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kpete

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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:08 AM Jan 2017

No, 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 didn’t 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 he’d 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.

Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s.

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.


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&region=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 OP
I knew that a decade ago BSdetect Jan 2017 #1
KNR Lucinda Jan 2017 #2
You left out that Trump's America is also about profits and tax breaks for the extremely wealthy! Dustlawyer Jan 2017 #3
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