Robert Reich Schooled Trump, He’s “Abusing His
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Posted On: 12/10/2016 11:54:45 PM
Robert Reich Schooled Trump, He’s “Abusing His Power And Acting Like A Two-Bit _______”, Ouch
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Robert Reich did not hold back in a recent column where he criticized President-Elect Donald Trump for his pathetic Carrier “job-saving” gimmick, and extended it into an all-encompassing takedown of our frighteningly incompetent and thin-skinned future nominal leader.
Wrote Reich, “Trump doesn’t take kindly to anyone criticizing him – not journalists (whom he refers to as “dishonest,” “disgusting” and “scum” when they take him on), not corporate executives, not entertainers who satirize him, not local labor leaders, no one.”
He continued, “The President-elect’s tendency to go after people who criticize him by sending false and provocative statements to his 16 million twitter followers not only imperils those people and their organizations. It also poses a clear and present danger to our democracy. Democracy depends on the freedom to criticize those in power without fear of retribution. No President or President-elect in history has ever before publicly condemned individual citizens for criticizing him. That occurs in two-bit dictatorships intent on stamping out dissent. No President or President-elect has ever before bypassed the media and spoken directly to large numbers of his followers in order to disparage individual citizens who criticize him. That occurred in the fascist rallies of the 1930s.”
Added Reich, “America came closest to this in the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy wrecked the lives of thousands of American citizens whom he arbitrarily and carelessly claimed were communists. McCarthy’s reign of terror ended when a single man asked him publicly, during the televised hearings McCarthy was conducting, “have you no decency, sir?” In that moment, Americans began to see McCarthy for the tyrant he was. McCarthy’s assistant was Roy Cohn, an attorney who perfected the art of character assassination. Roy Cohn was also one of Donald J. Trump’s mentors. Trump’s capricious use of power to denigrate and even endanger his critics must end. He is not yet our President. When he becomes so, he will have far greater power. Our freedom and our democracy could be gravely jeopardized. We must join together to condemn these acts. Has Trump no decency?” Do you agree with Reich?
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Robert Reich did not hold back in a recent column where he criticized President-Elect Donald Trump for his pathetic Carrier “job-saving” gimmick, and extended it into an all-encompassing takedown of our frighteningly incompetent and thin-skinned future nominal leader.
Wrote Reich, “Trump doesn’t take kindly to anyone criticizing him – not journalists (whom he refers to as “dishonest,” “disgusting” and “scum” when they take him on), not corporate executives, not entertainers who satirize him, not local labor leaders, no one.”
He continued, “The President-elect’s tendency to go after people who criticize him by sending false and provocative statements to his 16 million twitter followers not only imperils those people and their organizations. It also poses a clear and present danger to our democracy. Democracy depends on the freedom to criticize those in power without fear of retribution. No President or President-elect in history has ever before publicly condemned individual citizens for criticizing him. That occurs in two-bit dictatorships intent on stamping out dissent. No President or President-elect has ever before bypassed the media and spoken directly to large numbers of his followers in order to disparage individual citizens who criticize him. That occurred in the fascist rallies of the 1930s.”
Added Reich, “America came closest to this in the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy wrecked the lives of thousands of American citizens whom he arbitrarily and carelessly claimed were communists. McCarthy’s reign of terror ended when a single man asked him publicly, during the televised hearings McCarthy was conducting, “have you no decency, sir?” In that moment, Americans began to see McCarthy for the tyrant he was. McCarthy’s assistant was Roy Cohn, an attorney who perfected the art of character assassination. Roy Cohn was also one of Donald J. Trump’s mentors. Trump’s capricious use of power to denigrate and even endanger his critics must end. He is not yet our President. When he becomes so, he will have far greater power. Our freedom and our democracy could be gravely jeopardized. We must join together to condemn these acts. Has Trump no decency?” Do you agree with Reich?
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