As we get closer to the presidential election, and Donald Trump increasingly fears he is holding a losing hand, the bizarre description of “American Carnage” in Trump’s inauguration speech in 2017 becomes more ominously an uncanny prediction for 2020. In the 2016 presidential debates, former Florida governor Jeb Bush remarked
Trump’s war on America reminds us of Jonathan Swift’s saying “A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Thomas Jefferson’s version was “Falsehood will travel over the country, while truth is putting on its boots.” …
Barr, Donald Trump, Eric Trump, Larry Kudlow, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, Pompeo, President Trump, RNC, Trump's liesDonald Trump’s anti-democratic war on the Post Office and the Census Bureau has targeted two of the oldest institutions in the country. The Post Office is older than the Constitution, tracing its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress. The Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. …
Census, DeJoy, Donald Trump, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, Post Office, TrumpTrump’s war on arms control and disarmament ignores the destruction and devastation caused seventy-five years ago, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 Japanese and injuring another 100,000. The great fires that raged in each city consumed many of the bodies. If …
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Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr, facing the possibility of less than six months in command, are stepping up their attacks on governance. Five Inspectors General have been removed since April; the Post Office has been placed in the hands of a political ideologue; and …
Attaks on Governance, Donald Trump, Mel-Goodman, Mel's Analyses, Melvin A. Goodman, TrumpWilliam Barr, Trump’s Cat’s Paw, was appointed as Attorney General of the United States in 2019. According to such political texts as How Democracy Dies by Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the first authoritarian step in compromising the rule of law and the rule of …
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Donald Trump crossed a red line that could finally cost him politically. This one is the latest of many he has crossed over the past three and a half years. The trappings of his fascist march to St. John’s Episcopal Church and his blasphemous display of a bible (held backwards …
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Donald Trump’s falsehoods have two parts: first of all, there are the mind-numbing plethora of lies that he spreads from the White House under the headings of “fake news,” “witch hunt,” and “deep state.” Just as damaging is the second part of the campaign to spread disinformation, which is the …
