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I usually watched the last few minutes of The Apprentice when I was waiting to see another program and quite frankly I couldn't see the hoop-la attached to Trump's so-called economic prowess! It seems my instincts were correct! Trump wasn't the hot shot economic wizard the program purported to claim. Yep, he was just a slick talking con man.
Trump's first and second run for the presidency showed an extreme narcissistic authoritarian behavior, a wicked brutish attitude towards those who dared to disagree. His economic and political history confirms an affinity towards breaking the law!
When I was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1963, I swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution. Nothing has changed! I consider Trump a threat to the U.S. Constitution and my freedom. He incited to riot, he tried to steal my vote, he intimidated election officials. He needs to face jail time!
As far as I am concerned, those Republicans who show a cavalier attitude towards Trump's constitutional usurpations are spitting on the U.S. Constitution!
I was outraged by the T.R. March 10 editorial "What we weren't shown about Jan. 6" by columnist Ben Shapiro. It was a shameful display of mental jujitsu when he downplayed the violence and mental suffering of the Capitol police, physical threats against elected officials and the wanton desecration of the U.S. Capitol.
Two famous dictums "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 and "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" by French philosopher Voltaire 1694-1778 are the psychological manifestos of the Republican Party.
Republican attacks against librarians are a step towards barbarism, an unleashing of irrationalism and a smother of reason. The Spanish artist Fransico Goya 1746-1828 once said "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters."
Teachers and librarians should encourage students to read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It was made into a movie in 1966. It's a story of a dystopian future where books are burned and a secret society is formed where people learn how to memorize whole books before they are destroyed. Perhaps Iowa Republicans would like to ban that book as well.