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I'm a software technologist with a political bent. My views tend toward the contrarian and slightly curmudgeonly end of the spectrum.

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Month: September 2016

Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy (Wash Post)

I think this article from the Washington Post pretty much sums it up for me:

Mr. Trump’s politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together. His contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nation’s two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew.

Author Ben SladePosted on September 7, 2016Categories politics

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