America

Democracy Struggles To Recover From Betrayal

Paul Craig Roberts

First announcements. Then content.

I don’t have anything to say about this e-mail that came in, but I think there’s a lot of grist for the comment mill in it, and wanted to share it with you:

On Saturday, Donald Trump made the rounds in Arizona, rallying supporters with his trademark, off-the-cuff stump speech.

As reported last night, something surreal happened at Trump's Saturday rally in Arizona: a man who, as part of a group that had donned KKK attire and was occasionally giving out Nazi salutes in attempts to mock and provoke Trump supporters, did just that when he was punched and kicked by none other than a black man while being escorted out of the building. The moment was captured on the photo below which will surely become part of the 2016 presidential race archive.

Who is the protester?

It’s likely that many who aren’t fond of the prospect that Donald Trump could actually be the next President of The United States couldn’t have imagined a world just a year ago where (former leader of the KKK and famous white supremacist) David Duke suggested that Donald Trump is doing good things for Adolph Hitler’s image… but, alas, like many things people couldn’t have imagined a year ago, according to a recent Vanity Fair piece, exactly that has happened: Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and Louisiana state senator, speculated on his radio showTuesday that comparisons between th