The “Stink” of Trump?
It will be interesting to see how today’s Trump supporters will come to be regarded by history, provided, of course, that Trumpism is eventually revealed to be anti-democratic authoritarianism and is ultimately rejected as a valid form of government in America.
Regardless of what happens, however, the worst that happens to today’s Trumpers is that they are remembered by future conservatives as having supported “a bad man with good ideas.” There will be very little shame in this, and “stink” is a terrible word to use here.
The concepts of tight borders, environmental deregulation, denying healthcare to those who can’t afford it, bans on abortion, Christianity in schools and government, two genders, the opposition to wokeism, and the superiority of the white race is bound to have enduring appeal to a significant number of people–regardless of what happens to the former president in his criminal prosecution and political career.
What Trump says here is correct; it was his capacity to add three conservatives to the U.S. Supreme Court that brought an end to a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
Republicans have impeded everything the Democrats have proposed. Isn’t that “something?” In fact, isn’t that their calling?
And precisely what is this “edifice” to which MLK was referring?
Here’s a cool pic of a defunct gas station.
Throughout the millennia, most religious texts have attempted to blend faith and reason. Thomas Aquinas, for example, set out to prove the existence of God using only the laws of logic that had been propounded by Aristotle roughly 1400 years earlier. Descartes, perhaps 300 years later, was on a similar mission.
Ms. Streisand may be the wealthiest American headed for a sane and decent place to live if Trump is re-elected, but she certainly won’t be the only one.
I’m sure the actual reason that today’s air travel is so uncomfortable is complex, but it strikes me that there was a limit to corporate greed 50 years ago that is altogether absent from our lives today.
In a world in which empathy seems to be on the run, it’s good to be reminded of what the world’s great thinkers have had to say on the subject.
