Democracy was nice while we had it
PERSIST, THE POET SAYS: “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (Shari Golob photo)
This year’s elections could be the end of democracy in America. …
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Posts Tagged with: Democracy in America
WILL THERE BE PUNISHMENT FOR A LYING EX-PRESIDENT?
NEAR THE END. Trump at Gastonia, NC, Oct. 21, 2020. (Gaston Gazette photo)
Herblock, the late Washington Post political cartoonist and nemesis of Richard Nixon, wrote in a 1974 book, …
Read More →Nixon’s legacy: After him, Republicans en masse quit on democracy
Fifty years after the break-in some Watergate ideas emerge.
Among the main ones, in my view, are that the failure to prosecute Nixon and the Ford pardon of him did great damage to democracy …
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