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I heard people using the term, Trump Derangement Syndrome, but paid little attention to it until now. It seems Trump Derangement Syndrome is a condition attributed to Trump supporters or Trump critics, depending on who us using the term. In both cases, it will likely last forever in some people...

We know Trump has a host of legal challenges to deal with now that he has lost the powers of the presidency. The first two are his impeachment trial in the Senate and the Mar-a-Lago residency question. Here's the latest on both: Trump Has No Legal Team or Strategy for Impeachment Trial Will...

Regarding the president or party and gas prices, or jobs, or the economy, or the stock market, or other such things, it is simplistic, misleading to others and perhaps even self-delusional to say a political entity (man or party) influences what the next economic indicator will be. If you look...

The spending spree (tax cut for the rich and COVID-19 relief) troubles me. When Trump took office four years ago, the national debt was $19.9 trillion. When he left office yesterday, the national debt was $28.0 trillion (Source). And it appears more deficit spending is on the way as Biden and...

Trump often hailed the rising stock market as an indicator of his administration's success. It's true. The market went up while Trump was president. Now that his term is complete we know the start-to-finish numbers: "The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw an annualized return of nearly 11.8%...

Moving forward from today, Trump's last day as president, there will be an endless stream of books, articles and TV commentary about how bad Trump was as a man, and how bad he was for the country. Fairness demands a respectful listening of the other side. In what ways was Donald Trump a good...

Trump has talked to associates about forming a new political party I do not see it as likely that Trump will break ranks with the Republican Party to start a party of his own named the Patriot Party, but it is interesting that the idea, and even the party name, has crossed his mind. This is...

The Trump insurrection has captured the headlines in recent days. COVID-19 is also part of the Trump story that will be forever told. This from the Associated Press: As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of...

Coordination or command and control, that's not the point. Notice the size of the group. It's tiny. Notice their outcome. They failed. Notice their fate. They are arrested and charged. As with that group, so too with all or most other militia-types, I believe. There are a bunch of them but they...

There is none. You are correct. I was mistaken.

Mitch McConnell: “The mob was fed lies,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on the last full day of Trump’s presidency. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal...

I don't think the war and MAGA army talk this video uses is helpful, and I'm not buying into it. It is inaccurate and irresponsible to paint MAGA with a broad brush and label all of them domestic terrorists. That is not to say there is no domestic terror threat to fear in the MAGA ranks. But I...

This is interesting. Cooperation in the new Senate now that Trump is out of the picture? McConnell, Schumer close in on power-sharing agreement

I'm not sure many of his donors will feel they were taken for a ride. They gave money to Trump when they wanted him to have it. They are not likely to follow the money to see what actually happened to it. It will be interesting to see how easy or hard it becomes for Trump to raise money in the...

Protest-wise, the weekend was quiet: "Crowds of only a dozen or two demonstrated at some boarded-up, cordoned-off statehouses, while the streets in many other capital cities remained empty. Some protesters said they were there to back President Donald Trump. Others said they had instead come to...

He's already doing it with a fund now established. The fine-print disclosure language of the fund allows Trump to spend most of the money any way he wants to. He raised the money telling donors it would be used to fight legal battles relating to election certification. He could use the same fund...

In the news in recent days, I've seen tens of thousands of Trump supporters and just two Antifa supporters. If you wish to pit Antifa v. MAGA, it would not be a long fight. It's pretty clear who the MAGA people are. Antifa is more mysterious; so much so that I think a lot of it is made up by...

So let's play this out a bit. Suppose, for the purposes of discussion, that the Senate proceeds with the impeachment trial and convicts Trump, and then takes the second vote and disqualifies him from holding future office. And/or suppose, for the purposes of discussion, that Trump is charged...

Regarding the validity of the upcoming Trump impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, this article raises some interesting points. https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/534557-should-donald-trump-skip-the-impeachment-trial

I spent little time analyzing MAGA people before the election but have become more interested in it now. Trump is fading but these people who are fellow community members remain with us, some in an agitated political state of mind. As I read more about "them," I'm careful to remind myself that...