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CLR Show 1936. Air Date June 4, 2024. Yes, Donald will continue to prove his incompetence every time he approaches a microphone. He will prove his ineligibility to serve every time a newscaster recites his litany of crimes, prosecuted and and un-prosecuted. He will reveal his disdain for the constitution and his willingness to destroy the fabric of American democracy on countless occasions. He will be sentenced to incarceration and/or house arrest and attempt to wear it as a bizarre badge of honor. As insane as it sounds, none of this can outright prevent him from winning the 2024 presidential election. Only his resounding defeat at the ballot box can do that. And that will take dedication and commitment on the part of every democrat in the nation, no matter what other grievances you might harbor. Period.   

CLR Show 1935. Air Date May 31, 2024. The headlines that Trump and the republican power brokers have dreaded seeing are finally on every newspaper and internet site on the planet: 'Trump Guilty On All Counts'. And he'll probably be given jail time. Donald is acting as though he can simply blow past it all. But the leadership knows better. Rather than the coattails on which all will glide into a new era of republican power, Donald is the millstone that will sink the entire party for several generations. Do not imagine for a moment, no matter what you read or hear, and especially from Donald himself, that the republican power brokers will fall on their swords to express fealty to Donald. There will be a very interesting Republican National Convention beginning on July 14th. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach. 

CLR Show 1934. Air Date May 28, 2024. Whether or not Donald is convicted this week, the irrational emotions and grievances of the base will be stoked all the more. Whether or not he is incarcerated or loses in November, it won't matter. It will all be seen as further proof of the unavoidability of us versus them and a clarion call to fight to the bitter end to defeat 'them'. And if, God forbid, Donald were to win in November, there is no clear vision of what a victory would mean, except an evisceration and reconstruction of all tools of government to suit Donald's personal purposes. And after that... We need a leader who can begin the process of reuniting the country under the aegis of true patriotism. And it will be a slow painful process––at best. 

CLR Show 1933. Air Date May 24, 2024.  Justice Samuel Alito has flown insurrectionist flags over his main and vacation homes. Justice Clarence Thomas has facilitated the insurrectionist activities of his wife, as evidenced in her emails. Both have taken lavish vacations paid for by major republican/MAGA supporters. And Alito authored the Dobbs decision. Both men are disqualified from any further service on the Court. Until they are formally sanctioned or impeached, the US Supreme Court is a non-functional body and its decisions are tainted in the most literal sense of the word. No need to wait for Trump to destroy the Constitution. It's already happening.  And we damned well better do something about it. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.

CLR Show 1932. Air Date May 21, 2024. The title quote is from Mark Twain, but its significance is wholly contemporary. More than that, an openness to new experiences and new people will be an absolutely critical component of our attempting to establish a reasonable level of civic and civil discourse as we begin to contemplate life in recognizably united America after the era of Donald. The vectors are beginning to line up.    

CLR Show 1931. Air Date May 14, 2024. The outrage of college students over Israel's continued hostilities in Gaza and that of the MAGA crowd over anything that challenges Donald's ability to do whatever he pleases have something in common: a total and infantile lack of realistic expectations. The college students seem incapable of defining exactly what it is their universities should or shouldn't be doing to support Israel and haven't the foggiest notion how peace and governance would be maintained if Israel summarily left Gaza without a firm peace agreement in place. The MAGA crowd has can't seem to grasp the notion that we all live under a single Constitution and that Donald cannot suspend it at will for his own purposes. One would think in an age of instant everything, including information, such infantile thought processes would no longer be possible. Regrettably, that is not the case. 

CLR Show 1930. Air Date May 10, 2024. After a clearly unsuccessful cross examination of Stormy Daniels, Donald instructed his lawyers to demand a mistrial and demand that the gag order against him be immediately revised to permit him to attack Stormy Daniels on social media and the campaign trail. These are irrational requests and were rightfully denied. Clearly, team Donald has nothing to work with  and is looking to simply muddy the waters in the hope that some insanely false claims made by Donald will boomerang back and infect the jury deciding his case. The better odds are that Donald will be found guilty in less than a month. Then the real challenges to our democracy will begin. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach. 

CLR Show 1929. Air Date May 6, 2024. The notion that Hope Hicks' testimony in Donald's New York criminal trial will somehow 'prove' that Donald was motivated only by love of Melania in facilitating an illegal campaign contribution is as credible as him throwing himself on the mercy of the court during his sentencing. No rational or even on-the-fence juror will be swayed by such a specious argument. The bigger question remains, what will the republican party do once Donald is sentenced to prison time, as any other person in his position would be.  It is unlikely they will spontaneously embrace hope and run a more rational candidate. The base hasn't been prepared for such a sea change. They may have to confront a 2024 loss by more than 15 million votes by an incarcerated Donald who could never be paroled to serve even if he won. 

CLR Show 1928. Air Date April 30, 2024. There are no easy answers to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is a single, logical, reasonable goal; a two state solution permitting functional autonomy to Palestinians. But the current Israeli government is diametrically opposed to this solution. And Hamas is devoted to the elimination of Israel, not coexistence with it.  That means American college protestors will continue to press unreasonable and/or incomprehensible demands that serve only to keep Hamas and the real plight of the Palestinians in the news while exacerbating an anti-semitic trend that has been building in the US for a decade or more. The solution can only lie with a negotiated settlement brokered by honest brokers. Which is to say, things are not looking especially promising at the moment.

CLR show 1927. Air Date April 26, 2024.  The US Supreme Court, or at least its conservative majority has essentially declared itself an extension of Donald's warped will.  Speaking in legally dulcet terms during a hearing on Executive immunity, it effectively precluded any possibility that Donald's insurrection and other crimes could be tried before the November election, apparently with no concern for the obvious and chilling message this action sends to the vast majority of Americans and the world. Joe Biden has no choice but to add a minimum of three and possibly four new justices immediately after the election in November. And America has no choice but to reelect him if we expect to continue as a functional democracy. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.