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What About Our Refusal To Look Squarely At The Degradation Of The Planet We Inhabit? In The Last Election Cycle Many Candidates Refused Even To Acknowledge The Hard Science, Irrefutable Science, Of Climate Change. The President, While Readily Accepting The Facts, Has Done Far Too Little To Alter Them. How Long Are We, Are You, Prepared To Wait?

My Deep Sense Of Alarm Has To Do With Donald Trump's Seeming Lack Of Fealty To Constitutionalism.

I Use Social Media Every Day. I Don't Have A Twitter Account, But Not Because I'm A Dinosaur About It. I Have Enough Of A Platform Here. People In My Position Who Do It Tend To Use It In A Promotional Way Or In A Hamstrung Way. I Look At Twitter All The Time As A News Tool Or For Cultural Conversation. I've Used It In My Reporting. It's Very Useful.

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

Ronald Reagan Came To Office And Had Already Been An Experienced Politician As Governor Of California, Whose Ideology And Ideas, No Matter How Simplistic Or No Matter How Much You May Disagree With Them, Were Fairly Well-developed And Fairly Consistent. Donald Trump Is A Real-estate Branding Operator And A Reality-show Television Star Whose Entrance Into Big-time Politics, As A Victor, As Someone Who Will Now Wield Tremendous Power, Was As Shocking To Him As It Was To Everybody Else.