We’ve already got one: it’s called the Democrats. Published on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 byCommon Dreams I used to be cautious about making predictions. This is partly because history is a complex, open system and predictions almost always come to grief in some important detail. It is also hard to take seriously the Chris Matthews…
Trump Was No Fluke: George W. Bush Blazed the Trail
Published on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 by Common Dreams – Link to article His lies and incompetence created epic disasters that may yet sink America. In terms of creating disasters, Trump has nothing on George W. Bush. (Photo: Kevin Lamarque/AFP/Getty Images) My friend and former colleague Bruce Bartlett has done a service by reminding us that after four…
Damnatio Memoriae: The First Step to Recovery in a Post-Trump America
To get beyond the present crisis, we must undo his crimes and follies. Published on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 by Common Dreams Link to article “After Domitian’s death the senate appointed Nerva to rule and it condemned Domitian’s memory (damnatio memoriae)”—Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. III In a previous piece,…
A Modest Proposal to Prevent Sabotage by the Trump Regime
Biden must call on federal workers to ignore illegal orders and faithfully serve the Constitution. Published on Monday, October 12, 2020 Common Dreams Link to article For complex historical reasons, Federal employees don’t get much love. Republicans already had begun their war on expertise nearly 90 years ago, when they condemned the New Deal…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Peril of America’s Aging Elite
We all should know when to pass the baton to a younger generation. Published on Friday, September 25, 2020 by Common Dreams – Link to article “The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” Charles de Gaulle is reputed to have said. Despite the mordant wisdom most of us see in that statement, an alarming number…
Is Trump a Murderer?
The Woodward tapes provide the evidence: the president committed political genocide. Published on Thursday, September 10, 2020 by Common Dreams (link) A consistent rule of the Trump presidency is that no matter the subject, the retrospective evidence will demonstrate that Donald Trump’s actions, and those of his appointees, were more twisted and criminal than…
Trump Supports the Troops, Alright!
Who cares if they’re Nazis in the Waffen-SS? Published on Friday, September 17, 2020 by Common Dreams – Link to article Since the campus anti-Vietnam war disturbances of the 1960s and 70s, Republicans have pretty much owned the whole patriotic magilla, including support of our troops. In the last four years, that reputation has come…