Trump's ballroom is more than just a story of corruption. White House historian Edward Lengel told me and @shirinsadeghi.bsky.social that it's a reflection of the man's "hatred for American democracy." www.theredoubt.net/trumps-ballr...
Trump's ballroom is more than just a story of corruption. White House historian Edward Lengel told me and @shirinsadeghi.bsky.social that it's a reflection of the man's "hatred for American democracy." www.theredoubt.net/trumps-ballr...
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Edward Lengel, a White House historian, says Donald Trump is showing "contempt for the founding fathers."
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Edward Lengel, a White House historian, says Donald Trump is showing "contempt for the founding fathers."
My generous read on it is that center-left politicians fear any forceful response will "escalate the situation," and their job as leaders it to _deescalate_ and calm things down.
Of course, the far right does not interpret this as liberals doing "good governance," but as liberals being pushovers.
"I think he decided he's going to blow the place up, he's going to blow the country up. I think what he's doing is, in a lot of ways, a highly emotive reaction and a desire just to bulldoze everything.?
Charles Я. Davis
Charles Я. Davis
Charles Я. Davis
Edward Lengel, a White House historian, says Donald Trump is showing "contempt for the founding fathers" — and "hatred for American democracy." www.theredoubt.net/trumps-ballr...
🗽LOLGOP🗽
Brain Status: Just read "truthout" as "Trut Hout."
The Redoubt
In 1920s Austria, the center-left also proved incapable of standing up for itself in the face of ascendant fascism, demonstrating what one writer has described as social democracy's "serial failure of nerve."
(from "Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World" by Richard Cockett)
