TrumpWorld

May 29, 2020

I’m commonly conflicted about giving attention to Trumpism on my blogs and Webpages, because—on the one hand—I want to live as if he never held office. A reader of what I do might easily believe that I’m not attentive to living in an era of White House occupation by a blowhard puppet to plutocrats who continues to abuse power, thanks to a servile Republican establishment that turns obstructionism into institutionalized disassembly of Congressional oversight power, while the all-pitch-no-product golf club king turns Executive administration into proprietary corporate offices served by hollowed departments of normal government.

On the other hand, I’ve actually given so much polemical attention to Trumpism (which the above little rant might imply) that I don’t want to do more here about a forgettable era.

But I’ve archived all of my polemics from “comments” boxes of articles at the NYTimes, the Washington Post, and Politico over the past three and a half years, which I don’t wish to resurrect any more than others would wish to read it (especially since comments extracted from the articles that the comments respond to require re-contextualization; or else, reading the pertinent article in each case). I could weave the hundreds of comments into topical areas and make it all independent of articles that become links. But I would dread the job.

Meanwhile, comment continues. To wit:

May 23

Click “Comments” below the video window at the PBS News Hour article for this link. It’s also at my Disqus account, but the archive there isn’t tagged by date, only connected to the undated article header (“Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump’s reelection strategy”).

And another example, at the NYTimes. (Paul Krugman offers complementary, but technical, acerbity at “How Many Will Die for the Dow?”)

Surely, you’d prefer an inebriated commentary.

But sobriety is good, too.

May 24: Hitler’s heir knows better than to talk about grandaddy

Here’s a comment in response to Maureen Dowd’s delightfully acerbic column today at the Times.

May 25

Is Trump a proxy for global plutocracy?: more comment at the Times.

May 29

So, we’re on the brink of electioneering in the era of covid-19. I want to write in presumption that the Biden administration is a given. I’ve wasted enough of my life on animus toward a burned out salesman playing American isolationist xenophobe.