James Q. Whitman ...: “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.” Whitman illustrates how German propagandists sought to normalize the Nazi racist agenda domestically by putting forth the United States as a model. They assured the German people that Americans had “racist politics and policies,” just as Germany did, including “special laws directed against the Negroes, which limit their voting rights, freedom of movement, and career possibilities.”...

Trumps lining their pockets: When Donald Trump Jr. spoke to graduates of the American University in Dubai earlier this week, days before his father's trip to the Gulf, he joined the ranks of such distinguished commencement speakers as former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, while raising fresh questions about potential conflicts of interest as he and his brother, Eric Trump, run the Trump Organization while their father is president.

...The Democratic Party is a coalition of interest groups, with some shared views but also a lot of conflicts, and politicians get ahead through their success in striking compromises and finding acceptable solutions.

Sheriff Clarke calls the group “Black Lies Matter,” or “black slime,” railing against its members as dangerous thugs....proposes that the Department of Homeland Security — the department that he has been nominated to serve — assume police-state powers to round up internal enemies..... "charge them with treason"....

...Tuesday’s clash involving protesters and security guards for visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prompted outrage by local and U.S. officials who accused the guards of using violence to quell what had been a peaceful demonstration in Northwest Washington....

.....The information Trump relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said....

Left "hysteria, demonizing, fretting screeds" of Trump over his firing of the FBI director is derided by "somewhere around 40 percent of the country, according to recent polls....'Russiaism is the new Birtherism' ” said Eric Erikson of RedState.

I’m sorry I voted for the son of a bitch, I really am,” said Art Jones, who the Anti-Defamation League identifies as a Holocaust denier who has been dressing in Nazi garb and celebrating Hitler since the 1970s.“ I’m sorry I spent $180 out of my own pocket to buy three big banners that said, ‘President Trump, build the wall’,” the blazer-clad Jones said, to a tent full of about 100 men, some of whom wore paramilitary-style uniforms.

'After the rally touting Trump's 100 days, there will be a press conference touting the rally, followed by a tweet touting the press conference, followed by more rallies, press conferences, and tweets.....Just Trump's rallies, press conferences, tweets and so on about himself with 59 missiles and a big bomb thrown in for effect.'

Offering to pay for some of the Democrats’ priorities would mean relenting on slashing the Environmental Protection Agency or monies for the humanities and arts. Saying that you’ll follow the law to help people afford health insurance isn’t a negotiating tactic. It’s “give us the racist wall or we kill all the poor people.” And it’s not even legal. It’s consistent with Trump’s method of operation, though. Rather than honor a contract, he’ll refuse to pay it until threatened with legal action.

Mr. Trump will not routinely release White House visitor records, as Mr. Obama did. The White House cited “grave national security risks and privacy concerns.” The former is not persuasive, since a national security exception was built into the policy. So Mr. Trump must argue that his right to privacy, or that of the lobbyists coming to see him, outweighs the public’s interest in knowing who is getting an audience.

Justice Department officials to review reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide, saying it was necessary to ensure these pacts do not work against the Trump administration’s goals of promoting officer.....morale while fighting violent crime.

In 2014, Mr. Stockman walked out of Mr. Obama’s State of the Union address in protest. He invited Missouri rodeo clowns who mocked Mr. Obama in a controversial skit to perform in his district. He also sold Obama “barf bags” as a campaign fund-raiser. And in 2013, he took the conservative rocker Ted Nugent, no fan of Mr. Obama, to the president’s State of the Union address as his guest.

Trump/GOP: Letting Internet Service Providers record, track and sell every click and every site you visit on the internet will "more relevant advertisements and innovative business models". ISP's can also sell your complete internet history to any company anywhere to pad their bottom line. Your privacy up for sale. No "opt out". You can turn off trackers, you can delete cookies, you cannot turn off an ISP's tracking and sale of your every click.

HHS Tom Price: Measuring outcomes denies, interferes with doctor patient freedoms! ..Hospitals and physician groups have been counting on support from Medicare - the federal insurance program for the elderly and disabled - to continue driving payment reform policies built into Obamacare that reward doctors and hospitals for providing high quality care at a lower cost.

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, on Friday morning announced that he would not vote for the House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare... He cited one of the last-minute additions to the bill, a provision that would repeal Obamacare's requirement that insurers cover Essential Health Benefits. "it would place significant new costs and barriers to care on my constituents in New Jersey.."

Trump's "economic populism"? What is that, a joke?
What "populism"? A bunch of carnival  barker patter about how "everyone will do well" and "I'm going to take fantastic care of everyone"?

... our president is unabashedly pursuing an ideology based on the national superiority of the United States and the supremacy of ethnically white Christians. He is looking to expel racially inferior people, deny entry to religiously inferior people, and to pursue policies of raw power based on the narrowly defined self-interest of America. Along with this, he intends to spend tens of billions more on weapons. The UN and the State Department operate within norms that diminish the legitimacy of raw nationalism and constrain the raw exercise of power.