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I remember waking up on November 5, 1980, after casting my first vote in a presidential election to find that my candidate had been defeated in a landslide. The loss of Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan led to 12 years of destructive and often inhumane policies. My wife confessed that she had seriously thought of moving out of the country when Reagan was elected. I’m glad she didn’t for my sake. My father, from a working-class White community in Baltimore, couldn’t utter Reagan’s name without including the antecedent damn. Before he died, he had voted for Jesse Jackson for president.
In the deepest core of my being, I was unhappy with virtually everything about the election: unhappy with the Kamala Harris campaign and her unrelenting support of Israeli genocide, unhappy with the Democratic Party and its contempt for progressive voters’ values even as the party remained certain it owned their votes. But at a more superficial level. I pretty much thought Harris would win, just because Trump was way-y-y too crazy (”they’re eating the pets!”) to actually be able to reclaim the presidency.
President Trump Wins a Second Term as a Convicted Felon
Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda have threatened to upend the clean energy transition and move us backwards. He has shown us he is more interested in lining the pockets of fossil fuel oligarchs than helping everyday Americans.
There is a little joy, and a lot of good work in Black communities, but there were little or no serious opportunities for decision-making or purchasing decisions for Blacks on her campaign team. There were zero seats at “the table” for experienced and successful Black political professionals.
Unbelievably, Donald Trump not only won the presidency – capturing the popular and electoral votes necessary to do so fair and square – but he also ran the table, meaning his party controls both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court. Whatever he wants to do for the next 4 years is going to be very hard to prevent. If he dies, is removed from his position due to incompetency, or resigns, then we have President Vance – an unknown just a few months ago, but, based on what we have learned, scarcely better than Trump and maybe worse.
Elon Musk, Trump’s sidekick, is protected by his enormous wealth. When he channels fascist ideas, he pays no penalty. To wit (CNN, Oct. 21): “ Musk invoked the names of two German Nazis in a tweet . . . attempting, as he so often does, to make a joke. . . . Musk was responding to a Der Spiegel article that compared him to a media mogul who helped Hitler climb to power.” A month earlier, Musk promoted Tucker Carlson’s widely condemned interview with a Nazi apologist who said the murder of Jews in concentration camps was “humane” and that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain” of World War II. Musk later deleted his X post; but he called the interview “very interesting” and “worth watching.”
The military-industrial complex is a term coined by President Eisenhower in his farewell address in 1961. Eisenhower spoke of the influence of the arms industry and warned Americans to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence” by it.
She Fought The Lies And The Lies Won