Frank's Musings

C’mon folks. We all give President Trump credit for bearing down on stubborn international adversaries to get them to temper their conflicts. We must also concede, for some of us begrudgingly, that federal programs beneficial to the public at large will sometimes be better administered by state or municipal bureaucracies.

But the shameless indignities displayed by the Trump administration and outlined by Michelle Goldberg in the 10/20/2025 New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/opinion/trump-degredations-maga.html?searchResultPosition=1) are insulting to all of us Americans. Not only does the president himself engage arrogantly in scurrilously demeaning his political enemies, but he also blithely expects his supporters to accept his self-serving manner of running our government’s affairs. 

There must be a reason his yes-men and women acolytes, with whom he has loaded his cabinet and other senior administrations positions, are sacrificing their future credibility by participating in Trump’s megalomaniacal fantasy.   Maybe they anticipate joining a subsequent fascistic U.S. regime.  They may have been promised a guaranteed (even escrowed) financial bounty that assures them a comfortable retreat when a semblance of liberal democracy is restored to America.