“Democrats badly underestimated Trump’ according to this column.
He’s right. I don’t agree with Trump but he has done a lot to change the country. It’s going to take a long time to undo the damage once we get a Democratic president and congress. I didn’t anticipate that Congressional Republicans would fold and meekly go along with Trump. They’re afraid to cross him. They won’t even call him out on lies and bigotry most of the time.
I haven’t forgotten that Trump won’t release his tax returns. What is he hiding? Is he getting income in rubles? Congress should pass a law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns.
If he wasn’t willing to release his returns, he shouldn’t have run for president.
This article notes that there is “…a rarely used provision in the Internal Revenue Code that lets the chairman of Ways and Means, Senate Finance or the Joint Committee on Taxation request anyone’s tax returns — including the president’s — from the Treasury secretary. ”
Old articles
He wrote “For the President to say the [European Union] was ‘set up to take advantage of the United States, to attack our piggy bank,’ or that ‘NATO is as bad as NAFTA’ is not only factually wrong, but proves to me that it’s time to go.”
This deal failed because Trump couldn’t get financing. Sad!
This column by Greg Sargent addresses the civility issue. He is write to blame Trump as the root of the problem.
He writes: “…we cannot seriously debate the “civility” question without placing the role of Trump’s deliberate provocations in causing all the anger front and center.
Trump’s own advisers have explicitly said they see stirring up anger around immigration and race as a political strategy. Stephen Miller called this “constructive controversy — with the purpose of enlightenment.” Stephen K. Bannon enthused that “our thing is to throw gasoline on the resistance.””
Trump, Jr. and the Roseanne Barr story
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I don’t know how we can have a civil discussion on issues when one side says crap like this:
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Sad! 