Category: impeachment

MAKING AMERICA HATE AGAIN

 

To get “Making America Hate Again” by Elliot Cohen click the “Buy on Amazon” box below.

 

It is said that those who won’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This is the book on the 2015 campaign that put Trump in office. Despite the overwhelming opinion of pundits to the contrary this book predicted Trump would win.

The 2020 election looms large not only because Nancy Pelosi opposes efforts to impeach Trump, but because even if the Democrats were to impeach Trump, the Senate with it’s Republican majority are is unlikely to act on impeachment by removing Trump from office.  It is essential to understand how Trump came to power in 2015 as we head towards the 2020 election…

Some seventy years after the defeat of fascism in Europe, the United States elected Donald Trump. As president Trump has ordered the deportation of millions of immigrants, placing immigrant children in brutal deportation camps where some have died, attacked freedom of the press, paraphrasing Adolph Hitler’ by labeling journalist enemies of the people, and stated that those who marched along side a Neo-nazi that murdered a young anti-fascist women at a  white supremacist rally were “fine young men”.

How is it possible that the nation that responded to fascism in World War Two by proclaiming “we have nothing to fear, but fear itself” could give rise to this?

This well documented text examines historic similarities between Trump and the campaigns that brought fascist to power in Europe, explores why so much of the electorate voted for Trump despite his hateful rhetoric, and is essential reading to those who would understand how to fight back.

I invite you leave a comment or question relevant to a discussion of the book below:

Republicans denounce Palin as irrelevant following anti-immigration rant

On ABC’s “This Week” several Republicans commented on Palins’ statement that the unsecured border crisis was  the last straw, and that it’s now time for impeachment.

But the Republicans interviewed all seemed dismissive of Palin and seemed determined disassociate the GOP from their former Vice Presidential candidate.

Ana Navarro, a GOP strategist pointed out that the Central American children were not sneaking across the border as Palin implied, but were instead seeking out border patrol agents and turning themselves in. A statement that exposed Palin’s claim that an “unsecured border” as the source of the current crisis was false with regard to most of the Central American children arriving in the U.S.

Navarros’ comment followed a segment on the same program by House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R. Virginia). Goodlatte, a conservative Republican, ridiculed Palin’s call for impeachment saying impeachment was not being considered because Obama had committed no criminal act that could justify impeachment.

Even Bill Kristol, whose conservative publication “The Weekly Standard,” had once run a glowing profile of Palin to bolster her reputation as a Vice Presidential candidate during the 2008 election campaign, stated that “no responsible Republican official has called for impeachment,” agreeing, in essence, that the Democrats would welcome an effort to impeach because it would be likely to enhance prospects for Democratic candidates in the 2014 congressional races.

Republican strategist Ana Navarro best summed up the mood of Republicans toward Palin saying “Nobody of responsibility, nobody in leadership, nobody of relevance has
talked about impeachment.”

With Palin now declared irrelevant by members of her own party the only question that remains is whether or not tea party types still have enough clout to force GOP to impeach. My guess is they do not.

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