Eric Black Ink
Just a brief, humorous follow-up to my post of this morning about Gen. James Mattis, who finally decided to say a few of the many critical things about Trump that he might have said over recent years.
Eric Black Ink
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try,” wrote Gen. James Mattis. “Instead he tries to divide us.”
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I recently wrote about a little book called “A Brief History of Fascist Lies” by Federico Finchelstein, who was asked about Trump’s behavior Monday night outside the White House.
Eric Black Ink
I don’t recall ever seeing him this angry, disgusted nor calling for a rout of Republicans who, although he didn’t mention it explicitly, would likely be replaced by members of some other party.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar appeared by video from Washington to promote a federal bill to expand the use of early voting and voting by mail. However, it has zero Republican sponsors.
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Personally, I would say it’s OK for Trump to dislike a talk show host who criticizes him a lot. But he’s supposed to be a grownup about it.
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Nationally, the gap between approvers (43%) and disapprovers is 10.3 percentage points.
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Of course by the time you read a poll result, it’s out of date. And the out-of-date snapshot is also somewhat out of focus.
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The Al Franken podcast is about remembering a time when Democrats and Republicans could respect one another across areas of disagreement, and debate those disagreements using honest facts and logic.
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What Eric Trump said was ridiculous enough. But it was a fair bit less ridiculous than a Slate headline suggested.
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It used to be a big deal even to suggest that the president had said something inaccurate, and it was beyond imaginable to call his statements “lies.” Now it’s just another Thursday in Trumplandia.
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Despite all of the discussion, mostly on Fox News, I can’t locate a coherent statement explaining the crime. Or who committed it. Or when and how it happened.
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Epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant was interviewed by Al Franken on what happened in the U.S. during the early months of COVID-19.
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But it is not, in any way, even close to being honest.
Eric Black Ink
A piece published in Vox helped a bit, not in reaching any conclusions about what really happened but in understanding why it is so hard to know what is going on (or went on) in this instance.
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For most of his life, John J. Pitney Jr., a professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College, identified as a Republican. The takeover of his party by Trump seems to have shaken that attachment.
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He’s a scientist, and he’s just giving his best analysis of what the “best evidence” shows, but he works for someone who has a tendency to fire those who disagree with him.
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The review of decision-making during 34 days includes an I-never-said-the-things-I-said video of President Trump.
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Biden’s negative gap is a more manageable 44 percent approval/54 percent disapproval, 10 points “under water” compared to Trump’s 38 approval/60 percent disapproval.
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The epilogue emphasizes President Trump’s utter disregard for factual accuracy or truth and his heavy reliance on lying without ever saying that this makes him a fascist.
