Posts Tagged ‘45’
The End Of (our) Empire
Check out this article over on The Atlantic‘s website, The End of the American Century by George Packer. In it, Packer looks at the decline and fall of the American empire. He uses as his vehicle the life and career of the late Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the end of the Bosnian war. For him,…
Read MoreMeme: Just in case you were wondering…
…who gained most from Trump’s tax cuts, it wasn’t the middle class. It wasn’t the poor. It wasn’t Trump’s supporters. It was, guess who? The rich.
Read MoreMeme: Relative Intelligence
Meme: An Honorable Man
There are some honorable Republicans left, but they’re all turning into Democrats or independents.
Read MoreMeme: Do The Numbers…
Meme: We Got Lots Of Reasons
Meme: White Privilege On The Hoof
I’m Not Ready to Make Nice
By Michael E. Berumen For nearly two years prior to the 2016 election, liberal commentators and analysts described Donald Trump’s supporters as disaffected white working-class voters or by similar appellations. These disaffected voters, they would observe, felt as though they had been left behind, that they were effectively disenfranchised and marginalized in society. They would…
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