Donald Trump failed basic American Civics today

The American Civics Act requires that all Arizona students pass a basic civics test before graduating from high school. It was the first bill Governor Ducey signed, making Arizona the first state in the country to enact such a law. Twitter-troll-in-chief Donald Trump failed basic American Civics today. Shouldn’t there be an American Civics test … Read more

What Time is it? It is Time for Trump (aka Individual One) to Go.

  On Monday, April 22, 2019 the Democratic Leadership led by Speaker Pelosi reaffirmed their intentions to continue Congressional Investigations building on the voluminous results of the Mueller Investigation and other potential misdeeds by this “President” and members of his administration. She would not commit to instantly commencing impeachment hearings. This due diligence on the … Read more

Serious questions about the 2020 Census case in SCOTUS today

The Trump administration’s move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census was argued in the U.S. Supreme Court this morning. First, the case background from the Washington Post, The Four Pinocchio claim at the center of the census citizenship question: [T]he justices could be weighing a Four-Pinocchio claim by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. … Read more

What if Trump Wins a Second Term?

 

I try hard to value others’ opinions, especially when they are informed. That’s tougher in the digital age, because we are increasingly entrenched in information silos which don’t always provide us unfiltered truths. Still, I’ve tried to moderate my publicly stated positions on President Trump because I’d rather inform than alienate. At this point though, I feel silence is complicity.

A great article in the Atlantic explains some of the potential dangers of a second Trump presidency. The Pulitzer Prize winning author, Paul Starr, writes that,

“the biggest difference between electing Trump in 2016 and re-electing Trump in 2020 would be irreversibility.”

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