Politics

By his own oblivious measure, this reality stands out: no one now knows whether Trump ever means what he says. Or ever did. No wonder 2/3’s of the country judge Trump untrustworthy and unfit, if not the greatest phony dreaming of the WH? The seeming jokester has managed to turn himself into prime object of ridicule. This is politics as phantasmagoria, along with gruesome nightmares American is kaput. If language no longer has meaning, all bets are off, doomed by Trump’s indecipherable intentions. Nothing exactly new here if you track predatory sales pitches, intensely self-serving narcissism, even what most people end up calling crazy, deranged, or unstable.

The progressive left needs to confront the fact that plutocratic philanthropists like Gates care much more about preserving the systems that continue to multiply their wealth.

This isn't about being politically correct – this is about being Presidential.

Holding up that Bible with extreme awkwardness gave away the game: was ever his scheming, stupid crassness more visible?

My betting is Trump remains president at least through 2020 – absent compelling and indisputable evidence he rigged the 2016 election.

The decision to scrap this rule is a victory for the far left of the Democratic party and for progressives. 

Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of both our economy and our democracy.

For consumers, and for children, minorities, the sick and disabled, and all victims of severe inequality, a continuation of Reagan/Clinton capitalism will lead to little improvement.

Here is why Democrats’ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, as a high-powered, but low-profile Democrat “Teflon don,” would make a superb (though hardly exclusive) target for our movement’s “ratting out” tactics.

Bharara’s office was also determining whether to launch an investigation into payments that Trump has received.