December 29, 2017 Ezra Klein notes in his op ed in Vox, commenting on Trump’s recent interview at Mar-A-Lago, that this president of ours, is not well. He is right, but I want to talk about why he is right and how we can understand Trump’s inner world of thought. […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
17 posts
November 17,2017 A president cannot pardon himself. Richard Painter, Norm Eisen and Laurence Tribe clarify this in their article in the Washington Post from July. But here is the next question. Can a president who is an indicted co-conspirator for federal crimes pardon his fellow co-conspirators? I think that will […]
October 27, 2017 Trump makes a lot of people nervous and worried. And for good reason. Recent polls show that most people in this country do not think Trump has the ability to lead our country during a global crisis. Most people think Trump lies. Most think he does not […]
October 26, 2017 There seems to be a lot of bad news out there right now. Bad in the sense that it appears that Trump is winning and Bannon (his sidekick) is like a kid in a candy store with all the candy ready for the taking (although he calls […]
October 22, 2017 Fake news. We have to get better at weeding it out and identifying it. Because it is damaging our political landscape. This NYTimes piece is worth reading because it reminds us that our own biases bolster and energize fake news. If I already believe that Trump is […]
October 16, 2017 Donald Trump is deluded about how effective missile defense systems are. This matters because he has delusional disorder. He is not open to changing his mind even when the facts are irrefutable. In this case, Trump brags that our missiles will shoot down a missile fired by […]
October 11, 2017 Media Matters and American Bridge are two progressive groups that you should know about and, I hope, support. I just returned from Washington, DC where I toured both organizations. Before I learned more about these two groups I did not know what, in fact, they were doing […]
October 8, 2017 Thomas Friedman’s comments are right – we are home alone with a demoralizing and amoral president who is incapable of leading at a time when leadership is sorely needed to enter a new world of challenges and change. Friedman says it is a uniquely bad time to […]
August 15, 2017 Clean up in aisle three. Trump has made a mess of it. Again. Unlike former presidents who usually spoke softly and carried a big stick, Trump speaks loudly and has a little one. (Insecurity is his middle name. I am not referring to the fact that he […]