Resistance clarion call! Donald Trump is a worse narcissist than we ever thought he could be, his cruelty flashbacks to Nazi Germany

Trump is worse this time❗

Echo opinion letter published in the Idaho Statesman in Boise Idaho:

The foundation beneath our feet is shaken by the arrogant, constantly repeated MAGA cult continuing big lies, the daily unchecked power of executive orders that silence agencies, the firing of inspector generals that safeguard power that is misused and the narrow confirmation of a totally unqualified Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense.

We are witnessing the disruption of millions of migrant lives waiting for asylum without discretion as they are hunted in fields, schools, workplaces, and churches. Wielding his now presidential signature to suspend membership to world organizations, Trump has silenced the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) and canceled cancer research, pardoned violent hoodlums that killed capital police officers with blatant disrespect for the rule of law. 

We the people of this nation shudder and dread what is coming. And still, his bloated ego bad-mouths a prayer for mercy at the National Cathedral by Archbishop Mariann Edgar Budde (Episcopal Diocese of Washington).

National Cathedral 

Trump threatens other countries with the extortion of tariffs if they do not cave to his whims. This all in one week. This singular dismantling of our government as we know it. This testing the rule of law. These threats that create chaos, discord and further division. This toxic disregard for the 14th Amendment that ensures birthright citizenship for children born in the United States. This narcissistic grab of unchecked power planned by the unelected personnel like Elon Musk and the ghoul Russel Vaught that created Project 2025. Trump is not making America great again. Instead, his cruelty is putting into play motions that will serve the wealthy and extend power to a few on the backs of the working many❓ 

Unacceptable! Intolerable! Resist! Regroup! Reclaim! Disobey! Do not give up hope! 

From Joye Lisk, in Eagle, Idaho

News media guilty of normalizing psycho Donald Trump and Kamala Harris rises above "Dump Trump"

 Letters to the Editor: Trump is a train wreck. Don’t even try comparing him to Kamala Harris.

Echo opinion letters published in the Los Angeles Times:

Is it possible that the L.A. Times thinks it is supposed to pretend that one of the candidates is not a certifiable crackpot who shouldn’t be allowed to run the country? From Barbara Greyhosky, Los Angeles

Trump campaign ran on no platform at all in 2020, without much of a media press outcry, and this year 2024, he says he disagrees with some of Project 2025, without ever specifying just which parts those are. 

A man who cannot define a tariff is being allowed to skate through another campaign. A man who thinks "asylum seekers" are escapees from insane asylums is a psycho!

Voters are keenly alive to the failures of the (lame stream media❗) press in the last 10 years. Our household already ended one subscription to a national paper when its bias against Biden/Harris became clear, so we would hate to find ourselves in the same position with our hometown Los Angeles Times newspaper.

From Brian Nelson, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles

Vice-President Kamala Harris campaign to Vote Georgia Blue injects optimism with Democrats

ATLANTA, Georgia echo report by Greg Bluestein published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

When Vice President Kamala Harris makes her first visit to Atlanta since she became a presidential candidate, she’ll encounter a political landscape that’s been transformed by President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, just over a week ago.

Key Democrats are no longer despondent about their chances in November against former President Donald Trump. Republicans are promising renewed energy of their own.

And Harris’ visit signals Georgia will be even more hotly contested than expected.

Among those expected to welcome the vice president is Stacey Abrams, who was twice unable to channel enthusiasm and energy around her campaigns for governor into a winning coalition.

And Harris will get a glimpse of the party’s potential reach. Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, one of the most prominent Republicans to endorse Harris, has become a de facto spokesman for disaffected conservatives. He’s scheduled to be on hand during the Harris event.

The visit comes at a pivotal moment in her nascent presidential bid. Social media is exploding with sunny pro-Harris memes, and her campaign coffers are bursting with fresh donations. Aides report thousands of volunteers staffed dozens of Georgia events for Harris this weekend.

But she is also facing escalating attacks from Trump and his allies, along with mounting pressure to pick a running mate before an August 7th deadline.

In Georgia, Harris and her allies must fight to reassemble the fractious coalition of Black voters, independents, suburbanites and frustrated Republicans who propelled Biden’s narrow victory in Georgia in 2020.

And she must balance the tricky task of running for president on her shared record with Biden even while pushing to create her own policy platform that separates from the president’s agenda without conflicting with it.

Democrats are competing for Georgia with a vast campaign apparatus, boasting more than 170 staffers scattered throughout 24 offices. Harris spokesman Michael Tyler calls it the “largest in-state operation of any Democratic presidential campaign cycle ever.”

It’s fueled a guarded optimism that wasn’t there before. Gov. Roy Barnes, the last Democrat to hold Georgia’s highest office, acknowledged what few party leaders would say publicly a few weeks ago: The race in Georgia was tilting decisively toward Trump.

Former Democratic Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, who was doubtful about Democrats' chances of winning Georgia when President Joe Biden was still running for reelection, now says Vice President Kamala Harris has a "fighting chance" of winning the race for the White House. (Hyosub Shin/hshin@ajc.com)

“Initially, because of all the angst, if I were betting that I’d have to say that Trump was going to win,” he said Monday on “Politically Georgia.” Then came Biden’s withdrawal and Republican struggles to blunt what they call the “Harris honeymoon.”

Now, Barnes said he’s confident that Harris has more than a “fighting chance” to keep Georgia in the blue column.

His advice to her strategists: focus on younger Georgians, “quit worrying about angry old white men” and contrast her background as a prosecutor with Trump’s legal troubles.

“Because who’s on the other side? Someone convicted of 34 felonies and still has felony cases pending here in Georgia.”

A presidential ‘pathway’ - #VoteGeorgiaBlue

IMO, Project 2025 is a Republican guide to fascism

Senior Republicans also say Georgia is suddenly more competitive, but for different reasons.

Georgia GOP Chair Josh McKoon has crisscrossed the state for months warning conservatives not to get complacent, and he headlined a weekend event that drew more than 200 volunteers who trained to be poll watchers.

He said Harris’ ascension to the top of the ticket has “narrowed the electoral map considerably” by shifting the focus from the Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to other battlegrounds.

Brad Hughes, from left, Jason Thompson and Josh McKoon, the chair of the Georgia Republican Party, pick up the state's delegate marker during the final day of 2024, Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Republicans came out of the convention feeling good about their chances of regaining the presidency, but McKoon has warned them not to get complacent. (Hyosub Shin / AJC)

More: “While President Biden had a plausible path to victory without Georgia, it seems virtually impossible for a Harris win without our state,” McKoon said. “So I would expect her to campaign in Georgia to try to establish a pathway.”

Polls throughout the past year have largely showed Trump with a lead over Biden, though the few that have been published since Harris became the presumptive nominee indicate the race has tightened.

Brian Robinson, a veteran GOP strategist who was one of then-Gov. Nathan Deal’s chief advisers, said Harris’ success might hinge on a factor that emerged in many of the polls: lagging Democratic support among Black men.

“I’m open-minded until I see data on that, but it’s my hunch this doesn’t move the needle with those voters,” he said. “I think it’s status quo.”

The 30-30 formula: At the center of Harris’ campaign argument in Georgia is support for expanded abortion rights, which she hopes will both galvanize party loyalists and middle-of-the-road voters two years after Trump’s appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court helped reverse Roe v. Wade.

Sonja Adcock, an Oconee County Democratic organizer, said she’s confident Harris will put forward a plan to reinstate abortion protections “so we don’t have to live in fear of basic human rights being taken away every transfer of power from one president to the next.”

She speaks of Harris as many stalwart supporters do — in lofty terms, as a ray of hope who can “turn the tide” against Trump. But veteran Democrats still warn the vice president faces an uphill battle.

Rick Dent was a top adviser to then-Gov. Zell Miller and other party officials, carving out a reputation as an unvarnished truth-teller. He said Democrats would be foolish to grow overconfident by metrics that indicate soaring Black turnout in Georgia.

“The math never changes. It’s the 30-30 rule — the only way a Democrat can win in the state of Georgia,” Dent said.

That rule posits that Democrats must win 30% of the white vote and Black voters must make up at least 30% of the overall turnout for the party to have a solid chance of prevailing.

“You have to energize the African American vote,” Dent said. “But if you don’t hit those thresholds of white voters, you’re not going to win Georgia.”

Harris’ campaign said it’s battling for voters on several fronts and has opened offices in often-overlooked parts of the state, including rural Jenkins and Washington counties.

Tyler, her spokesman, noted that her journey will mark 15 times that Harris has traveled to Georgia since becoming vice president. There will be more visits to come in the next few weeks, he added.

“We know the days ahead will be a marathon at a sprint’s pace,” he said.

Republicans at their lowest and worst are on full display in their extremism party platforms

Echo opinion published in the Idaho Statesman by Rep. Lauren Necochea, chair of the Idaho Democratic Party.

GOP bosses double down on extremist agenda*

“We the People” are the beginning words of the U.S. Constitution. They speak to the guiding principles of our country. Similarly, political parties create platforms to express the values that guide them. The new platform adopted by the Idaho Republican Party should concern all Idahoans. It spells out a deeply dangerous and unpopular agenda that is far out of step with the majority of Idahoans.

The Idaho GOP’s stance on reproductive freedom is particularly alarming. Two years ago, we were shocked that Idaho Republicans endorsed a platform to ban abortion care even when the woman faces death. This year, they went even further by seeking to criminalize in-vitro fertilization.

Trump and the GOP are dangerous❗

The extremism doesn’t end there. The platform opposes funding for education after high school, targeting LAUNCH scholarships, public universities, and community colleges. Additionally, the platform calls for repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which would mean loss of coverage for people with preexisting conditions, young Idahoans who use their parents’ insurance plans, people who rely on tax credits to buy coverage, and others. It calls for costly school voucher schemes when the state isn’t adequately funding our public schools and certainly cannot afford to subsidize a shadow private school system. And it doubles down on absurd ideas like returning to the gold standard, repealing the 17th Amendment to have U.S. senators appointed rather than elected, and privatizing Social Security.

Most startling, the platform opposes any government function not expressly mentioned in the Constitution. This would end subsidies that protect our agricultural sector from ups and downs, Veterans Services, Medicare and Medicaid, libraries, parks, broadband infrastructure in rural areas, and much more.

One may be tempted to ignore this laundry list of dangerous ideas. But with the hardline ideologues running the party, led by the newly reelected chair Dorothy Moon, this isn’t a document that sits on a shelf. Rather, it’s a tool the Idaho GOP uses to intimidate elected officials directly, do an end-run around voters, and even try to prevent certain candidates from running. They have empowered local party bosses to use tribunals and censures when they decide elected Republican lawmakers have strayed from the party platform. In sum, they want elected officials to serve the party, not the voters they are purported to represent.

Idaho's Democrats from every corner of the state will come together to craft our party’s platform. I anticipate it will stand in stark contrast and speak to a vision of shared prosperity for Idahoans where all families can thrive.

We must reject this out-of-touch and harmful agenda at the ballot box this November. By standing together, we can ensure a future that reflects Idahoans’ broadly shared values and aspirations.

P.S. Although it might be easy to lable this Idaho extemism as being unique to one state, BUT...the fact is....Project 2025, supported by the right wing Heritage Foundation, is loaded with the same outrageous rhetoric, craziness spread out in 900 pages❗ #GOPIsDangerous  #VoteBlue