The nation is torn apart by factions haranguing their fellow citizens for wrong-headed thinking and transgressions both real and fabricated. The president, emboldened by sycophants, abuses his power, denigrates immigrants and takes on the trappings of a king, even to the point of threatening to throw his critics in jail. “Fake news” ricochets around the landscape. Sound familiar? This is not the United States of America in 2020, it’s the United States in the late 1790s. When Federalists (behind President J … (read more)
