Copyright © 2016 - 2021, The Troy Press
Copyright © 2016 - 2021, The Troy Press
Copyright © 2016 - 2021, The Troy Press
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Trump appointed a white nationalist, Steve Bannon, as chief White House strategist - which was promptly celebrated by the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. Bannon and other possible extremist Trump appointees, such as John Bolton, a neocon who believes the U.S. should "bomb Iran," and the authoritarian Rudy Giuliani, are now receiving much deserved public scrutiny.
The incoming vice president, Mike Pence, has not elicited the same reaction, instead often painted as the reasonable adult on the ticket, a "counterbalance" to Trump and a "bridge to the establishment." However, there is every reason to regard him as, if anything, even more terrifying than the president-elect.
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At least sixty-nine demonstrators either didn't turn in a ballot or weren't registered to vote in the state. KGW compiled a list of the 112 people arrested by the Portland Police Bureau during recent protests. Those names and ages, provided by police, were then compared to state voter logs by Multnomah County Elections officials.
Records show 34 of the protesters arrested didn't return a ballot for the November 8 election. Thirty-five of the demonstrators taken into custody weren't registered to vote in Oregon. Twenty-five protesters who were arrested did vote. KGW is still working to verify voting records for the remaining 17 protesters who were arrested.
In other words over 60% of the arrested protesters in Portland were not local voters dismayed by the election of Donald Trump.
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And so - just as in Ferguson and Charlotte - we see what appears to be professional agitators popping up at key times to encourage social unrest (which as we recently detailed were funded from George Soros' MoveOn.org), all of which perhaps explains why these 'professionals' were so adamant not be filmed or 'caught on tape' as GatewayPundit reports, reporters in Portland, Oregon were attacked by anti-Trump rioters Sunday night, according to Portland Police. The protesters also handed out leaflets warning people to not record the riots.
Muncie, IN was once the subject of an investigative study decades ago in a book called 'Middletown'. Guardian reporter, gary younge, went back to Muncie in the same spirit to try to explain the 2016 election. He spent a month in the town and this is one of a series of reports (and, honestly, the only one I have read... so far)
It is a long article, but younge is a gifted writer/journalist and I found it fascinating. He looks just how/why people with so little, with no hope, would vote for an east coast millionaire, and why the same trend is happening globally (that is, the rise of right-wing populism). He also contrasts it with left wing populism with this gem of a sentence:
"The case for solidarity requires more effort and empathy than the case for scapegoating"
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Economists who specialize in antitrust - affiliated with Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, the University of California, Berkeley, and other prestigious universities - reshaped their field through scholarly work showing that mergers create efficiencies of scale that benefit consumers. But they reap their most lucrative paydays by lending their academic authority to mergers their corporate clients propose. Corporate lawyers hire them from Compass Lexecon and half a dozen other firms to sway the government by documenting that a merger won't be "anti-competitive": in other words, that it won't raise retail prices, stifle innovation, or restrict product offerings. Their optimistic forecasts, though, often turn out to be wrong, and the mergers they champion may be hurting the economy.
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