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napi21

(45,806 posts)
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 01:55 AM Apr 2017

Great editorial about the Con in the LA Times. "Our Dishonest President"

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-our-dishonest-president/

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t was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.
Instead, seventy-some days in — and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed — it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced.
In a matter of weeks, President Trump has taken dozens of real-life steps that, if they are not reversed, will rip families apart, foul rivers and pollute the air, intensify the calamitous effects of climate change and profoundly weaken the system of American public education for all.


Take the time to read the article. Their description of the damager he could do is unimaginable!
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Great editorial about the Con in the LA Times. "Our Dishonest President" (Original Post) napi21 Apr 2017 OP
Excellent editorial series by LA Times... Pachamama Apr 2017 #1
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