“Time Wounds All Heels!” This play on an old cliché says it all about Donald Trump’s likely future. Here is just a peek at the legal mine-field and other sand traps that lie ahead for him.
For the past year, Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, and a number of other Republican operatives have been spreading the canard that the Bidens represent a criminal enterprise. Seriously! It’s time to pin the tail on the right donkey. In fact, it’s an elephant!
It’s especially egregious (and punishable) when the perpetrator is the President of the United States. He has betrayed his oath, his country, and the generations that have built it.
Does Democracy Have a Soul? It has to do with how the citizens view themselves, and their society, and how they relate to their government – and vice versa. It is a shared state of mind.
The Psychopathology of Fascism Shakespeare nailed it in Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves…” Enter Donald Trump, stage right.
Not since the Watergate tapes has there been such a trove of direct evidence about a President’s private conduct. It could well be that Trump is a puppet of Putin. Or maybe not. Either way, the Putin tapes will be historic, if they survive.
His crypto fascism has done a lot of damage to our democracy, but he is also failing at it –for various reasons. If there were a fascist hall of fame, Donald Trump would certainly be qualified for membership. Where do we begin?Trump has been notably less successful at it than his notorious predecessors and contemporaries – at least so far. There are a number of reasons for this.
