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<\/a><\/p>\nTom Schaller:
\nDeclaring War on The Declaration<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Declaration is loaded with meanings, some of them inherently self-contradictory. Its opening paragraphs are spine-tinglingly profound, but the bulk of the document is a grievous rant. The document set a global standard for freedom and self-governance as naturally inherent human rights, yet bounded those rights to a privileged white, male minority. It is timeless yet also somewhat outdated for American politics today.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the Declaration of Independence penned primarily by Thomas Jefferson allows self-interested parties to validate their agendas by importing into that sacred document their preferred interpretations of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Precisely because the Declaration is so ripe for political manipulation, having Donald Trump lead the nation during this semi-quincentennial anniversary offers a fitting, if bleak, opportunity to litigate anew the Declaration\u2019s political utility.
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Historians and political scientists typically rank<\/a> Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as among the greatest US presidents. But Washington was the nation\u2019s most indispensable chief executive, and for one reason: He relinquished power.<\/p>\nIn a stunning rebuke of the precedent set by centuries of priests, kings, and authoritarians before him, Washington surrendered control of the continental army after the war and then voluntarily returned to his homestead in 1797 following two terms as America\u2019s first president.
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Unfortunately, not everyone reveres Washington\u2019s example.
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Gil Duran:
\n\u201cCultural heroin.\u201d JD Vance on Donald Trump<\/a><\/h2>\nTen years ago today, JD Vance published an essay that called Donald Trump \u201ccultural heroin\u201d and \u201can opioid of the masses\u201d:<\/p>\n
During this election season, it appears that many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever. It too, promises a quick escape from life\u2019s cares, an easy solution to the mounting social problems of U.S. communities and culture. It demands nothing and requires little more than a modest presence and maybe a few enablers. It enters minds, not through lungs or veins, but through eyes and ears, and its name is Donald Trump.
\nVance used a striking drug metaphor to explain the Trump phenomenon in 2016. In Vance\u2019s telling, Trump was addictive and dangerous, a substance that gave people an artificial feeling of wellbeing while causing them dramatic harm.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nTen years later, Vance\u2014Trump\u2019s vice president\u2014is the #1 pusher of the toxic man he once referred to as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Hitler.\u201d What does this tell us?
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Heather Delaney Reese: Donald Trump changed everything tonight<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nDuring the next thirty minutes, the inspiring and optimistic address Americans had been promised to celebrate 250 years of this nation never came. Instead, Donald Trump delivered one of the most radical and dangerous speeches of either of his presidencies, declaring that the Democratic Party was made up of communists, promising that communists would be sent into exile, and outlining a plan that he said would ensure Republicans \u201cwill not lose an election for a hundred years.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Clearwater was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Sail by the USCG and escorted out of the Exclusion Zone by the US Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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In a stunning rebuke of the precedent set by centuries of priests, kings, and authoritarians before him, Washington surrendered control of the continental army after the war and then voluntarily returned to his homestead in 1797 following two terms as America\u2019s first president.
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Unfortunately, not everyone reveres Washington\u2019s example. Ten years ago today, JD Vance published an essay that called Donald Trump \u201ccultural heroin\u201d and \u201can opioid of the masses\u201d:<\/p>\n During this election season, it appears that many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever. It too, promises a quick escape from life\u2019s cares, an easy solution to the mounting social problems of U.S. communities and culture. It demands nothing and requires little more than a modest presence and maybe a few enablers. It enters minds, not through lungs or veins, but through eyes and ears, and its name is Donald Trump. Ten years later, Vance\u2014Trump\u2019s vice president\u2014is the #1 pusher of the toxic man he once referred to as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Hitler.\u201d What does this tell us? …
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<\/a><\/p>\nGil Duran:
\n\u201cCultural heroin.\u201d JD Vance on Donald Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nVance used a striking drug metaphor to explain the Trump phenomenon in 2016. In Vance\u2019s telling, Trump was addictive and dangerous, a substance that gave people an artificial feeling of wellbeing while causing them dramatic harm.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n(Gil Duran more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHeather Delaney Reese: Donald Trump changed everything tonight<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDuring the next thirty minutes, the inspiring and optimistic address Americans had been promised to celebrate 250 years of this nation never came. Instead, Donald Trump delivered one of the most radical and dangerous speeches of either of his presidencies, declaring that the Democratic Party was made up of communists, promising that communists would be sent into exile, and outlining a plan that he said would ensure Republicans \u201cwill not lose an election for a hundred years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nClearwater was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Sail by the USCG and escorted out of the Exclusion Zone by the US Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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