Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate wrote a book saying founding fathers were right not to abolish slavery

Another bigot endorsed by Trump

Acting EPA chief liked a racist Facebook image

Another bigot in the Trump administration

 

Election update October 8, 2018

Books: Fear

I recently read Fear by Bob Woodward on the early part of the Trump administration.  Woodward is excellent at digging out information and presenting it clearly.  His prose is bland but that’s fine – the book is about the subject, the writing.   It’s news writing prose, not fiction.

There’s lots of scary stuff – Trump is sure he is right even when presented with facts that contradict his opinion.  For example, he was insistent that Iran was in violation of the nuclear deal when they weren’t.  It sounds like it’s impossible to get him to change long-held beliefs.

The administration comes across as very disorganized.  I worked in the federal government (at much lower levels) for decades and we never had this kind of infighting and chaos.

2018 elections update 10/06/18

 

Republicans can’t win on the issues such as health care so they run a lot of negative ads.

Trump administration moves to weaken radiation rules