Meredith ap Robert

Tag: Donald Trump

  • When do we stop seeing this as an aberration?

    Today, as the United States inches closer toward forcible regime change in Venezuela, I wonder what any of this is for. What’s on the other side of this madness? How long do we insist “this is not who we are” until accepting evidence to the contrary?

  • Americans are the frog in the pot: The Obama years, and what could have been

    It’s hard to believe that twenty years have come and gone since Barack Obama burst onto the national scene. It’s been twenty-one years, actually, since Obama’s speech at the 2004 DNC. This was the rousing speech that effectively introduced Barack Obama, “a skinny kid with a funny name,” and his audacious hope.

  • Toronto Pearson, Terminal 3, the A Gates

    Toronto Pearson, Terminal 3, the A Gates

    In an airport that welcomes 50 million people every year, I’ve found a quiet corner. Tables empty. Outlets free. Plenty of seats at the bar. Just workless workers and captains of industry, keeping one another company in a world that’s waiting, between resignation and rebellion, for whatever’s next.

  • Democrats: Stop Talking Down to Voters

    Democrats: Stop Talking Down to Voters

    Well, here we are folks. Another Trump presidency. What has surprised me, and I think many, isn’t necessarily that Trump won, but that it wasn’t even close.  The numbers still aren’t final, but it looks like Kamala Harris got about 10 million fewer votes than Joe Biden in 2020, whereas Donald Trump has slightly surpassed…