Yes, Trump is a fascist who, inter alia, is trying to punish speech he doesn’t like (or by people he doesn’t like).  But for the most part, the courts are not letting him get away with that, so the clock moves back to 1 minute before midnight.

Long time reader and occasional contributor, Stephen Coquette objects (mildly yet eloquently) to my comparison of Trump with Hoover in this item: Are We Facing Another Market Crash?

“45 being compared to Herbert Hoover. I realize that it was not intended as a compliment, but he and his entire cadre make Warren Gemaliel Harding (and his entire cadre) look like a college of ethicists.

“And about Hoover — he remarked at some point that he also had said that the only thing to fear was fear itself (though not so eloquently or succinctly). So why, he wondered, did the people believe FDR and not him?”

What Hoover said in his inaugural address was close, but no Cigar: “Fortunately the New World is largely free from the inheritances of fear and distrust which have so troubled the Old World. We should keep it that way.”

For the love of God, if reading the names Trump and Putin in the same sentence makes you either angry or sick to your stomach, whatever you do, do not click on this link.

“Our long national nightmare is over,” said a ham sandwich, after the Trump administration failed to convince a grand jury to indict six members of Congress for reminding military personnel that it is a violation of international law to obey illegal orders.

“No longer need the ham sandwiches of America fear indictment by zealous prosecutors with political agendas,” added the ham sandwich.

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Just a reminder how damaging it is to pretend to go along: Time To Take The Signs Down: Resisting Trump

The Coming Trump Crackup.

To explain the present, NY Times op-ed columnist David Brooks reaches back to ancient Roman historian Tacitus. Brooks draws parallels between what the historian saw in the 1st century and what is happening in the 21st.

The Coming Trump Crackup.

To explain the present, NY Times op-ed columnist David Brooks reaches back to ancient Roman historian Tacitus. Brooks draws parallels between what the historian saw in the 1^st century and what is happening in the 21^st.

The capital could be in Solvang, California, at Pea Soup Andersen’s until the purchase is complete. I, for one, welcome our new Danish masters.

Sometimes the Martin Luther King holiday reminds me of the Tom Lehrer song National Brotherhood Week (1965), which included the lyric “Just be glad it doesn’t last all year.” I made sure all of the thousand or so 8th graders I taught knew why they had the day off–something many (most?) Americans don’t know. As indicated by excerpts from his final essay, A Testament Of Hope, he would not be giving up if he were here today. Note that he used the word tyranny. If only his ideas lasted all year.

Sarah Stewart Holland, cohost of the Pantsuit Politics Podcast:

Tyranny, defined as cruel and oppressive government. 

Reading Paine’s 250-year-old argument for revolution, I found the word I had been looking for – tyranny.

What we are experiencing is tyranny, defined as cruel and oppressive government. Cruel is a word used to describe Donald Trump for over a decade now, and his second administration’s particularly violent and hateful approach to immigration enforcement can be described in no other way. And yet, the word had not occurred to me until this week.

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