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Dan Rottenberg's avatar

From reader Michael Schefer:

You said --

"The Central Overland needed a benevolent despot. Such a position would require someone who was fearless, audacious, incorruptible, perhaps a bit crazy."

That's who Trump is. He's actually doing the same sorts of things that were done by all of those folks who you approve of— and you are aligning yourself with the folks who disapproved of what they were doing. You like the status quo of the big fat and smug institutions.

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Dan Rottenberg's avatar

Trump is incorruptible?

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Dan Rottenberg's avatar

From reader Robert Zaller:

Yes, Lincoln and Gandhi made a difference, but so did Hitler and Stalin. And one must be careful what one wishes for. Indian independence cost millions of lives when the British withdrew, and our Civil War 700,000. And, yes, ordinary individuals might make decent presidents (although they might also drop atomic bombs). But what if your fellow citizens choose the worst person in the country to govern them? That seems to be the problem now.

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Joseph Glantz's avatar

Ben Franklin - "We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we will all hang separately. "If, for example, all the law firms joined together, they'd have much more leverage than when each one negotiates separately.

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Henry Jay Forman's avatar

One of your best essays yet. When will we see the courage of another Liz Chaney? At this point, every R who opposes any of der Fuhrer’s goals quickly declines to run for reelection rather than makes a real fight of it. Some Ds are fighting back but the question of effectiveness is real. Newsom’s mockery of der Fuhrer’s posts seems to have both upset the Fux News clowns and caused the fat idiot’s writers to find lower case for his posts. But what would Pritzker do other than go to court?

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Neil Kleinman's avatar

This brought tears to my eyes. We are not lost when someone is willing to fight against the odds. Thanks for reminding me. I'm reminded of a comment Luther made when called to the Diet of Worms to recant his writings: "I can do no other."

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