We rightly excoriate Mitch McConnell for blowing up Senate norms and for the unprecedented treatment of Merrick Garland. But far, far worse was blackmailing the president to whitewash and cover up Russian manipulation of an American election. The correct word is treason.
Socrates was forced to eat hemlock. Ovid, Dante, & Emma Goldman were sent into exile. Margaret Sanger was jailed. Rosa Luxemburg, Gandhi and Martin Luther King were killed. Spinoza was excommunicated. Alan Dershowitz can't find anyone to dine with at Martha's Vineyard.
Trump's so-called political success consists of wringing more and more approval out of fewer and fewer people. That's why voter suppression has become ever more central to GOP electoral strategy, see CH 7 of my "Trumpocracy"
I’m a firm believer in one of the lines you hear players and coaches talk about: you have some control over process, very little over outcome. Just like in life.
Won’t complaint about one minute of this year. Jets!