I don’t give them my money, but I am happy to have them attack Trump.
Reagan pioneered the “government is the problem” approach. It was wildly successful.
Reagan was a remarkable political figure who emerged out of the Goldwater movement in the 60s to front what was largely a growing sentiment that progress was going a bit too far for those who viewed rights as entangled with power in a zero sum game. His famous comment about the scariest words in the English language weren't his invention so much as they became his for his delivery.
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad the folks at the Lincoln Project put MAGA in their sights. But they also like to argue for certain actions or argue Democrats need to engage in ways that remind me - they didn't care about people or principles then, they cared about power and influence. And any claim they make should keep that front and center. I get out of their way when they are running to the front to take a bullet from the gun they put in the hands of a mob. I don't run after them when they shout out commands.
I've been contemplating why it is we always want a single person to be the king we follow? The Presidency has been an administrative effort for as long as I've been alive, and ever since the Bush 2 presidency I find it hard to believe any person elected matters more than the folks they surround themselves with instead.
Pete Buttigieg was on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday effectively defending the Biden administration in a way that I wish would be said more openly and acknowledged. The president matters...but only in so far as their administration and their vision can be effective.
I've been contemplating why it is we always want a single person to be the king we follow? The Presidency has been an administrative effort for as long as I've been alive, and ever since the Bush 2 presidency I find it hard to believe any person elected matters more than the folks they surround themselves with instead.
Species characteristics? The Constitution? A combination thereof? Executive authority seems to have been designed specifically to harness and yet bound the powers of kingship. It seems natural that psychological reversion to monarchy would be an ever-present phenomenon in the system.
I have met more than a few intelligent and reasonably sane people who have told me they prefer monarchy. I don’t get it, but there you go. It seems to be a thing.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
I have met more than a few intelligent and reasonably sane people who have told me they prefer monarchy. I don’t get it, but there you go. It seems to be a thing.
Say what you will about Trump's preference to be a despotic ruler. At least he made the trains run on time!
Say what you will about Trump's preference to be a despotic ruler. At least he made the trains run on time!
At least he had a red button to summon Diet Coke on his desk. That is probably the only efficient thing the guy did, and that tells you everything you need to know about his leadership model.
“Baby want cokie now!!!!”
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
I have met more than a few intelligent and reasonably sane people who have told me they prefer monarchy. I don’t get it, but there you go. It seems to be a thing.
Say what you will about Trump's preference to be a despotic ruler. At least he made the trains run on time!
Did he really? I don't think so! Have you ever traveled via Amtrak! Last week our daughter went by train to Salt Lake City to visit her older sister. The train leaving Sacramento left Sacramento pretty much on time, but it got to Salt Lake 7 1/2 hours late. The time before that, she caught the train in Roseville California. It arrived and left Roseville hours late and was nearly a day late arriving in Salt Lake! It was way late coming back again to Roseville that time. She will be coming back from her current trip next Saturday. I have little doubt it will be late again!
Of course, Trump isn't President now, but I doubt that Amtrack was much more punctual when he was.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
Let's hope his deterioration becomes obvious enough so that even his sycophants can no longer escape the fact that he is not fit to be President and, perhaps, even come to the realization that he never really was.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
Say what you will about Trump's preference to be a despotic ruler. At least he made the trains run on time!
Did he really? I don't think so! Have you ever traveled via Amtrak! Last week our daughter went by train to Salt Lake City to visit her older sister. The train leaving Sacramento left Sacramento pretty much on time, but it got to Salt Lake 7 1/2 hours late. The time before that, she caught the train in Roseville California. It arrived and left Roseville hours late and was nearly a day late arriving in Salt Lake! It was way late coming back again to Roseville that time. She will be coming back from her current trip next Saturday. I have little doubt it will be late again!
Of course, Trump isn't President now, but I doubt that Amtrack was much more punctual when he was.
Yikes, that means Trump was less competent than his compatriot Benito Mussolini.
