Comments on: Trump 2.0:  The good, the bad, the ugly and the insane by J.E. Dean https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/ Nonpartisan and Education-based News for Chestertown Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: John Dean https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759475 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:58 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759475 In reply to Verna Thompson.

Me, too.

]]> By: Deirdre LaMotte https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759441 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:06:03 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759441 In reply to Beryl Smith.

Hi Beryl, our family is going to be a part of the National Day of Protest in Annapolis on Monday, 12-2:00,
in front of the State House, Lawyer’s Row. All 50 states are participating….

Don’t know what will happen to this nation. This is the great irony of today’s GOP: It is a party that punishes courage and rewards cowardice. Those who took a stand after January 6th have been purged or silenced. Those who know better but choose to keep quiet are rewarded with another term, another committee assignment, another pat on the back from Trump’s inner circle.
This is how democracies decay-not through dramatic coups, but through the slow erosion of moral courage among those entrusted with power. The Senate GOP has abandoned its role as a check on the executive branch, choosing instead to function as an extension of Trump’s will. The House as well,
although the tight numbers are good for obstruction.
Meanwhile, I personally feel Chuck Schumer should be put out to pasture and the Ds need to have an
effective, aggressive leader. Now..
Go after the Rs argument. They are playing a shell game. None of what T and M are doing will ever help
Americans that are not the highest earners. The majority will be hit with slashes in benefits and at least a 4 trillion dollar deficit. All to give tax cuts to the richest people on this planet.

As Greg Sargent said in a recent post:

Shockingly, it turns out that empowering the richest human being on the planet to maliciously and gratuitously heap additional misery on that planet’s most poor, hungry, and desperate people might—just might—pose a niggling political problem to President Donald Trump.

As Joyce Vance says, which is lovely, “we are in this together”.

]]> By: Verna Thompson https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759435 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:27:59 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759435 I just hope that America as we know it, survives until the 2026 election.

]]> By: John Dean https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759198 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:36:00 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759198 In reply to Beryl Smith.

Thank you for reading the piece and asking the fundamental question: Where do we go from here?
I remain hopeful that courts will slow down or stop some of Trump’s destructive actions. I also hope that Congressional Republicans will start to push back on some of his proposals.

Things are pretty bleak right now. The rebuilding process cannot stop until the “deconstruction” effort of Musk/Trump is stopped.

To be clear–we all should support government being more efficient and free of corruption. I don’t think that is what the Trump effort is about.

]]> By: Beryl Smith https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759189 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:30:18 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/12/trump-2-0-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-insane-by-j-e-dean/#comment-759189 But how do we get back what we will have lost by the next elections: competent administrators of agencies or the agencies themselves, respect in the international world; ruined or compromised/subverted computer files with vast amounts of personal information?
Thank you for laying out the many incursions into what felt, up to now, like good government with the always needed corrections that derive from human intervention/error/misinterpretation. Where do we go from here?

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