Charles M. Blow: No, Trump, Not on Our Watch

[babylonsister]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/no-trump-not-on-our-watch.html?_r=0

No, Trump, Not on Our Watch
Charles M. Blow JAN. 30, 2017


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Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.

And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide. That is a vision of America that has galvanized ordinary American citizens in opposition in a way that is almost without precedent. We are inching toward anarchy as both the people and the president refuse to back down.

Not only is Trump a literacy-lite, conspiracy-chasing, compulsively lying bigot, he is also a narcissistic workaholic who now wields the power of the presidency. You could not have conceived of a more dangerous combination of characteristics. He is the paragon of the clueless and an idol of the Ku Kluxers. Already, people feel deluged by a never-ending flood of national damage and despair. But Americans are not prone to suffering in silence. America’s period of mourning has ended; the time of anger and active opposition has dawned. The greatest two motivators of electoral activism in this country are a desire for change and durable fear: In Trump, those two are wed.

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America will not stand for this, so if obsequious conservative politicians or lily-livered liberal ones won’t sufficiently stand up to this demagogic dictator, then the American people will do the job themselves.

Over the weekend, protesters spontaneously popped up at airports across the country to send an unambiguous message: Not in our name; not on our watch. It is my great hope that this will be a permanent motif of Trump’s term. If no one else is going to fight for American values, it falls to the American people themselves to do so.

[-Steph-]

1. Excellent article. Thank you for sharing!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Is there any doubt that Donald J. Trump

upends every apple cart he encounters to make it suitable for himself?

He's shredding the U.S. Constitution one day at a time

Contempt of court is the end of Rule of Law

Impeachable offense

Immediately

And if it happened he would probably schmooze his way around it

[Timmygoat]

3. re Trump

I have been reading reports that President Bannon from Breitbart is making decisions, including
the one we have just seen. Also, when it was put into action Trump was watching a movie.

[TrekLuver]

5. Ironically a movie about a fish searching for it's family. Meanwhile it's happening across

town in real life. I'm afraid that a lot of these anti Muslim folks don't see them as people they think the are all...YES ALL...animals.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Meanwhile, while the people were rightly protesting this executive order

the National Security Council was purged and it seems that Steve Bannon is in charge there, too.

So, it is basically Trump, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller controlling everything.

[babylonsister]

6. But there's all kinds of red flags going up, re: Bannon.

This isn't over.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Yes. This isn't just about the ban itself...it is about an already dysfunctional, unusual, and

dangerous mix of an extraordinarily intellectually lazy leader who has surrounded himself with people who do not have our best interests at heart. And these people are there as a reward for their support during the election. Trump's mind can not seem to think beyond a simple idea. He is a typical Fox News viewer who believes every piece of propaganda they spew.

[NewJeffCT]

9. the people around Trump

are not idiots - they're pretty sharp.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Yes, Smart and conniving. All they have to do is to figure out how to pull the strings right. They

are now still amateur puppet masters.

[delisen]

7. Reince Priebus knows what is happening and is now part of it.

He may be still telling Republicans in congress that he is acting to keep the administration from making a mess-but going along with what has happened this week means he is part of it.

[brer cat]

11. K&R