Silly me, I thought when the election was over Trump would fade away and I wouldn't have to look at his cartoony orange hair any more. So guess I'll have to bite the bullet and follow the Big Man more. What got me most about Trump this week was the news that he will continue as President to be Executive Producer of "
The Celebrity Apprentice."
Yes, Trump has been named Person of the Year by Time Magazine; no, it's not more fake news. The Washington Post has this to say about it:
Donald Trump is (finally) named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’.
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This is just wishful thinking.
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A thumbs up to the Kellogg Company for saying last week that "ads for its brands would no longer appear on Breitbart." This is quoted from
an article in the New Yorker about Breitbart's response. Has the former Executive Chair of Breitbart really been designated by Trump as his chief strategist in the White House? Answer:
Yes.
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I ran across a large volume of Alexis de Tocqueville's
Democracy in America, published in 1835, this week. He spoke of the "
tyranny of the majority," a concept the founding fathers understood well. It's ironic that
The Electoral College was created for two reasons. The first purpose was to create a buffer between population and the selection of a President. The second as part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller states. (Marc Schulman, History Central)
and the Electoral College is what put Trump in office. This article at Vox is to me most illuminating: "
The people’s tyrant: what Plato can teach us about Donald Trump."
-- Marge
