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LINK With Trump's Border Policy, America Faces an Identity Crisis | Time

Donny always liked being on the front page of Time Magazine. Thanks Time magazine!

A Reckoning After Trump's Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?
Presidents have many jobs, and one is telling us who we are.

For the first 240 years of U.S. history, at least, our most revered chief executives reliably articulated a set of high-minded, humanist values that bound together a diverse nation by naming what we aspired to: democracy, humanity, equality. The Enlightenment ideals Thomas Jefferson etched onto the Declaration of Independence were given voice by Presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama.

Donald Trump doesn’t talk like that. In the 18 months since his Inauguration, Trump has mentioned “democracy” fewer than 100 times, “equality” only 12 times and “human rights” just 10 times. The tallies, drawn from factba.se, a searchable online agglomeration of 5 million of Trump’s words, contrast with his predecessors’: at the same point in his first term, Ronald Reagan had mentioned equality three times as often in recorded remarks, which included 48 references to human rights, according to the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Lukian 8 June 21
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David & Goliath

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Well written and disheartening, all at once.

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That is great political commentary.

EdEarl Level 8 June 21, 2018
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