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Dec 11, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Bill Blum |Rob Maurer
If you think the 22nd Amendment would stop Trump from serving a third term, you probably haven’t read the amendment. If we have learned anything about Donald Trump over the past decade, it’s that even his most outlandish threats against democracy should be taken seriously. This applies not only to his promises to exact revenge and retribution on his political opponents and critics, but also to his expressed interest in serving a third term (or more) as president.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
alternet.org | Bill Blum
If we have learned anything about Donald Trump over the past decade, it’s that even his most outlandish threats against democracy should be taken seriously. This applies not only to his promises to exact revenge and retribution on his political opponents and critics, but also to his expressed interest in serving a third term (or more) as president. Trump has been musing about serving three terms for a long time.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Bill Blum
We might have been a free and a great people together, but a communication of grandeur & of freedom it seems is below their dignity. —Thomas …
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
smirkingchimp.com | Bill Blum
— from Truthdig If we have learned anything about Donald Trump over the past decade, it’s that even his most outlandish threats against democracy should be taken seriously. This applies not only to his promises to exact revenge and retribution on his political opponents and critics, but also to his expressed interest in serving a third term (or more) as president. Trump has been musing about serving three terms for a long time.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | Bill Blum
If we have learned anything about Donald Trump over the past decade, it’s that even his most outlandish threats against democracy should be taken seriously. This applies not only to his promises to exact revenge and retribution on his political opponents and critics, but also to his expressed interest in serving a third term (or more) as president. Trump has been musing about serving three terms for a long time.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
smirkingchimp.com | Bill Blum
— from The Progressive The post-mortems on Donald Trump’s victory and the Democrats’ defeat are coming from all directions. Most focus on Kamala Harris’s shortcomings, and many are contradictory. Did Harris lose because she was a weak candidate, despite the initial optimism surrounding her campaign? Did she move too far to the right, alienating a critical mass of potential progressive voters by palling around with neo-cons like Liz Cheney?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Bill Blum |Rob Maurer
Trump duped the working class by appealing to hate, the most primal of instincts. Can progressives respond with an attack on oligarchy? The post-mortems on Donald Trump’s victory and the Democrats’ defeat are coming from all directions. Most focus on Kamala Harris’s shortcomings, and many are contradictory. Did Harris lose because she was a weak candidate, despite the initial optimism surrounding her campaign?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
progressive.org | Bill Blum
The post-mortems on Donald Trump’s victory and the Democrats’ defeat are coming from all directions. Most focus on Kamala Harris’s shortcomings, and many are contradictory.
Did Harris lose because she was a weak candidate, despite the initial optimism surrounding her campaign? Did she move too far to the right, alienating a critical mass of potential progressive voters by palling around with neo-cons like Liz Cheney?
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
alternet.org | Bill Blum
Donald Trump owes the Founding Fathers a deep debt of gratitude for making his past and present election-subversion plots possible. In particular, he should thank them for creating the Electoral College. This article originally appeared on Truthdig. Most of the who convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation held a deep distrust of the masses. No less than .
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Bill Blum |Rob Maurer
Donald Trump owes the Founding Fathers a deep debt of gratitude for making his past and present election-subversion plots possible. In particular, he should thank them for creating the Electoral College. Most of the 55 white men of property who convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation held a deep distrust of the masses. No less than 25 of them were slave owners.
