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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, Trump, Not on Our Watch - The New York Times
When Barack Obama was in office remember the good old days, just over a week ago, when we didnt wake up every morning and wonder what new atrocity was emanating from the White House Republicans were apoplectic about his use of executive orders. They called them unilateral edicts and power grabs. As Iowa Senator Charles Grassley once said in a floor speech: The president looks more and more like a king that the Constitution was designed to replace.
What a difference a week makes.
Now many of those Republicans are as quiet as church mice as Donald Trump pumps out executive orders at a fevered pitch, doing exactly what he said hed do during the campaign, for all of those who were paying attention: advancing a white nationalist agenda and vision of America, whether that be by demonizing blacks in the inner city, Mexicans at the border or Muslims from the Middle East.
Trumps America is not America: not todays or tomorrows, but yesterdays.
Trumps 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/no-trump-not-on-our-watch.html?rref=collection/column/charles-m-blow&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&mtrref=t.umblr.com&gwh=92FE039C829E0A57DD5856A9A8C5EC32&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
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No, Trump, Not on Our Watch - The New York Times (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2017
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BSdetect
(8,998 posts)1. I knew that a decade ago
Am I psychic or is my IQ just higher than my age?
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)3. You left out that Trump's America is also about profits and tax breaks for the extremely wealthy!