Donald Trump and the Republicans are unleashing a tsunami of extremist executive orders and policy changes. But the Democrats who one would normally expect to lead the resistance are not reacting, explaining that they are in “wait and see mode” because they are still despondent about the election results.
Donald Trump offered a bullying buyout offer to 2.3 million federal workers that strongly implied that they might lose their jobs unless they take it. On the other hand, he also announced that he is expanding the Guantánamo concentration camp to house 30,000 migrants.
Donald Trump has a habit of blaming everything that goes wrong on “woke” liberal Democratic and diversity equity inclusion policies. This became especially laughable after he blamed DEI for the collision of a military helicopter and a passenger jet, killing 67 people in Washington.
Perhaps, some day, politicians won’t waste the time they ought to be spending working to fix a problem on blaming one another for who was responsible. But that day is not today.
In a major blow to free expression in academia, Harvard university has redefined antisemitism to include any criticism of Israel and will expel violators who are students and fire professors.
Amid a flurry of executive orders signed by Donald Trump during his first few days in office was one authorizing immigration police and agents to enter places that previously had been off-limits to violent immigration raids, including schools and churches. Now there are no more safe spaces.
Donald Trump is threatening to invade Greenland, which is part of Denmark. But Denmark is a member of NATO. If we attack Denmark, we are obligated to come to their defense as well.
For the first time in the era of presidential term limits, we now have a president who is both a lame duck but also incredibly free to do whatever he wants to leave behind an impressive legacy by which he can be remembered. Will he avail himself of that opportunity?
Echoing Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell speech in 1961, outgoing President Joe Biden issued a goodbye address that called for Americans to be concerned about a tech industrial complex and the threat of rising oligarchy to democracy. Biden himself, of course, is Exhibit A in the corrupting influences of big money.
Never have Americans been more surveyed or tracked, a situation highlighted by airport security. We present IDs, allow our retinas to be scanned and submit to X-rays. Meanwhile, random migrants are falling out of airplane wheel wells and scrambling across our international borders. To be free, you need to be outside the system.
