Today, trump “confirmed reports that he plans to declare a national emergency to enact a mass deportation program” although he “did not offer any details on his plans.” [FN1] There’s no hue & cry, such as met demands that trump be stopped from dictatorship. Let’s review: 1/7

trump:

1) has promised to be a dictator;

2) says he’ll declare a nat’l emergency;

3) about immigration, that he exacerbated to preserve as a campaign issue;

4) in 63 days;

5) as evidence of…

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Putin is showing the rest of the World that he

1) owns trump;

2) made a mockery of our free elections;

3) interfered w/ our elections by:

a) hacking computer systems (cyber warfare);

b) channeling money to campaigns through

corporations;

c) propaganda presented as “news”;

d) blackmail & extortion (a/k/a “kompromat”); and

e) bribery.

4) used our devotion to rule of law against us to delay

action that would prevent trump…

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In high school, we were taught: Neville Chamberlain, Britain’s Prime Minister, in 1938 missed a chance to stop Hitler by appeasing der Fuehrer. Chamberlain held in the air a paper Hitler had signed & declared “peace in our time.” [FN1] No one questioned that Hitler was evil. 1/8



No one explained, and we had little understanding of, how the U.S. was spared devastation on a scale such as WWI inflicted on Europe. A 500-mile gash of trenches ran from Switzerland to Belgium. [FN2]… Continue