Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

To the editor:

Goldberg is right—the president is supposed to “preside” over a country that is basically in disunity and faithfully execute the law. The current president does neither, and because the Republicans have fallen into lockstep behind him, he “presides” only over his own narcissistic, authoritarian whims with impunity.

This country stands little chance of ever again unifying over anything. I have never seen us so polarized. I truly fear for our democracy.

To echo Benjamin Franklin, we have a republic if we can keep it, but I honestly don’t think we can.

Rebecca Hertsgaard, Palm Desert

When Lisa Page, the lover of Peter Strzok, talks about being “crushed”, and how innocent she is, ask her to read Peter’s “Insurance Policy” text, to her, just in case Hillary loses. Also, why were the lovers text messages scrubbed after he left Mueller. Where are they Lisa?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2019

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Don't scrap everything! See what you can salvage.

From Leslie Stephen's biography of his brother, James Fitzjames Stephen. Click to enlarge.

As I watch the House impeachment inquiry hearings, I can’t help but remember the hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Watergate in 1973. I wonder how those events would have played out if Donald Trump rather than Richard Nixon were president back then. If Trump were in the Oval Office, we would never have heard Alexander Butterfield describe the secret taping machine the president employed. We would have never have heard John Dean tell the American people that there was a cancer on the presidency. We would never have seen Jeb Magruder contritely admit that he had put personal ambition above service to his country. Other members of the Nixon administration like Chuck Colson, John Mitchell, Bob Halderman, and John Ehrlichman would never have been called to account before the American public for their role in the Watergate scandal or cover-up. If the president had acted like Trump, he would have invoked executive privilege and all of the above persons would have refused to testify before the committee. Nixon would have continued as president while calling the whole process nothing more than a partisan attack, as he did after he left office. And America as a country, and its political institutions, would have been lesser for it.

Sam Kafrissen

Note from KBJ: Is there some point to this letter, Sam, or are you just expressing your hatred for President Trump?

….in America, community by community where we will eradicate AIDS in 10 years, program already started. American leadership has proven that together we can save lives.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2019

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