This is an OpEd
STEPHEN LENDMAN
A mericans need shoving to take to the streets and protest for or against anything or anyone. It doesn’t happen spontaneously.
With few exceptions at most, various groups from activists to anarchists aren’t behind anti-Trump protests. Nor were women turning out in large numbers nationwide and abroad.
Dark forces in Washington, corporate boardrooms and other centers of power manipulated Americans to turn out in large numbers, before, during and after Trump’s inauguration – part of a plot to delegitimize and undermine him. It began to prevent his nomination, later based on the phony pretext of Russian US election hacking, along with sure-thing Hillary’s convincing loss and political demise. Anyone knowing anything about her high crimes and evil intent should be dancing in the streets – not engaged in anti-Trump protests, in some cases smashing windows, committing other forms of vandalism and making damn fools of themselves for the wrong reasons.
Is WMD lying so quickly forgotten, and numerous other dirty tricks like it going back endlessly in time, all with the same common denominator – deep state deception, manipulating public opinion to go along with what demands denunciation. Countless thousands of women turning out across America thinking Hillary represents them, not Trump, likely think fantasy democracy in America is real, a model for other countries to emulate – astonishing given so much evidence disproving them.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
I can’t believe that TGP is casting off its progressive credentials and publishing op eds that support Trump. Having been an editor for TGP at one time, I’m embarrassed by articles like the one above. To give support to and try to diminish Trump’s fascism shows a sea change at TGP. I’m not sure I trust TGP any longer and may extricate from TGP and it’s new direction right.
We regret your decision, but you are quite wrong in calling our course “right wing”. All we are doing is hewing a difficult line which recommends authentic progressive courses of action instead of hysterical, knee-jerk attacks on Trump on an indiscriminate fashion. Trump must be opposed not on the basis of pseudo analysis advanced by the likes of Rachel Maddow or Robert Kuttner, two corporatist Democratic party shills. Trump must be opposed with eyes open and on the basis of specific policies. Once mobilization begins against such, we believe such popular response MUST NOT BE captured by the Democrats and… Read more »
The author did not advocate Trump, the article clearly states that a false , manipulative expectation is broadcast by the dupes of liberalism. To challenge this is not to support Trump, rather it is to highlight the fuzzy, knee-jerk Pavlovian response which is being passed off as progressive thinking by the street walkers of the existing order.