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Weekly Mind Dump: "Gleichschaltung" - or How Trump is Consolidating Power
The voluntary phase is over. Next up: the coercive phase.
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At What Point Would Republicans Remove Donald Trump from Office?
It is hard to conceive of Republicans opting to remove their cult leader from power, short of his falling into a vegetative state.
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Weekly Mind Dump: Trump's Foreign Policy
An administration led by incompetents, infused with corruption and wracked by infighting - what could go wrong?
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December 2024

Weekly Mind Dump: What Do Greenland, the Panama Canal & Canada Have in Common?
And - There's no shame in being a Cassandra. And - On Jimmy Carter.
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The Moral Collapse of the American People
Is America’s decline reversible? It’s hard to say for never before have Americans brought moral collapse upon themselves.
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American "Oligarchocracy"
A renegade priest. A rogue multi-billionaire. The tale of two creepy guys out to dominate their nation.
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Weekly Mind Dump: Trump Returns to Pandora's Box for His National Security Picks
Trump's choices to lead national security could populate a B-grade Halloween horror flick.
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Weekly Mind Dump: The Statues Come Down in Syria & Geopolitics Takes a Turn
And - the coming kakistocracy: the worst and the dumbest about to take control in Washington.
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Listen Up America: There is No “Deep State.” Get Over It
Rather than some secret anti-Trump fifth column inside the career bureaucracy, public servants function as part of the constitutional autoimmune system…
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Weekly Mind Dump: Team of Felons
Trump is planning to make America into a rogue criminal state.
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November 2024

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