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By JON HUER

Liberals and Democrats are agitated out of their minds over Trump’s many transgressions. Virtually everything Trump does — so radically different from every presidential behavior we have ever known — aggravates them. They cry out: “Why isn’t he more like the other presidents?”

By JON HUER

Nowadays, you ought to feel like Rip Van Winkle: If you had gone to sleep on Trump’s Inauguration Day and woke up today, you wouldn’t recognize your own America you see. What used to be a slow, boring continental drift in political affairs is now an avalanche every day.

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News media reports are that Trump “bragged” about helping his billionaire donors take advantage (to the tune of $300 billion) in a suspected insider trading with his on-again, off-again tariff decisions. And America’s working poor have never seen such blatant and brazen in-your-face money grabbing by the rich oligarchs.

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Let’s imagine that you are about to eat a cookie that has been touched and handled by over a thousand (yes, a thousand) different hands. Or, you just found out that the hotel where you stayed last night used the same sheets for over 100 guests.

By JON HUER

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry, a political hothead from Virginia, declared: “Give me liberty or give me death!” and history gave America its liberty and death. One could not be given without the other.

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As half of America is not sure if Trumpsters are here to wreck the nation or govern it, I urge all of us to try a new perspective on Donald Trump. In this new perspective, Trump is a revolutionary, as different from all of his predecessors as George Washington was from King George.

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I am noticing something strange about Donald Trump: He may still be selling watches and shoes to his gullible followers for a few dollars here and there. But I believe his attention is now on something far grander, beyond petty cash and Trump Towers: He now wants to build pyramids for his eternal fame.

By JON HUER

Most liberals know Donald Trump is a selfish person, close to being a narcissist. But, in their anti-Trump zeal, they forget that he is also an amoralist, the twin brother of selfishness. It’s easier to see his selfishness, such as his extreme craving for popular adulation. But his amorality is much more dangerous in a president, though less well known. We know how to deal with selfishness, but not as easily with amorality.

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As I watch the Senate hearings on Donald Trump’s nominees, I am baffled: America just elected a great sinner for our new president, but the liberal senators expect his ministers to be saints. They are denying the new leader his kind of government, expecting a government run by the 12 disciples. America cannot love Trump without loving his minions. The nation just bathed in a cesspool and expects to smell like Irish roses.

By JON HUER

The Washington Post recently reported an incident concerning America’s most famous but most famously forbidden word (Dec. 10): “A high school principal has been put on leave after a Black student had [the] N-word scrawled on their desk — and their parents weren’t told about it for four days. System officials apologized for the delay.”

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We must think historically to cool down our post-election emotions. Historical perspectives clarify our recent presidential election and lower its post-election temperature.Let’s start with feudalism, of kings and lords, which we inherited from our...

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In 1814, Napoleon escaped from the island of Alba where he had been exiled after the disastrous Russian campaign. The newspapers in Paris reported: “Devil escapes from Alba.” Upon the news of his escape, many former French soldiers joined him in his...

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On Oct. 14, in Oaks, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump’s campaign was interrupted twice by medical emergencies in the crowd, and then Trump did a strange thing: He stopped his town hall Q&A and requested Schubert’s “Ave Maria” (“Hail Mary” in Latin) to be...

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In the last six presidential elections, the contests were so close that less than a 3% shift in the voters would have changed the outcome. In the November election, nobody expects a landslide.Why? It’s the very logic of a perfectly open democratic...

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Melania Trump, our former first lady, has written a book about herself, and some commentaries came along about her past career, which included posing nude for men’s magazines.I saw her nude photos years ago and, other than that they belong to our...

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During the recent presidential debate, Donald Trump held Kamala Harris responsible (as he did Joe Biden during the June 27 debate) for the tragedy of 13 soldiers dead in the hasty U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.Morning came and so did Sept. 11, and...

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During the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, President Joe Biden was making his farewell speech. In part, he said, “Years ago everybody was talking about how China would overtake America as the world’s superpower, but today, nobody talks...

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Quite reminiscent of “Hitler worship” among Germans, peaking after he easily conquered France, America’s own “Trump worship” among his followers has been noticed by Trump watchers. This phenomenon seemed to have peaked at the GOP convention in...

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During the early part of the Roman Empire, triumphant rulers and heroes had an accompanying slave whose job it was to whisper “Memento mori” (“Remember mortality”) to the great men of the hour. In ancient Korea, kings appointed the realm’s most...

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There is a Chinese phrase “jintui-liangnan,” which means you are caught in a situation from which you can go neither forward nor backward. The phrase is an apt reference to the dilemma of the American republic which faces trouble either way: If we go...

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During the last three generations, the focus of our consumption changed from primarily material things for comfort (like shoes and cars) to predominantly “mental” events for pleasure (such as entertainment like TV, internet, social media). So did our...