Issues of health [and its insurance] seem pretty paradigmatically Trumpy. After all, Donald Trump's first presidency ended amidst a haze of charges and counter-charges about the Covid epidemic and his handling thereof. His second presidency began after a team-up with the craziest member of the Kennedy clan, who was elevated to the post of Secretary of Health. Also, there is the generally accepted fact that Trump's three nominees to the Supreme Court were generally chosen because they would advance the cause of reversing ROE v. WADE. And of course, they accomplished that mission. Church-state disputes, classic "establishment clause" matters of the sort that once would have been handled under the three-part Lemon test, are also Trumpy, because this is an administration of a more-or-less avowed Christian nationalism. Finally, the issue of due process within the ambit of deportation proceedings is the Trumpiest legal question imaginable. So in this post...
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A few words about Donald Trump. Yes, I despise him, and I think his advance toward the nomination has been a thoroughly depressing spectacle. But that's not what I'm going to say today. Instead, it is this: Trump has spoken thoughts that have long been unspeakable in Republican circles. For example, he has offered some kind words for the work of Planned Parenthood. How shocking! He very heavily qualifies those words as soon as they come out of his mouth, but he says them. Also, Trump has said that we as a nation were bamboozled into a war with Iraq by lies (or falsehoods when he's being polite) about weapons of mass destruction. Nobody else is saying that, in either party really. Yes, Sanders criticizes Mrs Clinton's hawkish votes as Senator, but he has left the WMD thing in the memory hole. I'm glad somebody has pulled it out of there. One more: Trump suggests that the US can and should play a mediator's/deal-makers role in the Israel/Palest...