[John Isbell]

Former CIA chief to Trump on McCabe firing: 'America will triumph over you'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former CIA Director John Brennan responded Saturday to President Donald Trump's tweet about the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, calling the President "a disgraced demagogue."
"When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America ... America will triumph over you," Brennan tweeted.

Cheers,
John

[Jim Moonan]

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Halleluiah! In today’s NYT OpEd section, David Brooks wrote a piece about the wisdom of Walt Whitman on the subject of American democracy. (It has one of the best opening lines of an oped piece I've ever read.) HERE it is. A whole column about a poet and the intrinsic worth of artists and writers. Halleluiah!

Predictably, in the comments section, the response to the essay is mixed and full of skepticism. I found this comment to be most helpful:

“America has some housekeeping chores before ideals have any chance. A clue: Listen to the words of our Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan in his anthem ‘When The Ship Comes In.’"

This Whitman vision of democratic ideals should be expanded into a curriculum that is taught in every school as fundamental civics. Somebody please write that curriculum. I'd be happy to help in my time left.
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