Posted on 09/17/2018 8:19:11 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
t’s been nearly two years since Donald Trump won enough Electoral College votes to become president of the United States. On the day after, in my concession speech, I said, “We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.” I hoped that my fears for our future were overblown.
They were not.
In the roughly 21 months since he took the oath of office, Trump has sunk far below the already-low bar he set for himself in his ugly campaign. Exhibit A is the unspeakable cruelty that his administration has inflicted on undocumented families arriving at the border, including separating children, some as young as eight months, from their parents. According to The New York Times, the administration continues to detain 12,800 children right now, despite all the outcry and court orders. Then there’s the president’s monstrous neglect of Puerto Rico: After Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, his administration barely responded. Some 3,000 Americans died. Now Trump flatly denies those deaths were caused by the storm. And, of course, despite the recent indictments of several Russian military intelligence officers for hacking the Democratic National Committee in 2016, he continues to dismiss a serious attack on our country by a foreign power as a “hoax.”
Trump and his cronies do so many despicable things that it can be hard to keep track. I think that may be the point—to confound us, so it’s harder to keep our eye on the ball. The ball, of course, is protecting American democracy. As citizens, that’s our most important charge. And right now, our democracy is in crisis.
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Translation: I am in crisis
Democracy is predicated upon the candidates and the voters accepting the result of a democratic election. Hillary refuses to to do that. Hilary is undermining democracy.
PS - America is a constitutional representative republic, not a democracy.
Yes Hitlery, our Democracy is in crisis because we have a bunch of totalitarian Marxists trying to destroy our Constitution, destroy individual freedoms, destroy American tradition and institutions, destroy American rule of law, and have a fascist government....
Yes Hitlery, you are right for once. You criminal hag.
Is ANYTHING this woman says not a lie?
The day that this horrible shrew kicks the bucket, I’m going to throw a big party.
This ‘woman’ needs serious, sustained public ridicule and a professional psychotherapist. Let’s give her what she’s crying out for.
WE ARE A REPUBLIC!!
The Democrats and Bush League Republicans are trying mightily to destroy it.
The Kenyanesian Usurpation showed they have no regard for the Constitution.
BARACK OBAMA IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
BOTH parties conspired to violate the Constitution.
The day that this horrible shrew kicks the bucket, I’m going to throw a big party.
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I’ll be there.
Slip sliding away
I trust nobody here read this garbage
She’s upset that she’s been exposed for what she is, which is the opposite of anything good and decent.
Me thinks thou dost protest too much, you wicked witch.
Only six people read the Atlantic, and two of them are looking for coupons.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Trump, and Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, and all the Republicans, in the kingdom of Washington, and you yourself thrust out.
Perhaps what we need is *mandatory* voting...failure to do so would carry a 5 year prison stretch.And secret ballots? Racist! Everyone should be publicly accountable for their vote.
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