As the grim reality sinks in that a widely distributed minority of Americans — most of whom, strange as it sounds, identify themselves as ‘values voters’ — have successfully elected a buffoonish, narcissistic megalomaniac as the President of the United States, sane and decent-minded Americans are rallying for a fight.
The latest? After Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globe Awards last night, the Committee to Protect Journalists received almost 700-donations, 695 more than the Sunday average.
Donations are pouring in to the Committee to Protect Journalists after Meryl Streep urged viewers to support the non-profit at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards.
Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement to denounce President-elect Donald Trump for mocking a disabled reporter in 2015. She went on to encourage the audience to support the press in holding Trump accountable “for every outrage.”
Recall, now, The Donald’s anti-First Amendment promise during the campaign to curtail freedom of the press.
During an interview with CBS Miami, Donald Trump said he’d like to change the nature of the First Amendment in order to make it easier to file libel lawsuits against the media.
Trump spoke with Jim DeFede on Sunday, and he was asked about whether he feels that “too much protection” is given to the free press. Trump affirmed his belief on this issue, stating that America should lean towards the United Kingdom’s system for libel because it gives people who sue media agencies “a good chance of winning.”
When we add in the promise to impose a religious test as a condition of admittance to the United States, it becomes clear that Trump isn’t exactly a fan of the Bill of Rights.
And a decisive majority of Americans — YAAAY us! — are not fans of him. It’s just as I keep telling y’all: This is as good as it is ever going to get for Trump; from now forward, as more and more Americans see Trump for what he really is, the tide goes only … out. He cares not a hoot for anything but his own power and aggrandizement, he is a proto-fascist authoritarian, and he will try to bend the country to his self-serving will — and he will lose.