The Progressive POPULIST


A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland

March 15, 2017 -- Volume 23, Number 5


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Joseph Erbentraut p. 1
Farmers rethink support for Trump

EDITORIAL p. 2
Trump: evil or incompetent?

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Hallelujah, Trump rushes to aid needy bankers!
It’s time to put food policy back on the table.
WILL DURST p. 3
The Trumpish cabinet
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DONALD ROLLINS p. 4
Medicare ‘reform’ versus Populist tradition

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Profits in prison

DISPATCHES p. 5
California weighs single-payer health bill;
Trump truth found wanting at Florida rally;
Newt’s time bomb claims Obama’s regs;
Reality setting in on Obamacare;
Trump’s first-month travel expenses cost more than Obama’s annual costs ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Carbon tax a truly good idea
RAÚL M. GRIJALVA p. 6
People have power when they speak together
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
American Hellscape

GENE LYONS p. 7
Flynn drama has all the intrigue of a Russian spy thriller
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Subpoena Trump; Put him under oath

SARAH ANDERSON p. 7
To save Main Street, tax Wall Street

KENT PATERSON p. 8
Mexico’s stormy winter of 2017

RICHARD ESKOW p. 9
Steve Mnuchin is no Joe Kennedy and he’s unfit for his new gig
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 9
Michael Flynn scandal shatters GOP dream of protecting Trump in ‘alternative fact’ cocoon
HAL CROWTHER p. 10
An inoperable tumor

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Taking care of refugees is a moral duty
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The trouble with trade: People understand it
MARK WEISBROT p. 11
NAFTA has harmed Mexico a lot more than any wall could do
BOB CESCA p. 12
Republicans aren’t just spreading lies of widespread voter fraud to boost Trump’s ego.
Phony claims hold key to GOP hegemony
JAMIE STIEHM p. 12
The sisterhood stands against Trump
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
As White House spirals into crisis, what will Congress do?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump’s war on the courts, press and states
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Civil rights will suffer under sessions
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Trump’s war on EPA
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Trump’s immigration policy leads to war

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Deflecting the Trumpercar

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Does intelligence have a future?

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 15
Is Judge Neil Gorsuch a closet liberal?

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Jingoism as foreign policy

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Courts and Constitution as saviors?

LEO GERARD p. 16
Off-shorers should shut up
JUAN COLE p. 17
Questions about judgment: Trump appointed Flynn in the first place
DANA MILBANK p. 18
Here’s how you can deal with Trump
DOMENICA GHANEM p. 18
Get to know your Muslim neighbors
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Rethinking infrastructure
RALPH NADER p. 19
Citizens getting justice done
TED RALL p. 19
How I’ll know it’s time to flee Trump’s America
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 20
Trump administration’s other war on media
ROSIE SORENSON p. 20
That’s a fact, Jack

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Police stories

MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Do not resist’: the post-9/11 iron heel of the state

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why Michael Bennett walked away from NFL’s Israel delegation
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Movements matter as Andrew Puzder and Michael Flynn are forced out
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
This is ‘the problem we all live with’
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
A very special man, an amazing occasion
MARC MUNROE DION p. 23
Donald Trump’s ghost dance

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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