Donald Trump’s Celebration of Civil War

The second civil war Trump wants

This is not just Trump’s rhetoric — it’s preparation. Democracy depends on whether we take him seriously. By Timothy Snyder Earlier this week Donald Trump called for a second civil war at a US military base. This scenario can be resisted and prevented, if we have the courage to listen, interpret, and act. And this Saturday we will have the occasion to act. The listening is important. The speech was given at the base now known again as Ft. Bragg.…

Donald Trump’s Celebration of Civil War

Contra Trump 呐喊   In America’s Real Cold War, an earlier chapter in Contra Trump & America’s Empire of Tedium, we used the Chinese rubric 苦迭打 kǔdiédǎ, or coup d’état, a term famously employed by Lin Biao, Mao Zedong’s key military co-conspirator in the Cultural Revolution, in a speech he made on 18 May 1966.… Read