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Category: <span>When We Weren’t Looking</span>

Dear Trump Voter, This is the result of your vote.

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} The first 10 days.   As you likely know, during the first 10 days of Trump’s Negative 2.0 Presidency, he rescinded dozens of previous presidents’ (mostly Biden’s) Executive Orders, as well as creating his own, covering a range of categories below.  News summaries couldn’t convey the true essence of the rescissions and orders as well as snippets of the original text below.  Moreover, there are orders which will have broad-reaching consequences and thus were short sighted.  Here are insights and perspective on the most consequential, by topic: Civil Rights & Diversity In 2017, a friend …

Trump Authoritarianism Reading List

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} An astonishing reading list, compiled by a simple Google search: Google Book List – Trump Authoritarianism

How Easy Would it Be for Trump to Destroy Democracy?

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} This is how autocrats do it. Trump with Peeling Wallpaper Flag For the past decade, hundreds of articles and books have warned about the danger Trump poses to our (capital D) Democracy, often citing his similarities to dictators. Hundreds of former staffers and government officials—many from the Defense Department—have denounced Trump for president and warned of the threat he poses to national security.  Even  Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana, said that Donald read a book of Hitler’s speeches (a veritable roadmap),  kept in a bedside cabinet. It’s unprecedented. Yet millions of people are poised to select him …