100 Days of Horror
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/100-days-of-horror.html?rref=collection/column/Charles%20M.%20Blow&_r=0
100 Days of Horror
Charles M. Blow APRIL 17, 2017
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President Trump in the Oval Office last month. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times
With Donald Trumps 100th day in office fast approaching, White House staffers are reportedly trying desperately to rebrand the colossal failure of the first 100 days as some kind of success.
Trumps legislative agenda has been stymied. The drip, drip, drip of negative news about connections between campaign associates and Russia and Russias efforts to impact our election continues unabated. He seems to have no real strategy for governance other than pouting and gloating. His advisers are at each others throats. And the public has soured on him to a historic degree.
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...................Furthermore, The Washington Post reported last week that Sessions had appointed Steven H. Cook to be one of his top lieutenants, noting: Law enforcement officials say that Sessions and Cook are preparing a plan to prosecute more drug and gun cases and pursue mandatory minimum sentences. The two men are eager to bring back the national crime strategy of the 1980s and 90s from the peak of the drug war, an approach that had fallen out of favor in recent years as minority communities grappled with the effects of mass incarceration.
The clock is being turned back. Vulnerable populations are under relentless attack by this administration. This is a war, and that is not hyperbole or exaggeration. While folks are hoping that some Russia-related revelation will emerge from the darkness to bring this administration to a calamitous conclusion, the administration is busy rebuilding and reinforcing the architecture of oppression in plain sight.