A Trojan horse

by David Leslie, Corvallis

I think we got sold a bill of goods in November, a Trojan horse, if you will, a strategic tactic built upon deceit… a hidden coup disguised as a MAGA agenda.

Last summer I talked to lots of Bitterrooters at the DEM booth at the Hamilton Farmers Market. I heard much about the border, inflation and the price of eggs. What I did not hear was interest in acquiring Greenland, Canada or the Panama Canal. Nor did I hear a peep about “unitary executive” theory.

So here we are, a little over a month into the Trump 2.0 administration. Here’s what I notice:

• Lowering prices and inflation was quickly deemed too hard and “not my fault.”

• Troops have been sent to the southern border but no work on immigration policy has begun.

• Extra-legal impoundment and civil service firing has begun without any serious cost-benefit analysis. And here in the valley too!

• All action is being undertaken by executive orders, suggesting they would not be accepted legislatively.

President Trump and his administration have all but ignored the topics on which he campaigned and seventy plus million people voted for him.

It is looking likely to me that “what we were sold” was an imperialist dictator, meaning a president above the law, superior to the Congress and Constitution and uninterested in the opinion of voters.

Time and truth may prove me wrong; so be it. But in the interim, I recommend we all stay very watchful. If my fears come true, it will take all of us together to stop it.