Sunday, April 23, 2017

A Hundred Days of Trump - The New Yorker

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A stunning rant about the Trump presidency by the editor of The New Yorker.  It ends with this peroration. - gwc
A Hundred Days of Trump - The New Yorker
by David Remnick

***The clownish veneer of Trumpism conceals its true danger. Trump’s way of lying is not a joke; it is a strategy, a way of clouding our capacity to think, to live in a realm of truth. It is said that each epoch dreams the one to follow. The task now is not merely to recognize this Presidency for the emergency it is, and to resist its assault on the principles of reality and the values of liberal democracy, but to devise a future, to debate, to hear one another, to organize, to preserve and revive precious things. 

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