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As our national civics lesson continues to unfold on its march toward our 59th Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2021 and Donald Trump’s second term, 45’s unmasking exercise (that’s a large part of what his first term had to be) continues toward its big climax.
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In his 2017 Inaugural Address, President Trump proclaimed on behalf of his administration, “we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.”
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From my very biased vantage point, here’s how I like to think of that sentence.
It likely was the announcement of his two-pronged military campaign.
The first prong is obvious; it’s against foreign interference.
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As we now clearly see, nothing short of a military campaign would suffice when global influencers have totally co-opted elements of our two major political parties.
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The other prong has an internal focus: Washington, D.C.