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As disconcerted and angry as we may be, relative to the myriad criminal, unconstitutional, inhumane, and immoral acts of our sitting President, our fear for the future of the American Nation is paramount. To describe our trepidation in analogical terms, we would liken its nature to a parent’s concern for his young child, daily driven over bumpy country roads by a reputed, inebriated School Bus driver.

The populist election of Donald Trump boded well, solely, for those captains of industry who sociopathically exalt profits over human and planetary salubrity. Donald J. Trump, declaring the demagogic “snake oil” meme, “Make America Great Again,” From the first day following his inauguration, Trump incompetently assisted America’s enemies by virtue of his overriding neurotic aspiration for perceived public admiration and personal grandification. Future historians will have the pragmatic benefit of countless dumpster-fulls of fetid detritus engendered by his egocentric delusion and empirically hapless incapability.

Nonetheless, as egregious as his opprobrious acts and policies have proved to be, our responsive outrage has been fundamentally overshadowed by an abject fear for the endurance of our democratic Nation, founded upon his discernable insanity. Trump’s obvious lack of reality orientation, motivated by his self-serving delusion, has proven to be palpable proof of his evident lack of mental health. We would briefly recount several instances, illustrative of the basis for our thematic declarations.

(a) During the course of his campaign for the Presidency, Trump publicly announced that he would rule (“the first day”) as a dictator. The same was an untoward and highly inappropriate declaration in a democratic election.

(b) As President, Trump outrageously claimed his intention to acquire Denmark’s Greenland, make our sovereign neighbor, Canada, a State of the Union, take back the Panama Canal, and rename the historic “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Bay of America.” The dystopic assertions are a diagnosable denial of history and the right of sovereignty.

(c) In a Nation historically featuring two major competing political parties, he has been engaged in implementing his paranoid declaration to seek “retribution” against members of the historically competing Democratic Party.

(d) Contrary to the anti-monarchial theme of the Founders, Donald Trump egotistically installed gold leaf throughout the White House in the manner of the past European Monarchist Palaces, he was a European Monarch, a style eschewed by the Founders. We are advised that the White House restrooms have also been thus enriched. He has arrogated to himself the monomaniacal authority to destroy the historic East Wing of the Nation’s (“The People’s) White House to construct a large and Ballroom, named after himself; in addition to its irrational hubris and philisophical travesty to American history, the progect will cost many millions of dollars, at a time when many Americans are living “paycheck to paycheck”.

(e) Donald J. Trump has unprecedentedly chosen to raise a private, masked army to harass and incarcerate Hispanic Americans, incarcerating and banishing them, as claimed criminals without a modicum of due process. He has also, in illegal and kinglike fashion, used the Nation’s military for his perceived domestic necessity. These latter acts, justified by “Executive Order: are irrational and contrary to the basic tenets of our Republican Democracy, as well as notably erratic.

(f) Without mandatory Congressional authority, Trump has declared War against Venezuela, bombing small boats on the high seas and murdering its sailors, on the spurious grounds that such warlike action is interdicting the importation of drugs.

(g) Donald J. Trumo has demonstrated not only his delusional hubris and dystopic sdense of reality, as shown by “(e) and “(f)”, above, and futher demonstrated by his delusional ideation and public declaration that the Nation’s economy is in excellent condition and the cost of consumer goods is lower than ever; the latter two irrational declarations, empirically far from the contrary sane observation that both are decidedly false; and notably, the result of his irrational and ignorant policies, most especially his inappropriate imposition of tariffs on our trading partners

(h) His unauthorized declaration of War against Venezuela, including the bombing of small boats and the illegal murder of Venezuelan sailors.

(i) Publicly and bizarrely announcing his felt entitlement to the Nobel Prize, despite his warlike and pathological acts set forth above, particularly, “(g)” and “(h).” Arranging to be publicly awarded (non-existent) “FIFA Peace Prize” his public declaration that the thousands of young soldiers interred at Arlington National Cemetery were “suckers” and “losers” and, emblematic of his warped persona, asked, “What was in it for them?”

(j) Hubristically and delusionally changing the name of the Kennedy Cultural and Arts Center to include “The Trump Center,” whereas empirically, the hubristic, egocentric neurotic deserves the equal cultural and artistic recognition as “Godzilla.

Article 25 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states the procedure for the removal of a disabled President. We would urge Congress to utilize this provision before Trump and his side-show menagerie of Cabinet Advisors demonstrate more grave damage to our beloved Democratic Republic.

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• Novel by William Faulkner; taken from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”

We include ourselves among the great many who mourn the ever-increasing societal trend toward personal insularity. In our view, such insalubrious change is the predictably empirical root and branch of ubiquitous discontent, and conceivably, the requisite element for the recent, unprecedented election of an amoral and repugnant personality to the office of the traditionally august American Presidency

Our thematically worrisome anti-societal trend is plainly evidenced by the observable decline in communal interactive functions such as picnics, barbeques, get-togethers, and community outings; and, notably, the rare, if at all still existent, practice of meaningful social and political conversation.

In contradistinction to the history of societal participation in communally oriented tasks for mutual benefit, individuals have observably withdrawn into a reductive, personalized, private world of their own. This latter development is empirically productive of feelings of loneliness and insecurity and ultimately, of personal discontent. It sadly appears that traditionally communal pleasures such as picnics, barbeques, square dances, and multiple other areas of beneficial, interactive participations have ubiquitously surrendered to preferento insular, personally reductive aspirations, designed exclusively for material success and occasional, ephemeral entertainment.

Regular readers of this blogspace are doubtlessly aware that we emphatically attribute the toxic etiology of such negative trends to the inadequate (and unsatisfying) mode of interactive communication, attributable to the notably impersonal “smart phone,” and the consequent diminution of emotionally required, recognizable, and self-affirming interaction.

Among the myriad of distressing sequelae of such degradation of interactive relations was the universal accommodation to such personally less satisfying, facile “advance” social exchange, and its resultant hobbling of the pathway for the humanistic need to effectively share thoughts and experiences. The existential element in enduring societal relationships is the empirical sharing of feelings and experiences, now significantly minimized by the inadequately cold digital exchange transmitted to small, lighted, handheld devices, often received without temporal relevance.

The ensuing trend of societally injurious isolation is empirically evidenced by, among other things, the costly emotional loss of a vital, healthy, self-affirming interaction with others and the myriad of personal benefits, social and psychological, derived from shared communal living; the diminution of the latter empirically resulting to feelings of personal isolation and insularity.

To be fair, the pandemic played its concommitantly injurious part in the necessitating of the prophylactic isolation of members of the community aggravated by the disease- preventative masking of individual identity; however, we are of the view that the insalubrious trend to anti-social insularity is notably, the consequence of the foolhardy human inclination to favor perceived facile mechanical devices, thoughtlessly, to the societally harmful and unthinking exclusion of emotionally required, expressive modes of personal interaction.

The Pinocchio-like, thoughtless seduction of computer facility, metastasized into a pernicious virus, amounting to a universal desire for further impersonal facility by way of robotization, exemplified by devices such as, “Alexa” remote actuators, robot-assisted driving, robotic vacuum cleaning, and auto-directional devices, as well as dating services, encyclopedic telephones (as opposed to the enriching and affirming activity of personal research), to the development of drones, personalized digital health watches, computerized books (in ignorant contrast to the tactual pleasure of holding a book and arbitrarily turning the page), the mechanization of the concept of”friend” and perhaps, morfe extremde, the scholastic cheating utility of A.I.,

The exclusive quest for individualized convenience and facility is demonstrated in the desire to attend an institution of higher education for the singular purpose of the future acquisition of a job, rather than, concomitantly, for a more mature perspective and personal growth. It sadly appears that no universal principles of sophisticated insight are of recognizable utility to the analogous, insular island located among a perceived geographic archipelago of similar, unrelated islands.

Such a thematic, disparate, insular, and perceptively individualized existence of the modern individual extends perforce to family matters. Family gatherings before the television or formerly, before the family radio, even at mealtime, have become empirically rare and anachronistic. The infrequent attendance at family dinner, often punctuated by a young member of the assembled family, engaged in consulting his or her smartphone surreptitiously under the table, is not an exotic occurrence.

We are greatly troubled by the evident lack of a mature, healthy, and empathic World perspective, analogous to the “geological phenomena” of separate and remote human islands in the unattached archipelago of human society

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In the Winter holiday season, our third-grade public school teacher drew a line down the length of the blackboard and titled each of the two resultant sections, “Christmas” and “Hanukkah.” She then listed in each half several of the attractive traditions of each holiday. We remember her kind efforts at social inclusion and student brotherhood to this day,a great many decades later,

Yet, concomitant with our recognition of her kindness, we nevertheless felt that the same was somewhat overdone; since Christmas is, inarguably, the most celebrated and ornate of Christian religious festivals and observances, while Hanukkah, presumably, is a historical observance of far less cultural impact. As we grew older and more reflective, we realized that the celebration of Hanukkah’s military success in its war with the Seleucid Empire was no less than an existentially vital event for Christianity as well as the Jewish People.

Ancient history shows that Christianity originated in the first Century in Judea as a Jewish sect, centered on the life, teachings, and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, with its theology spreading through the missionary work of Apostles like Paul, across the Roman Empire, and empirically developing from a modest Jewish movement to a world religion.

It is inarguable that since Christianity developed from (had its roots in) Judaism, had the Seleucid Empire in the Maccabean Wars, (whose victory is annually celebrated by the Festival of Hannukkah), been successful in their earlier attempts to destroy the Jewish population, there would, as an empirical result, have been no Christianity.

From a historical standpoint, we came to realize that the “Festival of Lights” (Hannukkah) is a holiday whose joyous celebration (seven days) is an occasion of formidably important significance, perhaps unrealized to Christians as well as Jews.

As a universally metaphysical matter, it is difficult to rationally comprehend the age-old, horrifically demonstrated institution of bigotry, bearing in mind that, as depicted in the New Testament, Jesus, empirically, was a tan-skinned Palestinian Jew.

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It is empirically predictable that society will eternally have its unfortunate number of aberrant personalities; it is certainly not inevitable that they possess weapons of human destruction. Tragically recurring instances of injury and death demonstrate their hazardous presence in civilized society.

We will once more declare that the ownership of guns, despite common propagandic memes, is not authorized by the Constitution nor statute. Our confident declaration is not alone symptomatic of our confident assertion; it is authoritatively ratified by the plain reading of Early American history. As stated in prior writings, the NRA and others who self-interestedly proclaim that the Second Amendment to the Constitution grants the right to American citizens to own and use guns are proximally responsible for yesterday’s tragic events at Brown University, as well as the plethora of ubiquitous tragic events in public schools, parks, places of worship, in fact, everywhere.

In contrast to our small pocket knife, whose utility extends to cutting a string to open packages, whittling, or eating fruit, the utility of guns is singularly and perniciously limited to inflicting serious injury or death.

The distortion of the contextual terminology of the Second Amendment stems from the ubiquitous combination of personal self-interest (commercial profit) or ignorance of early American History. In no wise did the prudent “Founders” intend to authorize every American citizen to be a “gunslinger,” as the gun lobby would pretend. The intent of the grant to the “People” was not intended for the general American population.

History attests to the serious, hotly contested debate between the “Federalists” and the States’ Rights (Colonists), whether the new Nation would be administered by one Central Government or by several separate State or Colonial Governments. The definitional status of governmental authority, as then perceived, possessed the right to raise and maintain a standing Army; thus an historical compromise was reached to recognize a Central Government but agree that each State (“The People”) would have the right, nevertheless, to raise its own armed militia; and that the People (State Militias) would have the riught to bear arms. This enlightening and determinative fact is objectively referable to early American history and not to polemic.

We have been eternally frustrated at the subjective and convenient misreading of the relevant Constitutional Amendment, its popular acceptance, and agonized at the consequent tragic results. We are also puzzled and frustrated that the opponents of gun ownership do not make this empirically legal argument.

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We’ve been told the ancient bard,
Could hear the “music of the spheres.”
We have since seen harmony on high,
Tho astral strains are never heard.
We do hear the music of “our” sphere,
Where virtuosos perform in nature’s realm.
One has but to will to hear.

The splash of raindrops on trembling leaves,
And whistled wind-song thru dark reeds,
The high-pitched scratch of cricket limbs,
The basso profundo of bullfrog croaks,
And redundant “coo” of mourning doves,

The baby summoning her mom,
The wolf intoning his baritone aria,
The countless chirps of little birds,
The gleeful chatter of sportive chipmunks,
The staccato sound of barking dogs,
The brassy honks of flyover geese,
The lake’s soft slosh on muddy banks.

One can, in truth, faintly hear,
If he listens, most meditatively,
The upward thrust of perennial plants,
The final melt of tardy snow,
Spring, is that really you?
Have you just returned?
Welcome, do come in, Spring, my love.
Bienvenue!

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Leonard N, Shapiro, 12/13/25, Kingston, N.Y.

Many of our writings may fairly be termed opinionated or questioning; others express observations and editorial comments; this writing, by contrast, has as its thematic intention the raising of the fundamental question: asa to why the subject of immigration is so problematic?

Generally defined, “Immigration” is the action of leaving one’s country of origin or domicile to live permanently in another country. Our thematic query relates to the empirical cause of the ubiquitous opposition to the understandable desire to live a better, often freer, life. It may be contextually emphasised that the United States of America (excluding its indigenous peoples) is populated universally by immigrants and their generational progeny.

It may be strangely observed that many, if not most, of the developed industrial countries share the same negativity; many have relevantly gone politically rightward, where national identity is historically or traditionally sacrosanct. Is it possibly the myth of superior or historically familiar folkways, atavistic fear of change, selfishness, fear of competition for jobs or resources, or just plain pernicious xenophobic bigotry?

The horrific policies of the autocratic-leaning Trump Administration in raising a Halloween-masked palace army of Gestapo-like goons to harass, arrest, incarcerate, and banish Hispanic people on the bogus suspicion of being criminals without a modicum of due process is an extreme and shameful demonstration of perverse xenophobia. Donald J. Trump and his MAGA cultish lemmings are an extreme, nightmarish example of hatred and loathing of immigrants, but not singularly atypical of the thematic inhumane conundrum. It is to be emphatically noted that many immigrants are fugitives, fleeing for their lives from autocratic tyranny. We might also relevantly note that Congress has historically provided a body of precedential legislation regarding fugitive and general immigration, and that the Statue of Liberty, holding her lamp to guide the “[poor and huddled masses…”] to a better and safer life in America, is tactically positioned in New York’s East River. to face outward from the Nation, in keeping with Emma Lazarus’ poetic invitation.

We, ourselves, are grateful, first-generation beneficiaries of immigrants who fled Soviet political repression and the brutality of religious pogroms. As typical of our experience as children of refugees, we have been educated, employed, paid taxes, and served in the military as proud and grateful American citizens.

We will readily (and perhaps gratefully) admit that we cannot conceive of a conceivably rational explanation for the selfish and pernicious bigotry that underlies the extant, universal prejudice against needy human beings, seeking a better life by immigration. As a practical matter you will have to ask those MAGA miscreants who selfishly celebrate the non-empathic elimination of USAID, the foolhady and ignorant elimination of the Nation’s .health and education agencies, the hobbling of Medicare and Medicaid, the reduction of student loans, the elimination of regulations assuring clean water and healthy food, the cruel opponents of abortion, the proponents of fossil fuel and guns, and sundry other saintly MAGA personalities.

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The word “trophy, has its historical roots in past monuments to victory, and is contemporarily understood to signify an award given in recognition of a victory, or unique accomplishment. However, certain trophies appropriate to notable achievements are purely intrinsic and not exemplified by the traditional cup, plaque, or gold medal. We submit that this category of award, albeit unsung, is customarily representative of human victories, uncontrovertedly more esteemed than those represented by temporal, physical representations.

At this early stage of the present writing, we would like to plead “Guilty” to the understandable assertion of any reactive indictment that its context is conceivably self-serving (we are, relevantly, 89 years of age), but would assert as a mitigating defense that we esteem the subject, nevertheless, to be valuable and, conceivably of interest to the reader.

Our contextual trophy is implicitly awarded, in notable contrast to the plethora of flashy television advertisements for cosmetics and face-lifts, and silently, but reverentially, in recognition of the laudable achievement of a life of recognizable achievement of wisdom and mature perception. Unlike the ubiquitous, ephemeral desire for an eternal youthful appearance in the inevitable face of a developing maturity, evidenced by the discernible aging and diminution of physical capability, but, instead, by the personal accumulation of wisdom, from years of chosen enriching experience, supplemented by a lifetime of inquiry and saubrious reading.

The highly venerated empirical philosopher, John Locke, famously declared that Man’s knowledge is derived solely from his (personal) empirical experience. Accordingly, those members of the human species who have thus accumulated wisdom during their alloted years of perceptive and thoughtful life experience, have justly earned the salutary acknowledgement of a fulfilled life and are inarguably deservant of the thematic “trophy” of human achievement; despite their observably concommitant natural physical decline, Such achievement makes appropriate the thematically laudable “trophy” awardable for the successful attainment of a fulfilled life.

Notably, this contextually esteemed and invaluable trophy is not displayed in a glass-enclosed cabinet nor on a prominent shelf in the study; it is ineluctably discernible by rewarding interaction with the aged, often wrinkled and physically disabled, but wise, trophy winner.

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To appropriately conceptualize the “peace negotiations” between Putin’s Russia, which chose to attack Ukraine, and the victimized nation itself, we would recount the simplified but historically accurate, factual scenario. Putin’s Russia, which, by the exercise of illegal and unjustified aggression in 2014, outrageously stole two significant areas of Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas, chose to imperialistically attack that sovereign State in February 2022; which illegal and immoral aggression constitutes the largest conflict in Europe since World War 2, resulting in massive citizen death and displacement and widespread international condemnation.

To responsibly furnish some contextual provenance, we would be remiss not to add to the scenario the simultaneous, publicly demonstrated “bromance” between the politically wily and deceptive former KGP head, Putin, and the haplessly neurotic and inept would-be dictator, Donald J. Trump.

Trump, consistent with his inveterate and systemic nature, had, in his customary “snake oil” demagoguery, asserted that, if elected, he would, in his first week, both lower consumer prices and make peace between Russia and Ukraine. His tactical representations, as customary, were equally shown to be demagogically false and tactically deceitful.

It is to eternally be recognized that it was Putin’s autocratic Russia that unprovokedly and immorally attacked the sovereign democratic nation of Ukraine. Notwithstanding any consideration of justice and logic, the present American (i.e., Trump’s) peace plan would reward the egregious Russian aggression by ceding the rest of Ukraine’s Donbas region to Russia and delimiting the size of the Ukrainian military as well as enjoining its membership in NATO. In the street lingo of our early childhood, we would loudly protest with something like, “Whattya kiddin’ me?!” Trump would reward Putin’s aggression by bizarrely gifting victory to the wrongdoer, without military cost. In a rationally just world, in contrast to the egocentrically neurotic reality of Donald J. Trump, such an offer of peace would be Kafka-esque or one proffered by the “Mad Hatter” of Lewis Carroll.

An offer of settlement by which a criminal is dystopically authorized to retain a debated portion of his robbery is inarguably beyond equitably appropriate reason, albeit within the distorted, empirical wisdom of the orange emperor and love-partner of despots. It is to be eternally borne in mind that it was Putin who egregiously invaded Ukraine and whose tragically obscene profit is to be summarily renounced and emphatically rejected.

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The multitude of ubiquitous, undemocratic, unconstitutional, and authoritarian acts performed by the ill-fated Presidency of Donald J. Trump, exacerbated by the compliant policies of his menagerie of Cabinet Secretaries and a sycophantic Congress, factually underlie the fear of traditional American citizens for the very survival of their unique and precious Democratic Republic. The unprecedented, and hubristic actions of the authoritarian, power-hungry policies of the “Orange Hazmat” are as plentiful as they are systemically un -American. Unfettered by a catatonic Congress and an unprecedentedly partisan Supreme Court, such misgivings appear to be empirically justified.

As described and delineated in prior writings (and as universally observed), Trump’s executive miscreance has toxicly metastasized to all three branches of constitutionally authorized governance, hubristically destroying all uniformly accepted principles, legal and moral, in pursuit of his megalomaniac lust for power and perceived adoration. Not only have constitutional boundaries been trespassed, but, in addition, international commitments, political, economic, and environmental, have been egregiously disrespected. No less than the existential societal standard of “truth” has been denigrated by this sui generis malefactor, in tactical favor of his self-interested “alternate facts.” Rationally supportable fears concerning the altered character of the Nation have been increasing with every outrageous display of Trump’s miscreance and observable lack of moral compass; exacerbated by the realization that his is the most powerful and consequential office on Planet Earth.

Traditionally free American citizens peering into the frightening historical rear-view mirror see the sad decline of democracies, such as the Republic of Germany, (The Weimar Republic), Hungary, and sundry other Nations, transmogrified to a detestable authoritarian State. The fear is that our precious democracy will, in like manner, empirically suffer the “death by a thousand cuts,” the latter, daily perpetrated under the monomaniacal, authoritarian Trump rule.

However, a more positive and contemplative look at the analogical”rear view mirror” would contrastingly reveal that the unique phenomenon of a Nation, whose historical dedication of a “government, ” by and for the People, however attainable or in the dynamic stage of desired attainment, is a historically unique, “radical” phenomenon. The Nation’s aspirational progress towards its avowed salubrious goals has, admittedly, been slow, but nevertheless, demonstratively progressive.

It is empirically irrefutable that the “American Way of Life,” with its systemic dynamics of individualized liberty and aspirational progress towards the avowed goal of universal equality, is admittedly vulnerable, but, nevertheless, existentially prized and systemically accommodated. In our view, regardless of the temporal persistence of Trumpian anti-democratic toxicity, the empirical experience of the contextual desire for freedom will ultimately endure.

To hazard a mundane analogical reference, for the sake of thematic emphasis, in the face of such a serious contextual subject, we would ask: After the experience of a freshly baked, New York “everything bagel,” could you, at all, conceivably, find an ersatz, out-of-town, counterfeit replication acceptable?

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It is revealing to note that, despite Donald J. Trump’s election on the Republican ticket, he emphatically is not a Republican, MAGA or otherwise. Aside from the numerous empirical affirmations of such a declaration, several of which are included in this writing, we respectfully challenge the reader to recall any indication of political belief made by our deceitful grifting protagonist. The eternally debated issues, such as free trade, big government, finance, the national debt, economic policy, government programs of financial aid and medical assistance, domestic or foreign, and any of the sundry issues in eternal debate, Trump has used the now toothless Republican Party to garner and support the position of Chief Executive and facilitate his neurotic hubris. He is a serial grifter, not a political partisan.

Donald J. Trump is no more a politician than the “Right to Life” adherents are protectors of life; the latter, opposing government support to needy children, favoring the right to own and use guns, and supporting atavistic capital punishment. Trump, the gifted fraud and snake-oil salesman, is reductively aware of one singular, egocentric issue: his personal recognition as an admired “Winner.” Our judgmental declaration is supported by his observed policies and choices of action or inaction; the latter, singularly fueled by his egocentric and narcissistic insecurity and not by the Republican or any other extant political credo.

The extant Republican Party, unfortunately characterized by a remarkable number of populists, constituted the best tactical choice in the Nation’s two-party political system, for the contextual grifter. As we came to understand it, “Make America Great Again,” in its tactically intended context, dynamically translated to “Make Trump A Winner,” irrespective of the nature of its potential impact upon the Nation.

Trump’s primitively neurotic instincts were rewarded by a Republican Congress, catatonically compliant with the desires and policies of the Orange cultmaster; often compliantly dismissive of the wishes of their respective constituents. Such lemming-like communal obesience led to the loyal approval of Presidential policies and actions, eventuating in a notable decline in the American Nation’s institutional standing and moral authority and its historical standing as an avatar of liberty, democracy, and empathy for the disadvantaged.

The neurotic hubris of the errant President led to an unprecedented derogation of the Founders’ architecture of America’s” Separation of Powers,” and “Checks and Balances,” as evidenced by the despicable usurpation by the autocratic Trump of the authority constitutionally allocated to the three distinct branches of government.

Thus, authority solely exercisable by Congress, or requiring its mandatory approval, was autocratically usurped by the despotic Trump, who, in his hubristic self-delusion, proclaimed legislation, with regal authority, via his formidable thick-imaging, black “Sharpie.” These included ubiquitous “Executive Orders, without regard for the constitutional allocation of specified authority among the three branches of the Nation’s systemic architecture. Such errant authority included the devising of arbitrary tariffs, waging war on Venezuelan boats at sea, and dismissing federal civil service agencies, such as those administering the vital duties of National Education, Health, and Medical Research; such subjects legally within the purview of requisite Congressional approval.

The bizarre failure of Donald J. Trump to tactically and wisely choose to, initially (and easily) obtain the legally required and predictably assured consent,. by the gtrump-cultish Congress, mandated for certain prescribed Presidential acts, empirically reflects both his ignorant incapability, and thematically, his dystopian illusions of monarchical grandeur. His demonstrated instincts are systematically those of a skillful serial grifter and megalomaniac, and distinctly not those of a political partisan.

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