Democratic Institutions, Even In The Oldest Operating

There Are Systemic, Painful Problems Of Globalization And De-industrialization That Cannot Be Solved With A Phone Call Or A Tweet Or An Angry Speech Or Trying To Isolate The Press And The First Amendment. Sooner Or Later, The Donald Trump Show, Which Is A Projection Of Strength And Authority, Will Have To Deliver To His Voters. And If He Doesn't, In Very Real Terms, If He Can't Supersede A Situation Where A President Cut The Unemployment Rate In Half, If He Can't Do Better, If He Can't Open Factories And All The Rest That He's Promised, Then I Think He's In Trouble.

I Don't Know That Donald Trump Is Anything More To Putin Than What Lenin Called A Poleznye Durak, A Useful Idiot.

What I Object To Is Tricking The Reader And Blurring The Lines So That Unsuspecting Readers, Thinking That They Are Getting Something That Is Assigned And Edited By The Editorial Side, Are Getting Something Quite Different. They Are Getting An Advertisement.

The Internet Is Very Democratizing In Some Ways, But It Also Has Other Effects.

If This Day Means Anything, It Means That You Are Now In The Contingent Of The Responsible. You Must Be Kind, Yes, But You Must Also Look Beyond Your Own House. We're Depending On You For Your Efforts And Your Vision. We Are Depending On Your Eye And Your Imagination To Identify What Wrongs Exist And Persist, And On Your Hands, Your Backs, Your Efforts, To Right Them.