Richard J. Rosendall

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Weakness in a President is Deadly

Here’s a Democratic campaign ad for you: show Trump speaking at a rally to a stadium full of people who gradually disappear and their cheers die away. Weakness in a president is deadly. The day after Donald Trump suggested injecting disinfectant and using ultraviolet light inside people’s bodies as treatments for COVID-19 during his daily improv routine in the White House briefing room, which resulted in a viral video of Dr. Deborah Birx struggling to compose herself, he walked it back and blamed the press. “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen.” No you weren’t, […]

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Rising to Our Moment Against Trump’s Madness

When most of us launch into a new morning it is nothing like storming Normandy Beach on D-Day. Most of us are not being shot, deported, jailed, evicted, or starved. Whatever brutal measures Trump and his minions have in mind, most of our freedoms have not yet been blotted out by a fascist state. We still have our voices and our power to act. It is for us to use them. Some say we’re letting Trump distract us from the harm he’s doing. Really? We can’t multitask? What is he up to that we’re missing? Lining his pockets? Packing the courts? […]