‘Twitter Trump’ used tragedy for a campaign event and Twitter rage

You knew that “Teleprompter Trump” being forced to read from a hostage statement prepared for him on Monday — a “low-energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week,” as Joe Biden so accurately described on Wednesday — would not last. “Twitter Trump” used the tragedy of a mass shootings in … Read more

No Hope for Gun Reforms Until 2020

It is unlikely that Congress will do anything about gun safety until after the 2020 elections, when the pro-gun legislators should be voted out of office. The past is prologue and within two weeks social media, cable news, and print newspapers will jump on something besides the gun massacres in El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy. … Read more