1. Major kudos Sherm, for keeping your remarks so SCRUPULOUSLY directed towards Trump and towards substance - rather than angled obliquely at fellow readers who disagree. MUCH appreciated.
2. It's pretty no-holds-barred on the substance there. Which is fine, but I'm going to step off the train tracks and avoid, for example, responding to 'Islamophobia' with a series of no-holds-barred links that hip people up to the cultural atrocities going on in Europe. :: smile :: I believe I've got one or two links, or ten, that would be plenty to deter most people from using the word 'Islamophobia' as freely as they do.
Point is, the temperature at SSI is a balmy 78 degrees, that in the country about 131, and I don't want us all taking out our political frustrations on one another.
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Excellently detailed 18-point list though, brother, any one of which would make an interesting KK. One point I'm in particular agreement with you on: the power of elections to mollify the public going down. That's why I say in the original article maybe we HAVE to put our LAST hope in any remaining power that election has.
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Trump as political nihilist: that's exactly what I thought during the campaign. That his "inner thoughts" were undoubtedly very centrist, quite possibly only opportunistic, along the lines of Ivanka and Jared's.
I've been blown away time after time after time by the conservatism of his decisions and the price he's willing to pay for them. You haven't?
If Trump is going to spend 4-8 years nominating extremely conservative judges, putting people like Jeff "good people don't smoke weed" Sessions in charge, savaging the EPA, privatizing health care, locking down the borders, and so forth, what is the practical difference between his "pretend" conservatism and Ronald Reagan's sincere brand? Serious question.