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Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
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When CA asks for federal help from Trump, it gets stiffed.
In this case, no help was asked. CA's 75,000 uniformed law enforcement personnel were equal to the scale of disruption.
Trump was testing powers for later, not responding to a threat now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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If Fox does produce the PDB, some leggy blond recent graduate of a Baptist college is about to become the most valuable intelligence asset on earth.
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and here's the show about Trump as one of the most corrupt crooks to lead any nation at any time in history - and about his vice president, who fell from bright heights to moral depravity in a trajectory out of Paradise Lost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XAN...
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Anyway, here's the piece in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I once owned a dog who avidly chased squirrels, but looked away when he met a deer. My wife explained: "Some things are too big to see." I recall that saying when journalists get excited over "Biden was addled" and ignore "Trump is a Putin- or Mobutu-scale crook."
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Today's @theatlantic.com piece linked above is supplement to monologue on the David Frum Show today. Trump's analogues are not Nixon, Harding, or Grant. They are Putin, Mobutu Sese Soko, and the Duvaliers in Haiti. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XAN...
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More via Wandile Sihlobo
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Executive powers are used to harass, punish, and self-enrich. In important domains of life, there is no consistent rule of law in Trump's USA, only arbitrary and often corrupt personal will.
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The Trump United Stares offers a business environment where costs of virtually every production input are radically unpredictable because the country's president can and does alter them according to his daily whims.
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The whole "Calls From a Killer" series can be heard here podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/u...