While on Trump’s Asia trip, there was sparse reporting on his comments regarding his trusting Putin while calling our intelligence heads “political hacks”. He idolizes Putin, Erdogan and Duterte. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now being pressured to set up a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton for some farcical charges leveled by propaganda media. All this amidst a steady dismantling of our important agencies and governmental departments. These events are truly alarming! Brian Klaas, in his newly available book, Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s attack on Democracy, points out how Trump’s apprenticeship is “an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threatens to erode American democracy, attacking the press, threatening the rule of law by firing those who investigate his alleged wrongdoing, or using nepotism to staff the White House — that Trump is borrowing tactics from the world’s dictators and despots”. Our Founding Fathers “foresaw mechanisms to counteract the probable emergence of such a demagogue”. It is time.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Nov 18 2017
What news events, issues or trend is not getting enough play in media? Explain.
While on Trump’s Asia trip, there was sparse reporting on his comments regarding his trusting Putin while calling our intelligence heads “political hacks”. He idolizes Putin, Erdogan and Duterte. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now being pressured to set up a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton for some farcical charges leveled by propaganda media. All this amidst a steady dismantling of our important agencies and governmental departments. These events are truly alarming! Brian Klaas, in his newly available book, Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s attack on Democracy, points out how Trump’s apprenticeship is “an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threatens to erode American democracy, attacking the press, threatening the rule of law by firing those who investigate his alleged wrongdoing, or using nepotism to staff the White House — that Trump is borrowing tactics from the world’s dictators and despots”. Our Founding Fathers “foresaw mechanisms to counteract the probable emergence of such a demagogue”. It is time.
Trish Forsyth Voss
By spiritspeak • Community Roundtable 0