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Now I think you are just playing with me.

 

Trump to award Medal of Freedom to allies Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes

 

All Info - H.R.6810 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): To affirm the power of the President to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Bill Cosby and to provide for criminal penalties for anyone who wears or publicly displays a Presidential Medal of Freedom that has been revoked.

 

How big of him. As I recall, Reagan also took an oath at some point. Of course, he suffered no real consequences for Iran-Contra.

 

My comment was strictly limited to the matter at hand!

 

Maybe. They'll. Die.

 

I like checking out the books that are often in the background of remote interviews on CNN, etc. Last night Preetinder Bharara was on CNN or MSNBC (I forget) and Robert Caro's series on LBJ, and his The Power Broker bio of Robert Moses, were front and center.

Great reading. Instead cred.

 

I got on the air exactly that way once. They were giving away a new Trans-Am. "Hi, what's your name? I hate to have to say this, but you're number eight, and you needed to be ninth..."

 

I think it's bigger than Reagan and dates back to Vietnam. My thesis in a paragraph:

For the many stories about how Vietnam was a reformation of American society, particularly in how it dealt with authority and the military, I think a counter-reformation developed of people that were determined to re-establish a pre-Vietnam "Real America". What Reagan did was give them power for the first time and an economic agenda. From Reagan forward, the concept that taxation was theft and regulation was punishment was created, weaponized by Newt Gingrich et al, and Trump has allowed the two to bifurcate again as he simply painted it over his fat body. I would argue that Paul Ryan is the endpoint of 20th century American conservatism: a dependence upon a doctrine that doesn't work and is too difficult for the layman to understand, whereas Trump is the endpoint of that Vietnam-era counterreformation: A belief that America can do no wrong regardless of its leaders and decisions. The only commonality they still have is that the only person whose welfare matters is you.