…
Athens was the cautionary tale of how self-government could go wrong. It was an example of “direct democracy,” a society where the majority ruled and where citizens participated personally in the assembly, voting on the issues of the day…
Let’s say April 1, 2018. That week his Papers will record that the president blasted ABC News, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and the Washington Post ( all individually ) as “fake news”; blamed online retailer Amazon for stores closing “all over…
When you bump into former officials in the course of Washington business, they ask what it’s like to operate in this type of environment. I’ll tell you. It’s like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak to find your elderly uncle…
What is troubling about the president is not that he came into office with so little information about how it runs. It’s that he’s done so little to try to learn more in order to do his job. === A Washington Post analysis found that after…
Kellyanne Conway unintentionally summed up this Trumpian philosophy beautifully. She went on Meet the Press and was forced to defend the president’s absurd boast about having the largest ever crowd at his inauguration. To be clear, the…
The most recent study found “there is virtually no common ground in the priorities that rise to the top of the lists” between the two sides. Democratic respondents said our nation’s biggest challenges were health care, education, the…
He once said, “See, I don’t think that the mainstream media is free speech either because it’s so crooked. It’s so dishonest. So to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad. To me, that’s very…
We all know that people are dumber and crueler in large groups. Trump plays this to his advantage by directing the violent energy toward whatever careless end he wishes. When the pixelated pitchforks get raised, truth becomes the first…
Many other elected conservatives chimed in throughout the campaign, calling the Republican nominee a “bigot,” “misogynist,” “liar,” “unintelligent,” “inarticulate,” “dangerous,” “fraud,” “bully,” and “unfit” for the presidency. One…
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of…
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of…
In the midst of the Second World War, Austrian intellectual Friedrich Hayek published The Road to Serfdom, describing how free societies descend into totalitarianism. Hayek’s tenth chapter, “Why the Worst Get on Top,” offered a description…
For some appointees, the “power” they want is financial. Aides openly discuss how one political position or another will translate into post-government dollars. Some believe an ongoing connection to Trump World offers opportunities for a…
GOP support him because he is at the helm, not because of what he believes. In fact, they support him regardless of what he believes. He has created a true cult of personality. Whether he is right or wrong, the tribe must protect him, even…
The Sycophant’s motives are a combination of “power” and “tribalism,” which is why, when the president asks them to do something wrong-headed, they won’t flinch. His ethics are their ethics. === The Silent Abettors know what’s happening is…
Senator Ted Cruz, who once labeled Trump immoral and ill-suited for the presidency, now tells rally-goers that the president’s decisions are “bold” and “courageous” — that he’s proud “to have worked hand in hand with President…
The verdict is in. Despite some accomplishments, it’s evident Donald Trump is behaving immorally, weakening the party he professes to lead, undermining democratic institutions, abandoning crucial US alliances, emboldening our adversaries,…
A psychological phenomenon is affecting a large portion of the country. Some call it “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS). If this were a clinical diagnosis, it would best be characterized as the disturbance in normal cognitive function…
The voters must review the president’s conduct and decide whether Donald Trump is fit for office, whether he embodies the American spirit, and whether we will allow the behavior of one man to define us as a whole. The solemn responsibility…
The Trump administration is an unmitigated catastrophe, and the responsibility rests entirely at his feet, the predictable outcome of assigning organizational leadership to a man of weak morals. What is more regrettable is that his faults…
United States was attacked in 2016. This time, the hijackers were hackers, and the president was Donald Trump. After Russia’s deliberate and coordinated assault on US democratic elections, recall that Trump downplayed the incident and…
To start with, we need to restore a climate of truth by clearing the air of misinformation and changing how we report, consume, and share news so we aren’t living in different realities. We must also re-learn the art of “agreeing to…
“When you’re going down a dirt road and see a turtle atop a fence post, chances are that turtle didn’t get there by itself.” === America’s past is its lodestar. Every lesson we need for renewing our country is there, waiting to be…