Untied Tongue: Trump Speaks American Ugly With A French Accent
Democrats Troll Flint: Misery Serves As A Political Backdrop
Donald
Trump, the frontrunner among Republican candidates in the 2016
presidential race, has an admirer in Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the
far-right, trenchantly racist National Front party in France. Gilbert
Mercier, editor in chief of News Junkie Post, draws parallels between
the ascendancy and growing appeal of Trump and that of LePen.
At the urging of Hillary Clinton, Sunday
night’s CNN-hosted Democratic “debate” with fellow contender Bernie
Sanders was held in the beleaguered city of Flint, Michigan, which
remains mired in a public-health disaster as the city concedes
responsibility for exposing tens of thousands of residents to lead
poisoning and bacterial infections from its water system. Abayomi
Azikiwe, a Detroit organizer for the Workers World Party and editor in chief of the Pan-African
Newswire, says Flint served as a convenient political backdrop, but
substantive issues affecting its residents went missing.