At the end of Trump's first term, I was asked to say something good about him. I replied, "At least he didn't blow up the world." That is no longer the case.
As a Canadian, rest assured that we don't hate Americans even though 90% of us don't want to be one.
I meant the legal, constitutional system and rule of law we have had up till now. Bets are off when there's a chance the current head of state could invoke the Insurrection Act and send US military onto our streets. Not to mention everything else over the last 10 weeks. Never perfect but in the past often something of a model, don't you think?
I suppose the fact that JUDGES are elected, in some states but not all, brings the system into question. But our constitution seems to have admirmers around the world.
Longtime UK friend and colleague Richard Charkin writes that he is increasing his book prices in response to the tariffs https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7314202407775735808/. An understandable response. All this American can say is 'I'm sorry and godspeed.' We'll all be scrambling, in every industry, to set new prices - but is there any still point to start from? I imagine we'll be seeing some announcement from Ingram, and printers. One correction: I don't see the advisers around the current president as being restrained: some of them are zealots and the rest wouldn't know a strategic thought if one flew by.
I suspect that people may view the US judicial system as far too open to political manipulation, and has show itself to be racially biased.
At the end of Trump's first term, I was asked to say something good about him. I replied, "At least he didn't blow up the world." That is no longer the case.
As a Canadian, rest assured that we don't hate Americans even though 90% of us don't want to be one.
Are you sure that the legal system, at least as recently practiced, is widely admired?
I meant the legal, constitutional system and rule of law we have had up till now. Bets are off when there's a chance the current head of state could invoke the Insurrection Act and send US military onto our streets. Not to mention everything else over the last 10 weeks. Never perfect but in the past often something of a model, don't you think?
I suppose the fact that JUDGES are elected, in some states but not all, brings the system into question. But our constitution seems to have admirmers around the world.
Longtime UK friend and colleague Richard Charkin writes that he is increasing his book prices in response to the tariffs https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7314202407775735808/. An understandable response. All this American can say is 'I'm sorry and godspeed.' We'll all be scrambling, in every industry, to set new prices - but is there any still point to start from? I imagine we'll be seeing some announcement from Ingram, and printers. One correction: I don't see the advisers around the current president as being restrained: some of them are zealots and the rest wouldn't know a strategic thought if one flew by.