A Writer’s Blog

  • Paul Waldman Remembers When Republicans Thought Trump Was a Charlatan and a Kook

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected.   On Friday, the president of the United States called in to the daily festival of idiocy that is “Fox & Friends,” where he blathered… Read more

  • 33 Writers: Please Stop Using Term “Quid Pro Quo”

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This letter appeared in the New York Times on ? To the Editor: A plea from 33 writers: Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand. Please stop using the Latin phrase “quid pro quo” regarding the impeachment inquiry. Most people don’t understand what it means, and… Read more

  • Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton Would Support Impeachment

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Ron Chernow, author of Hamilton, wrote in the Washington Post that Trump is the populist demagogue that Alexander Hamilton feared and warned about in The Federalist Papers. He wrote: There seems little doubt, given his writings on the presidency, that Hamilton would have been aghast at Trump’s behavior and… Read more

  • Teresa Hanafin on Trump’s Stonewalling of Impeachment Inquiry

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Teresa Hanafin writes the daily Fast Forward for the Boston Globe. ? As he did with the Vietnam War, Trump has decided to sit out the House impeachment inquiry, using what constitutional experts say are bone spurs spurious arguments to claim that Democratic House leaders are conducting an illegitimate… Read more

  • Trump’s Roy Cohn Defense: Deny, Attack, Attack Again

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:   James Hohmann of the Washington Post yesterday  described Trump’s defense when his hand was caught in cookie jar in broad daylight: The president is running the smashmouth playbook he learned from Roy Cohn, his mentor and Joe McCarthy’s hatchet man. It’s worked repeatedly for Trump, from fighting the… Read more

  • George Conway III and Neal Cathay: Ukraine Seals the Case for Imprachment

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? George Conway III and Neal Catyal are lawyers. Conway is married to Kellyanne Conway; Catyal is a former Acting Solicitor General of the United States. This article appeared in the Washington Post.  Among the most delicate choices the framers made in drafting the Constitution was how to deal… Read more