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How Is This Insanity Possible?

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Nancy Blodgett Klein
Jul 16, 2025
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“I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in this country’s history.”

— Donald Trump on Truth Social today

Among the many Substack political columnists I follow (

Robert B. Hubbell
,
Heather Cox Richardson
,
Robert Reich
,
Steven Beschloss
,
Joyce Vance
,
Jess Piper
,
Mark Mansour
,
Jay Kuo
,
Arturo Dominguez
and
Jeff Tiedrich
, among others), I know they have done a great job covering the many unconscionable and unconstitutional actions Trump has taken since taking office in January 2025. They have covered the lies, the incoherence, the stupidity, the cruelty, the corruption and the illegality quite well.

Jeff Tiedrich, in particular, can make me laugh out loud when I read his hilarious descriptions about Trump's latest crazy antics. Here’s what he said about the Trump post I am writing about. “Oh look at this double-fuckload of incoherent batshit that Captain Crazypants posted to his crappy app.” 😜

As a result of these writers’ awesome work, I have rarely written about Trump these last few months despite his ongoing efforts to create a fascist dictatorship in my beloved homeland. Today, however, after rea…

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