Donald Trump never bought the 2017 National Security Council’s designation of both Russia and China as America’s chief security threats. Nor, as is well known, has he ever accepted the intelligence community’s findings—most recently amplified by a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report and Michael Schmidt’s book, Donald v. the United States—that Russian entities colluded with the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 to promote his election. (“The country’s greatest intelligence failure since 9/11,” Schmidt writes.)
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Hang together or hang separately
When I ponder the likelihood of looming electoral chaos — uncounted votes, a defeated president who won’t leave office, the possible termination of American democracy (coming soon!) — I can’t avoid putting it into a larger context:
Where do we go to
A segment of White America continues to sow, harvest, and propagate beliefs in their God, Guns, White Supremacy and Trump. God is referenced as their “God,” because it’s hard to imagine that a God of love, reverence, and repentance would seek glorification through a group of people, including Trump, who according to Proverb, 6:6-19, represents an Abomination.
America’s Ugly Flaw
I’m hoping you’ll agree to be a viral superspreader—in a good way, in a way that actually defends democracy and keeps America free.
He has plenty of divisions to stoke, a good number of fires he can light. There is always people of color against white people, Republicans against Democrats, men versus women, the uneducated despising the educated; he pushes red states against blue states. The older against the younger; the inner city versus the suburbs. That’s a lot of kindling that can be lit. Trump is focused on enlarging this list.
Trump’s Leadership on Systematic Racism
Unfortunately, only in America has it become necessary to create special legislation at the local and federal levels to protect Black males/females from police brutality. One would think that in a civil society, legislation, such as the Endangered Species Act, would only be needed to protect defenseless animals from habitat destruction and predatory humans. However, murders, beatings, and assaults of Blacks recorded live and broadcast throughout the world, suggest otherwise.