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struggle4progress

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Sat Aug 31, 2019, 05:31 PM Aug 2019

14 reasons I'll vote for any Democrat [View all]

By Max Boot
Columnist
August 31 at 1:18 PM

... Trump exulted when, at his urging, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to let two Democratic members of Congress visit Israel ...

Trump accused Jews of “great disloyalty” for not backing him ... then quoted a discredited conspiracy-monger claiming Israelis “love him like he is the second coming of God” ...

Trump expressed interest in buying Greenland. When the prime minister of Denmark rightly dismissed this idea .. canceled his visit ...

Trump reversed his support for background checks .. under pressure from the gun lobby ...

... Sounding like a Soviet central planner, he tweeted on Aug. 23: “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China.” The same day, he called Xi an “enemy.” Within three days, he was calling Xi “a great leader” .. and claiming he had received two phone calls from Beijing to restart talks. Chinese officials did not confirm any such calls, and two Trump aides told CNN he had lied to calm markets ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/31/here-are-reasons-ill-vote-any-democrat-over-trump/

I have never thought much of Max Boot's views. But in the present crisis, I am certainly willing to form alliances with people who I regard as sane (but misguided) to free ourselves from the reign of the criminally insane

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