Another superb FRDH, Michael. One of the strangest aspects for me about the current madness, is the shock of not being able to turn to the feds for help in a time of true threat to the nation because this time the threat is coming from inside the White House and this time the White House is running the FBI, purging it of its most effective antiterrorists and diverting the Bureau from the expanding menace of heavily armed white supremacists, as well as growing Russian, Chinese and Iranian spy threats. Trump now believes his own lies that the greatest threat to America is from liberals inside the country. This really needs fact checking and Trump‘s, “enemy within, “declaration is a fever dream that is nevertheless dangerous to our nation’s stability.
As always the one thing looking back at the piece after deadline is failing to find a way to trace the thread from McCarthy's lawyer Roy Cohn to Cohn's most avid acolyte D J Trump (with a jokey aside about his other lawyer Bobby K Sr and his insane son Bobby jJr. ) All that off-hand "radical left communist" democrats shit Trump spins is part of the Roy Cohn, red-scare witch hunt play book.
Very much part of my pre-teen years was sensing my dad's nervousness over HUAC; would they learn that he'd attended a meeting or two, thinking Capitalism was dead in the early 30s, looking for alternatives; would they know of his support for anti-Franco forces in the late 30s? Would he lose his family's source of income, by having his security clearance revoked at Lockheed?
And an unrelated 2nd comment: the intimacy of your relationship with Shawkat was lovely, as you looked at his children and hoped, someday, for one of your own; as you admired his courage and intelligence, his writing to encourage resistance against Saddam. And your other book on Napoleon and the opening of the ghettos, which I've recommended to both our SILs, as both have grandfathers that escaped the pogroms of Ukraine. Do keep it up, your counseling us about ways to resist!
Another superb FRDH, Michael. One of the strangest aspects for me about the current madness, is the shock of not being able to turn to the feds for help in a time of true threat to the nation because this time the threat is coming from inside the White House and this time the White House is running the FBI, purging it of its most effective antiterrorists and diverting the Bureau from the expanding menace of heavily armed white supremacists, as well as growing Russian, Chinese and Iranian spy threats. Trump now believes his own lies that the greatest threat to America is from liberals inside the country. This really needs fact checking and Trump‘s, “enemy within, “declaration is a fever dream that is nevertheless dangerous to our nation’s stability.
As always the one thing looking back at the piece after deadline is failing to find a way to trace the thread from McCarthy's lawyer Roy Cohn to Cohn's most avid acolyte D J Trump (with a jokey aside about his other lawyer Bobby K Sr and his insane son Bobby jJr. ) All that off-hand "radical left communist" democrats shit Trump spins is part of the Roy Cohn, red-scare witch hunt play book.
It was Cohn who taught young DJT, “Never apologize. Always attack!”
Very much part of my pre-teen years was sensing my dad's nervousness over HUAC; would they learn that he'd attended a meeting or two, thinking Capitalism was dead in the early 30s, looking for alternatives; would they know of his support for anti-Franco forces in the late 30s? Would he lose his family's source of income, by having his security clearance revoked at Lockheed?
And an unrelated 2nd comment: the intimacy of your relationship with Shawkat was lovely, as you looked at his children and hoped, someday, for one of your own; as you admired his courage and intelligence, his writing to encourage resistance against Saddam. And your other book on Napoleon and the opening of the ghettos, which I've recommended to both our SILs, as both have grandfathers that escaped the pogroms of Ukraine. Do keep it up, your counseling us about ways to resist!
Your note encourages me to keep going
Painful to read but important know.