Month: March 2019

“democratically elected leader”
That phrase was recently used in a right-wing post on the internet. It should be pointed out, wherever and whenever necessary, that Donald Trump was never “elected”, democratically or otherwise, to the presidency of th U.S. He was “selected”, after losing the popular vote by almost 3 million voters, through an arcane system known as the “electoral college”. The only thing that keeps him in office is the 30% or so of registered voters for whom he, himself, Donald J Trump, is a perfect duplicate. This “base”, when combined with the traditional Republican base of ordinary people, is what gave the GOP their total control of everything. Now that Americans or learning, the hard way, what they have in the oval office is not what they bargained for, there is hope that traditional Republicans will see the error of their ways.