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      Will Trump End Up In Prison?

      Will Trump End Up In Prison?

      Accountability for criminal Republican presidents can't happen soon enough.

      Thom Hartmann
      Apr 17, 2021

      The Biden administration on Thursday laid it right out in the open.

      It's time to seriously discuss a 60-year problem we've had with treasonous and illegitimate Republican presidents.

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      Would Refugee Baby Jesus Have Been Torn From Mary's Arms by Trump?

      Would Refugee Baby Jesus Have Been Torn From Mary's Arms by Trump?

      These American, Christian politicians would not have admitted the holy family when they fled Herod the Great.

      Juan Cole
      Dec 23, 2019

      In this political season in which refugees have become a political football, it is worthwhile remembering that baby Jesus is depicted by the Bible as being a political refugee not once but twice.

      NBC reports,

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      Two Former U.S. Presidents Simultaneously Advocate for a Close Family Member as the Next U.S. President

      Two Former U.S. Presidents Simultaneously Advocate for a Close Family Member as the Next U.S. President

      Americans love to mock the British for choosing -- in the 21st century -- to live under a monarchy and honor the hereditary succession of a royal family. I enthusiastically participate in that derision. Few concepts are as antithetical to reason and democratic liberty as anointing families that are vested with an entitlement to wield power through dynasty and lineage.

      Glenn Greenwald
      Feb 16, 2016

      Americans love to mock the British for choosing -- in the 21st century -- to live under a monarchy and honor the hereditary succession of a royal family. I enthusiastically participate in that derision. Few concepts are as antithetical to reason and democratic liberty as anointing families that are vested with an entitlement to wield power through dynasty and lineage.

      The U.S. officially has no formal royal families, but clearly loves dynastic political power. As the U.S. becomes increasingly oligarchical -- all of its institutions, including its political ones, dominated by a tiny number of extremely rich families -- it is natural that all forms of hereditary power will flourish. There are still examples of people from backgrounds devoid of family wealth or influence attaining political power -- Barack Obama certainly qualifies -- but it's virtually impossible for them to succeed without the overwhelming support of those oligarchical circles.

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