If You Ask Me

Being an “elder statesman” used to be something of a distinction but in today’s political world, there doesn’t seem to be any other kind. Though there are more elders than statesmen.

Three weeks before the 1980 presidential election, Republican Ronald Reagan promised to make history by appointing the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

When I wrote a column for my college paper back when talking pictures were relatively new, I went to a movie on campus where members of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity had instructed their pledges to make their presence known by setting off alarm clocks during the film.

I was a six-year-old first grader when the Robert Fulton Elementary School in North Bergen, New Jersey, held its first air raid drill in late 1939 or maybe early 1940.

Our two, not-so-great political parties are stumbling and fumbling their way to the the 2022 and 2024 congressional and presidential elections because of the antics — to use a kind word — of their respective extremist wings.

A discourse is defined as “a serious discussion of a particular subject” or “a formal and orderly expression of thought on a subject.”   

Connecticut is awfully kind to incumbent governors. If they choose to run, they almost always win.   

It wasn’t always that way as different times and conditions inspired different results.

First, he lied to us — repeatedly — and then he betrayed us.

And that is how history will remember Donald Trump and his presidency.