70 days in and it’s already been pretty rough for residents of Trumpland.
- The “Obamacare” repeal? Couldn’t get a vote.
- The Muslim ban 1.0 and then 2.0? Laughed out of court.
- The budget? “Dead on arrival,” at least, according to Senator Lindsey Graham.
- “You’re fired” seems to have taken over as the mode of operation, thus far: every US Ambassador effective upon his inauguration (without a single identified replacement to date), every high-level State Department employee,
46 District Attorneys General, Acting US Attorney General, National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh - The president thinks it’s a great idea to threaten and mount primary challenges against ultra conservative Republican Freedom Caucus members who defy his will. (He might want to look back in history. That tactic didn’t work so well, even for a very popular FDR.)
- This is supposed to be the presidential “honeymoon” period. Uh — not with ratings in the mid-thirties and dropping like a rock!
- House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, who was also a member of the trump transition team, flunked the “smell test” and appears to have completely derailed the House’s efforts to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the trump campaign colluded in any way with the Russians.
- Then there’s our Internet Privacy? ISPs are now free to sell your browsing history to the highest bidder without our permission.
- Via executive fiat, climate change is now collectively being ignored across the board in every governmental department and LGBT statistics have been wiped from the 2020 census.
- And what’s next? Passage of an actual budget and the need to once again raise the debt ceiling to pay for government spending Congress has already authorized. Is yet another government shutdown on the near horizon? Will that force Democrats to vote for passage of a horrific budget just to keep the United States afloat?
The corruption of this administration is both brazen and incompetent. Case in point: Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is about to sell his debt-laden Manhattan office tower to a bank owned by the Chinese government —> for several billion dollars above fair market value.
And if that’s not bad enough, it appears there might be evidence of Trump’s campaign coordination with Russian intelligence, strong enough that Mike Flynn won’t testify before Congress without immunity. Isn’t that the same Flynn who raled about if one needs immunity, that’s an indication of being guilty? The same guy who went on an on about that throughout the campaign?
Surprisingly, the Republican congressional delegation continues to insist that the emperor is fully clothed and has all his real hair. They are going to go down with this ship. Once again, the Republican party is destroying itself.
Now the question is: Are progressives ready with a positive vision of a just society and the policies? Are you ready to step up and run against the void? Are you ready to step up to the plate and throw your hat in the ring? Let us know, we’re listening and ready to step up and support your campaign run. Need training? Need folks willing to contribute or provide shoe leather for door-to-door canvassing? We can help with that! We just need to know who you are and how we can help.
Looking forward to hearing from you!