CAT Tracks for April 3, 2017 OUR DISHONEST PRESIDENT

An introduction from The New York Times:

Monday, April 3, 2017
NYTimes.com/Opinion




The Los Angeles Times yesterday began a four-part editorial series, titled “The Problem with Trump.” Its goal is to lay out how extraordinary and dangerous Donald Trump’s presidency is. The facts aren’t new, but the series does an excellent job of capturing the Trump crisis.

The L.A. Times focuses on three issues:

1) “Trump’s shocking lack of respect for those fundamental rules and institutions on which our government is based.”

2) “His utter lack of regard for truth” (a subject this newsletter has addressed before).

3) “His scary willingness to repeat alt-right conspiracy theories, racist memes and crackpot, out-of-the-mainstream ideas.”

The first editorial was blunt: “nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.

“Instead, seventy-some days in — and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed — it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced.”

What can be done? I encourage you to read The Times’s editorial (as well as today’s follow-up) and to think about what role you personally can play.

Remember: citizen activism has already played a crucial role in Trump’s attempt to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.

Many more such struggles are ahead, and Democrats, Republicans and independents all have a crucial role to play.