Trump
Alt-Right, Crime, Horde, Insurrection, Trump, Trumpism, Video, Violence
A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege
by JOHN ADAMS •
Congress, Crime, Documentary, Right-wing Populism, Trump, Trumpism, Violence
Inside the U.S. Capitol at the Height of the Siege
by JOHN ADAMS •
At 2:12 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Trump began climbing through a window they had smashed on the northwest side of the U.S. Capitol. “Go! Go! Go!” someone shouted as the rioters, some in military gear, streamed in. It was the start of the most serious attack on the Capitol since the War…
Authoritarianism, Mendacity, Trump, Trumpism
Trump’s Big Lie
by JOHN ADAMS •
Babbittry, Boosterism, Conflicts of Interest, Culture, Disinformation, Local Government, Mendacity, Negligence, Politics, Public Relations, Reasoning, School District, Self-Dealing, That Which Paved the Way, Trump, Trumpism, University
Consequences, Accountability, Repentance, Redemption
by JOHN ADAMS •
David Frum, writing of Trump & Trumpism in The Conservative Cult of Victimhood, observes that There is no redemption without repentance. There is no repentance without accountability. There is no accountability without consequences. He rightly concludes that for the Trumpists, the absence of a moral order of accountability and repentance has meant that Even as Trump commits…
Alt-Right, America, Authoritarianism, Congress, Herrenvolk, History, Law, Mendacity, Trump, Trumpism
Confederates, Copperheads, and Conservatives
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s an understatement to say that a democratic society that endures a violent mob seizing its capitol building is a society in distress. We find ourselves in the twenty-first century facing movements as malevolent and mendacious as the nineteenth century’s Confederates and Copperheads. Karen L. Cox writes What Trump Shares With the ‘Lost Cause’ of the…
America, Economy, Employment, Failure, Trump
Trump’s Employment Failure
by JOHN ADAMS •
Catherine Rampell writes December’s jobs report confirms Trump is set to be the worst jobs president on record: When the pandemic first hit the United States, we lost 22 million jobs almost immediately. Then after seven months of gains — albeit decelerating ones — the economy tipped back into job losses in December, the Bureau…
City, Elections, Failure, Local Government, Presidential race 2020, Scott Fitzgerald, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trump, Trumpism, Unfit
Johnson & Fitzgerald: Betrayers of Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS •
The Journal Sentinel’s editorial board correctly contends that Ron Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany should resign or be expelled for siding with Trump against our republic: It was one of Scott Fitzgerald’s first votes in Congress — and he voted to give aid and comfort to an insurrection. This is what putting Donald Trump…
Kakistocracy, Trump, Trumpism
‘Only with the Best and Most Serious People’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embed from Getty Images 2015, Trump: “I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people.” 2021: Man who posed at Pelosi desk said in Facebook post that he is prepared for violent death, QAnon supporter from Arizona dressed in fur and horns joins storming of US Capitol, and Apologists For Trump’s Mob…
Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Fellow Traveler, Presidential race 2020, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trump, Trumpism, Wisconsin
Whether Ambitious, Compromised, or Crackpot, Sen. Ron Johnson Doesn’t Disappoint
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embedded below, Sen. Ron Johnson’s nine minutes, thirty-three seconds of lunacy on Sunday’s Meet the Press. A full transcript is available at NBC News. Previously: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson: Ambitious, Compromised, or Crackpot?, National Reporting on Sen. Ron Johnson, and Ron Johnson’s 12.16.20 Senate Hearing on Election Security.
America, Elections, History, Law, Liberty, Never Trump, Presidential race 2020, Resistance, Trump, Victory
2020: ‘But Not Just That’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Tim Miller – who is always worth reading, writes of 2020 as The Worst. But Not Just That. These paragraphs resonate: Most importantly, 2020 will always be the year that we joined together and toppled the greatest threat that our fragile union has faced in many decades. Turning out more people to vote against the president-strongman…
Coronavirus, Negligence, Public Health, Trump
Trump Admin Fumbles Vaccine Rollout
by JOHN ADAMS •
Aside
Having descended nationally into a dead-end assemblage of ‘pardoned felon, adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a White House trade adviser and a Russian agent’s former lover,’ versions of the same yet scheme for local office. As there is nationally, there is also a need to oppose Trumpism down to the local level as it moves – walking, crawling, or slithering – to the detriment of small and beautiful cities.