As Callista and I sat in the Rotunda listening to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, I realized that it was among the most revolutionary inaugural addresses in American history.
In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals.
Trump took office in 2017 without the support of much of the institutional Republican party, 1 but came to Washington hoping to become the same lovable host he’d been on TV. Instead, his most substantial opposition came from inside the GOP—people like Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. (And also Jim Mattis, John Kelly, and Rex Tillerson.)
The second term of Donald Trump marks an irreversible collapse of capitalist democracy in America. Only a socialist movement of the working class can provide an alternative.
The initial architect of the horrific “herd immunity” mass infection policy towards the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump is picking up where he left off four years ago and escalating far further.
An honor guard appeared with tricorn hats, fifes and drums — all traditional Revolutionary War iconography ... forget our country,” President Donald Trump said. In summoning people to his ...
While you might question the sophistication of his analysis, Trump was correct about both the physics of the collision (namely, that it could have been avoided if the helicopter had gone either up or down) and the moral valence of the mass casualty event (bad, not good).
The amazing thing about President Trump’s revolutionary rejection of the old order was that it occurred in five different areas. It was decisive in each.
I don’t want these violent repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave,’ Trump said
While most US presidents are merely sworn into office, Donald Trump stormed into Washington this week resembling the commander of a liberating army.
The question is no longer whether Trumpism will survive beyond Trump; the question is how Trumpism will continue to evolve and whether American democracy is prepared for its next phase.
A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.