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Thursday, January 05, 2017
The Question on Everybody's Mind
A few weeks ago nobody would have even thought it. But his constant attempts at redirection have only raised suspicions.
Eventually, somebody is going to start asking out loud:
What did he know about the Russian hacking, and when did he know it?
The
Trump campaign knew in advance about WikiLeaks’ plans. Days before the
Podesta email release began, Roger Stone, a Republican operative working
with the Trump campaign, sent out an excited tweet about what was
coming.
But
in an interview, Mr. Stone said he had no role in the leaks; he had
just heard from an American with ties to WikiLeaks that damning emails
were coming.
This morning the NY Times asks: "What plausible reason could Donald Trump have for trying so hard to discredit America’s intelligence agencies and their finding that Russia interfered in the presidential election? Maybe he just can’t stand anyone thinking he didn’t, or couldn’t, win the presidency on his own."
To which my mind now involuntarily adds: "Or maybe ...."
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder (New York: Crown, 2017
"Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in addressing them. Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people. They put a face on globalization, arguing that its complex challenges were the result of a conspiracy against the nation.
Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Naziism, or communism in the twentiety century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.
2 comments:
We'll see who the responsible people from both parties are who step up to address this. Clapper did today!
Clapper was a rock.
This morning the NY Times asks: "What plausible reason could Donald Trump have for trying so hard to discredit America’s intelligence agencies and their finding that Russia interfered in the presidential election? Maybe he just can’t stand anyone thinking he didn’t, or couldn’t, win the presidency on his own."
To which my mind now involuntarily adds: "Or maybe ...."
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