Yes, we need to decipher what makes our country unique as well as all the things about our history that are like the histories of every other country. To assume our superiority is to blind us to our faults and prevent needed reforms.
Yes, we need to decipher what makes our country unique as well as all the things about our history that are like the histories of every other country. To assume our superiority is to blind us to our faults and prevent needed reforms.
The picture of a m*****a man holding the severed heads of his "enemies" hearkens back to earlier times when such violence was commonplace. Though I'm sure the artist was thinking in allegorical terms, the suggestiveness of the image is meant to intimidate, inflame, and to glorify force over rational dialogue. Rational dialogue is one thing the Founding Fathers promoted as an alternative to tyranny.
Wh**ever mistakes former presidents made (and they all made them), Trump takes the cake. He is not made of the stuff that leaders of a democracy need to have.