by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Donald Trump
Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’ About 50 people gathered this month for a party in the upscale suburb of Westport, then scattered across the region and the world, taking the coronavirus with them. About 50 guests gathered...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 24, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race
Fmr. NSC director calls for Defense Production Act to be implemented Dr. Luciana Borio and Beth Cameron discuss the impact of Trump’s dismantling of the NSC pandemic unit. Cameron served at the NSC under President...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 21, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump
Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done. WASHINGTON – The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 19, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump
NYT: Jared Kushner Advised Trump Media Was Exaggerating Coronavirus Jared Kushner advised President Donald Trump at the start of the global coronavirus outbreak that the media was exaggerating its threat, according to a New York Times report detailing how the White...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 19, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Last Straw Well, it finally isn’t funny anymore – the grandiosity, the ignorance, the cruelty, the bullying, the racism, the petty insults and incessant stupidity. But especially the non-stop lying. The greatest asset that a president can bring to a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 13, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Trump Presidency Is Over To be sure, the president isn’t responsible for either the coronavirus or the disease it causes, COVID-19, and he couldn’t have stopped it from hitting our shores even if he had done everything right. Nor is it the case that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 1, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump
Forget socialism: The threat in 2020 is Trump’s Stalinism Impeached president Donald Trump has learned a lot from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and for someone who has a personality more akin to that of Josef Stalin-the narcissism, paranoia, messiah complex...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 13, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Noam Chomsky: Democratic Party Centrism Risks Handing Election to Trump As the 2020 election race heats up, U.S. politics, the nation’s political culture as a whole, and even the future of organized human life are at a crossroads. Another four years of Donald...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 6, 2020 | • Politics, Critical Thinking, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
The 2020 Disinformation War Deepfakes, anonymous text messages, Potemkin local-news sites, and opposition research on reporters-a field guide to this year’s election and what it could do to the country One day last fall, I sat down to create a new Facebook...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 6, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
A Complete Psychological Analysis of Trump’s Support Whether we want to or not, we must try to understand the Donald Trump phenomenon, as it has completely swept the nation and also fiercely divided it. What is most baffling about it all is Trump’s...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 2, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
So yesterday I saw this in a conversation on friends FaceBook feed… “Democrats should try and find a candidate that can win rather than bitching about a president who is delivering on the campaign promises he made to the people who voted him into office!!...
