For the last time as president, Donald Trump arrived on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport an hour before Joe Biden's inauguration. He greeted supporters along the route between the airport and Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
Standing against the Left but praying for its leaders
Monday, January 18, 2021 |
Dr. Michael Brown - Guest Columnist
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For my part, I plan to do everything I can to oppose the destructive agenda of the left, standing up, speaking out, pushing back, and voting accordingly. The words “compromise” or “capitulate” are not in my vocabulary.
It’s one thing to take strong exception to many of the goals of the Democratic platform or to have grave concerns about where the left wants to take America. It’s another thing to view every Democrat as Satan incarnate and to justify despising and loathing them. Yet that is what many of us have done in the heat of the current political crisis. In our eyes, our ideological opponents are more demons than humans.
Auditing U.S. Democracy
The presidency of Donald Trump catapulted the topic of democracy to the forefront of political thought and discussion. This is for good reason: Throughout the past four years, we witnessed the creation of an immigration policy that is tantamount to ethnic cleansing; a president who used twitter and campaign rallies to stoke white nationalist hostility; the emergence of an authoritarian love triangle between the president, cops, and far-right vigilantes; displays of symbolic and literal violence against the press; and most recently a president who, with the support of GOP elites and much of the party’s electorate, doubled down on claims of election fraud rather than concede, paving the way for a Biden presidency to be treated as illegitimate by an entire political party. The topic of American democracy deserves our attention today. However, the Trump years do not mark some abandonment of previously rich democratic politics. To the contrary, American democrac
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Bridget Anne Kelly,
the former Christie administration deputy chief of staff who wrote the “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email, is considering a run as a Republican for Bergen County Clerk,