Donald Trump's Accomplishments

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With the election drawing closer it is important we consider where we are as a nation under Trump


'Lest We Forget The Horrors: A Catalog Of Trump’S Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, And Crimes'

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-889

This was the start:


'Donald Trump: 24 things the next president believes'

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34903577


'They voted for him and now regret it. Why White women are turning away from Trump.'

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-women-trump-biden/2020/09/12/6764b89a-f167-11ea-999c-67ff7bf6a9d2_story.html



"Trump’s presidency is failing rapidly. Like others before him, modern American presidents fail when they cannot master or comprehend the government that they inherit."

www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/03/16/trumps-failed-presidency/



'5 Ways the Trump Administration’s Policy Failures Compounded the Coronavirus-Induced Economic Crisis'

www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2020/06/03/485806/5-ways-trump-administrations-policy-failures-compounded-coronavirus-induced-economic-crisis/

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Thought this funny.

brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/09/28/this-bushwick-mural-will-display-over-20000-donald-trump-lies/

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This is sorta unreal. In the category, you gotta be kidding.

"Donald Trump paid nearly $200,000 in taxes to China"

'New York Times says records reveal company bank account in China, and documents show he paid more tax there than at home.'

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/21/donald-trump-china-bank-account-nearly-200000-taxes-report

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For the reader:

'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century' by Timothy Snyder

www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny


"The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.' A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better."

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As Trump lingers in the background it is important we all see him and his failure as president clearly.

'The Great Failure of Donald Trump’s Big Tax Cut'

cepr.net/the-great-failure-of-donald-trumps-big-tax-cut/

A conservative on Trump.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/30/reject-trump-vote-biden-preserve-american-moral-core-column/6069337002/

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For the reader who wants to understand bit of America today: an excellent read well done

"No one saw it coming,” but what they mean is that they consider the people who saw it coming to be no one. The category of “no one” includes the people smeared by Trump in his propaganda: immigrants, black Americans, Muslim Americans, Native Americans, Latino Americans, LGBT Americans, disabled Americans, and others long maligned and marginalized—groups for whom legally sanctioned American autocracy was not an unfathomable horror, but a personal backstory." Sarah Kendzior

'Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America'

www.goodreads.com/book/show/52274929-hiding-in-plain-sight

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This video covers language use today in communist nations and oddly in parts of america too.

'Masha Gessen and Sarah Kendzior: In Defense of Truth'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oDQX38cgk0

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While off topic in a sense, Donald Trump did not have the dignity or personal grace to honor someone differnt from him. Sad man.


'The Obamas return to the White House for the unveiling of their portraits'

www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121281696/obama-portrait-white-house

"It marked the first time in 10 years that a sitting president has invited former leadership back for a revealing of the portraits — a tradition that stalled when an unveiling did not take place during the Trump years."

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Trump keeps giving and giving...

www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/politics/what-is-in-jan-6-committee-report-summary/index.html

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Repost Chapter 8, entire book is online for the interested reader.


www.dropbox.com/s/497mckyoef7angt/Chapter%2010%20sgl.pdf


"First, democracy is more than holding elections; it requires the development of civil society, meaning such complex and counterintuitive institutions as the rule of law, an independent judiciary, multiple political parties, minority rights, voluntary associations, freedom of expression, movement, and assembly. Democracy is a learned habit, not an instinctive one, that requires deep attitudinal changes such as a culture of restraint, a commonality of values, a respect for differences of view, the concept of loyal opposition, and a sense of civic responsibility." Daniel Pipes