Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest
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Part 1: Against Trump, Republicans Are All Talk and No Action
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, February 17, 2017. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
As long as Republicans fail to show the moral or political courage to hold Trump accountable, the whole party is complicit.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
Evergreene Digest Editor's Note: Like most folks on the Left, including the deplorable Democrats, Ms. vanden Heuvel is in denial about the role they have played in enabling the Trump armageddon. Read: Robert Redford on Trump: 'He's Our Fault'. Chris Hedges has also presented much the same argument in We Are All Deplorables.
August 29, 2017 | The relationship between President Trump and Republicans in Congress is rapidly deteriorating. At least, that is the clear impression one gets from a spate of recent headlines, such as “Trump distances himself from GOP lawmakers to avoid blame if agenda stalls,” “Deepening GOP split, Trump attacks Republican senators” and “Trump sticks it to GOP.” The problem, as those headlines indicate, is that the feud is largely one-sided.
Almost every day, Trump demonstrates that he is utterly unfit for office. In the past few days alone, as a catastrophic hurricane devastated the fourth-largest city in the country, Trump pardoned former Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff Joe Arpaio—who defied a court order to stop illegally profiling Latinos and committed grotesque abuses of power for years—and tweeted nonsense about Mexico’s paying for “the wall” on the southern border. And yet, despite the president’s intensifying attacks on members of his own party, Republican leaders still have not shown the spine necessary to confront him in any meaningful way. Even the relatively few conservative lawmakers who have spoken out forcefully against Trump, particularly in response to his abominable reaction to the white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, have failed to back up their words with concrete actions.
Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation.
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Part 2: Trump’s ‘Dangerous Disability’? It’s the Dunning-Kruger Effect
We’re all ignorant, but Trump takes it to a different level.
Faye Flam, Bloomberg
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Jim Fuller.
May 12, 2017 | Last week, behavioral researchers at Brown University held a colloquium titled “Analytic thinking, bullshit receptivity, and fake news sensitivity.” At an informal gathering afterwards, the conversation turned to the not-completely-unrelated topic of Donald Trump.
Earlier that week, syndicated columnist George Will offered an amateur diagnosis of sorts. Will’s assessment, based on Trump’s off-base statements about the Civil War and other topics, was that the president suffers from a “dangerous disability” -- not only because he’s ignorant, and ignorant of his ignorance, but because he “does not know what it is to know something.”
Faye Flam is a Bloomberg View columnist. She was a staff writer for Science magazine and a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and she is the author of “The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man.”
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