Tag: Donald Trump

How We Got Here

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo really “hits the nail on the head”

None of this had to happen. It is a failure of cataclysmic proportions. It has many roots. It has revealed many insufficiencies and failures in our society and institutions. But the scale of it, the unifying force of it is a man who never should have been president, who has abandoned his responsibility to lead and protect the country, making it every state for itself, a chaos only organized by a shiftless and shambling effort to help himself at all costs at every point.

Why Trump is Losing in the Supreme Court

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Writing in The Atlantic Neal K. Katyal, Former Acting Solicitor General of the United States, and Joshua A. Geltzer, Executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, provide an analysis of Trump’s recent defeats in the Supreme Court. The main take away: the decisions seem to be based on technical details but actually reveal the Court’s concern over the President’s abuse of his position.

Trump keeps losing not because of something obscure, but because of something fundamental: his abuse of the executive branch. Much of his administration’s approach to governance rests on attempting executive actions that lack any meaningful justification rooted in expertise, or even rational thought.

The whole article is worth reading.

Why Trump Keeps Losing at the Supreme Court – The Atlantic

POTUS needs a plan

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Thomas Friedman pens an open letter to the President.

The gist of his message:

You need a plan.

And here is what is also obvious: There is a high degree of agreement among leading public health experts on the contours of what could become a three-step “Trump plan.”

By embracing their strategic approach as your own and sticking by it — not going off on tangents every day in your White House briefings — you would deliver what the public craves most in the short run: the confidence that we actually have a plan to fight this virus, save everyone we can and rapidly reopen the economy based on science and data.

Let’s hope the President heeds this advice.