A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Two days after 20-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr. killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured 19 others when his Dodge Challenger deliberately hit a group of counter-protesters who were leaving a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia., President Donald J. Trump finally spoke out against the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups.  "I just met with FBI director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions," Trump said. "The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car attack that killed one innocent American, and wounded twenty others. To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered." Trump added, "As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence – it has no place in America. And as I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin...

President Donald J. Trump has been in the White House for nearly three months now, and after setting a historical record for being the least popular incoming Chief Executive, he now holds another - he is the least popular occupant of the White House at a relatively early point in his Administration. According to the latest Gallup poll,  only 42% of Americans approve of the President's on-the-job performance. No other President in modern times, including Richard M. Nixon or George W. Bush, has ever begun his term in office with such low approval ratings. Though his supporters insist that the Twitterer-in-Chief can make America great again if those pesky liberals ("libtards" or "snowflakes") will just stop protesting and let him and Stephen K. Bannon turn America into a right-wing authoritarian state, most of us think that Mr. Trump is doing the opposite. Take, for instance, the President's "America First" budget. According to a report by...