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This is something you will want to bookmark or copy or even go back in time and hit the bookstore and buy a copy of. Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic Magazine has a wonderful compilation of 50 moments that define the Trump presidency. Any one of them would have been a big deal and many even rise to the level of a full blown scandal in other administrations but with Trump its just daily news that is forgotten when the next fiasco comes along days later.
https://www.theatlantic.com/unthinkable/
When you have all these together in front of you and one can see the collective negative impact on our nation and its institutions, you can really appreciate how Trump has corrupted and polluted our very body politic.
here is the intro
Amazing work.
https://www.theatlantic.com/unthinkable/
When you have all these together in front of you and one can see the collective negative impact on our nation and its institutions, you can really appreciate how Trump has corrupted and polluted our very body politic.
here is the intro
Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor in chief of The Atlantic
In an October 2016 editorial, The Atlantic wrote of Donald Trump: “He is a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar.” We argued that Trump “expresses admiration for authoritarian rulers, and evinces authoritarian tendencies himself.” Trump, we also noted, “is easily goaded, a poor quality for someone seeking control of America’s nuclear arsenal. He is an enemy of fact-based discourse; he is ignorant of, and indifferent to, the Constitution; he appears not to read.”
In retrospect, we may be guilty of understatement.
There was a hope, in the bewildering days following the 2016 election, that the office would temper the man—that Trump, in short, would change.
He has not changed.
This week marks the midway point of Trump’s term. Like many Americans, we sometimes find the velocity of chaos unmanageable. We find it hard to believe, for example, that we are engaged in a serious debate about whether the president of the United States is a Russian-intelligence asset. So we decided to pause for a moment and analyze 50 of the most improbable, norm-bending, and destructive incidents of this presidency to date.
Amazing work.