A malevolent president: The founders anticipated this.
A malevolent president: The founders anticipated this. They provided a remedy:
Impeachment.
After only five months, we have seen Donald Trump’s malevolence converted into destructive actions. We have seen his lack of empathy converted into callous decisions that will cost thousands of American lives, and millions of lives abroad.
Our imagination cannot encompass the harm to the American people and to the world this malevolent president will wreak in the next four years.
All Republicans, with only a handful of exceptions, have joined the death cult of Donald Trump.
One is reminded of Jim Jones and the 900 cult followers who drank the Kool-Aid in Guyana in 1978, in what became known as the Jonestown massacre-suicide.
The United States liberated Europe from the Nazis in World War II.
It remains to be seen whether Americans will succeed in liberating the country, our democracy, and the world from the heartless actions of a malevolent president and his cult followers.
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James Rowles is a former Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and professor of international law at other universities.
He studied the history of Nazi Germany at Stanford, and has studied and worked on human rights, judicial reform, and access to justice projects in many countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and in Afghanistan and Russia. At Harvard Law School, he taught a course on “Law, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America”.
At the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS, he worked on human rights cases involving forced disappearances, executions, and torture in anumber of authoritarian countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Recent Books by the Author
James P. Rowles, The Rape of American Democracy: Republican Actions and Democratic Failures, 2016-2021 (2024). Available on Amazon, and from IngramSpark by clicking on a link here.
James P. Rowles, Don’t Be Stupid. Pay Attention, Damn It! Advice for Undecided Voters and Voters Leaning Toward Trump (2024). Available on Amazon,and from IngramSpark by clicking on a link here.
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