Trump continues to fire, intimidate, gag the "best and brightest across the board; legal,military, FBI,etc. What are these sidelined folks talking about among themselves? One can only hope there will be counter efforts (covert) that may counter the destruction. Trump is surrounded by incompetent crazies, power hungry yes, but not so bright. If anything takes down this president and his ilk, it will be rank stupidity. The amount of brain power trump has already let go is a shocking indication he…

Until the SUN eventually expands to envelop the Earth (and maybe longer)...

...America will be known as the nation that looked at Trump and saw something they liked.

...America will be known as the nation that looked at Trump, and saw themselves.

The problem, as Reich states, is that "there is no fire" in a base which varies so widely in terms of policy. We agree on democracy, yes, but on little else. So far, the D'a have refused to seek a message which is truly populist like Trump's (Bernie Sanders) and continues to play "to the middle" which in reality (as Reich says) no longer exists. If the D Party refuses to listen to its populist base (tax the rich, reign in monopolies, reform bank policy, use govt to help the middle class/poor) i…