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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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trump
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Reasonable doubt trumps everything.
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legal
logic
rationality
reason
reasonable-doubt
trump
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Rebecca McNutt |
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"Cohn and Porter worked together to derail what they believed were Trump's most impulsive and dangerous orders. That document and others like it just disappeared. When Trump had a draft on his desk to proofread, Cohn at times would just yank it, and the president would forget about it. But if it was on his desk, he'd sign it. "It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said privately. "It's what we saved him from doing."
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trump
white-house
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Bob Woodward |
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The Italian neofascists were learning from the U.S. reactionaries how to achieve fascism's class goals within the confines of quasi-democratic forms: use an upbeat, Reaganesque optimism; replace the jackbooted militarists with media-hyped crowd pleasers; convince people that government is the enemy - especially its social service sector - while strengthening the repressive capacities of the state; instigate racist hostility and antagonisms between the resident population and immigrants; preach the mythical virtues of the free market; and pursue tax and spending measures that redistribute income upward.
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trump
warning
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Michael Parenti |
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The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants them to be different from what they were yesterday, no matter what else he's serving, he's always serving meaninglessness.
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trump
words
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Rebecca Solnit |
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Borders crumble; they won't hold together on their own; we have to shore them up constantly. They are fortified and patrolled by armed guards, these fences that divide a party of elegant diners on one side from the children on the other whose thin legs curve like wishbones, whose large eyes peer through the barbed wire at so much food--there is no wall high enough to make good in such a neighborhood. For this, of course, is what the fences divide.
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trump
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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They will not be identical unless by chance: human prediction about other humans is not good enough. Why that is sometimes hard for readers inexperienced in government to see, I cannot tell (xvi).
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government
president
presidential-power
trump
trump-resistance-movement
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Richard E. Neustadt |
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The United States was no longer the overwhelming military power in the world, no longer sure of never losing wars. no longer confident of having learned how to maintain employment and to check inflation, no longer reveling in resource independence, technological supremacy, favorable exchange rates, and the privileged life abroad. (xiii)
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government
president
presidential-power
trump
trump-resistance-movement
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Richard E. Neustadt |
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71d8bc0
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Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships.
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politics
trump
white-house
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Michael Wolff |
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The New York real estate deals were dirty, the Atlantic City ventures were dirty, the Trump airline was dirty, Mar-a-Lago, the golf courses, and the hotels all dirty. No reasonable candidate could have survived a recounting of even one of these deals. But somehow a genial amount of corruption had been figured into the Trump candidacy- that, after all, was the platform he was running on. I'll do for you what a tough businessman does for himself.
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trump
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Michael Wolff |
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Weakness is still what I see: weakness in the sense of a great gap between what is expected of a man (or someday woman) and assured capacity to carry through. Expectations arise and clerkly tasks increase, while prospects for sustained support from any quarter worsen as foreign alliances loosen and political parties wane.
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government
president
presidential-power
trump
trump-resistance-movement
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Richard E. Neustadt |
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...Trump could bring Trumpism down...
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trump
trumpism
white-house
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Michael Wolff |
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For reasons I find hard to fathom, readers with government [Harvard?] experience follow my argument more easily that do some of those for whom it remains theoretical. (xv)
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government
presidential-power
presidents
trump
trump-resistance-movement
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Richard E. Neustadt |