It's First Tuesday (Jan. 24) for President Trump -- and the news wires and social media are thrumming with stories about, well, just how the new president is set on doing everything the campaigning candidate said he was going to do.
For the most part, you've got to be impressed so far with the response of the media, which didn't exactly win friends with the way in which it influenced people during the US Election 2016. As in, never in modern US history have so many mainstream news names endorsed a single person for president: and no, it wasn't Donald Trump.
So, when it comes to the dissenters, we need fresh voices. (I'm looking at you Bill Maher, whose MAKE AMERICA SANE AGAIN slogan is as fresh as bin lettuce.)
Like the current Village Voice. Two must-read pieces appeared in the most recent Voice, one by Joy Connolly that likens the prospects for the current presidency to the last days of the Roman republic http://bit.ly/2jWjeIp and the second by the novelist and intellectual Aleksandar Hemon http://bit.ly/2jZCDc3.
The theme? Wanted: New Ideas. It's going to be a helluva ride, and we need new ideas and fresh approaches to dissent to keep it real.
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