Unpublicized trips to meet foreign adversaries is not always an unwise or treasonous diplomatic effort. Remember Harry Hopkins in a July 1941 meeting with a scurrilous Joe Stalin in Moscow while the press was following FDR on his fishing holiday. Dr. Kissinger secretly met Mao and Chou in Beijing during our actual hostilities in the region. Records and…
Month: July 2019
What Happens if the NSA Releases the Trump-Putin Tapes?
We know that the NSA has intercepted all confidential conversations of Russia’s dictator, Putin, including those taking place with U.S. citizens, including Donald Trump. Eventually, they will see the light of day. Why else has Trump avoided crossing paths with DNI Chief Coats and NSA Chief Nakasone? Those eminent professionals avoid politics, unless the nation’s…
THE PROBLEM OF TRUMP’S BASE: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Again we are forced to return to the essence of Trump’s influence: the unswerving loyalty of his followers. Several years ago, the pamphleteer Ann Coulter, in an extended C-Span interview, admitted that her political awakening was based upon a reading of Gustav Le Bon’s theory of mass psychology. Of course, she saw Obama as the cult figure…
WHEN IS LINDSAY GRAHAM GOING TO JAIL?
Trump’s neo-Nazism is to be expected, as that is who he is. But this cracker must be in trouble with the Trump base for his re-election run. Nothing worse than a Nazi but a Nazi-sympathizer. He should know better. He doesn’t. Time for another civil war? This time, hang all the rebel traitors.