This is the fourth installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy. The legislative branch of the U.S. government is currently broken. When Donald Trump first served as president and was impeached twice, he should have been removed from office, but Republicans, who were and still are in the majority, were so much in thrall or in fear of Trump that…
This is the third installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy. POTUS Breaking Every Democratic Norm Donald J. Trump is a piece of work, isn’t he? He has broken every democratic norm and law he can think of, taking a metaphorical wrecking ball to the Constitution and a literal one to the East Wing of the White House. He has…
This is the second installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy. Reclaiming Our Democratic Values Before launching into specific ideas for improving U.S. democracy, we need to figure out where we are going, which requires reexamining and reclaiming our democratic values. What does it mean to be an American? What are we trying to accomplish for the country and the…