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Trump Times: A San Francisco-based writer Joseph Sutton expresses his thoughts

With the recent antics of former President Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery hitting the newsfeed this past August, San Francisco-based writer, Joseph Sutton expressed his ire at the incident.

“Just yesterday (Sept. 3) it was reported that Trump now claims the incident at Arlington was a made up story,” said Sutton. In 2019 Sutton published a book of essays entitled, "Trump Times."

“From the 2016 primaries to the end of Donald Trump’s first year in office, I wrote a great deal about him in my journal," said Sutton. "I extracted my most pertinent thoughts about the man and presented them in "Trump Times," showing why Donald Trump is truly a menace to America’s institutions and ideals.”

Just recently, Sutton read Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent."

From her book, Sutton was able to gain an insight as to why Trump has maintained a “cult-like” status among his supporters.

“It just came to me after reading Wilkerson’s book,” said Sutton. “He feeds into the white peoples’ fear of being replaced by a non-white, diverse majority.”

This is something that sociologists and others have observed. They foresee that in a short period of time, the predominant white race in America that has persisted for four hundred years will not be the majority anymore. People of color will be the majority.

Author, William H. Fry published his findings in 2018 based upon current statistics. The Brookings Institute posted a commentary by Fry on its website.

As Fry initially stated. “New census population projections confirm the importance of racial minorities as the primary demographic engine of the nation’s future growth, countering an aging, slow-growing and soon to be declining white population. The new statistics project that the nation will become ‘minority white’ in 2045.”

“White people (those made up of primarily a European ethnic background) have historically been the central focus in society,” said Sutton. “I can see that now,” he said.

“Trump and his supporters," added Sutton, "continue to lie and try to persuade the American people to believe all sorts of propaganda, continually fueling fear and insecurity.”

Confusion about the role immigration plays in American democracy and the economy for example, is one issue Sutton sees that Trump uses as a “smoke screen” to distract the country from other important issues.

“That mantra Trump uses of ‘Make America Great Again,’ is a façade," said Sutton. "He uses it to dissuade the American people from trying to understand the world in the context of the actual situation of the 21st Century.”

“If Trump can use sentiment and nostalgia to get people to want to turn back to a previous era, he will,” said Sutton. “Just like he uses the big lie to frighten people into believing that the last election was rigged and stolen.”

Pointing out Trump’s attempts to avoid going to court, Sutton noted. “Trump has been indicted by the courts for criminal misconduct at least four times.”

Sutton is perplexed that the majority of the conservative U.S. Supreme Court this past July ruled that former presidents can never be prosecuted, that they're immune for actions relating to the core powers of their office. "As a result," said Sutton, "if Trump is elected president again, he will no doubt become a dictator.

“Even so," said Sutton, "I believe Trump is using every trick in the book to get back into the White House. The American people who support him, especially the white people, need to realize Trump has will kill Democracy in our country.”

“We wouldn’t have as much division in this country if Trump had conceded the 2020 election and hadn’t instigated the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capital building,” said Sutton.

Sutton who has been writing for over 50 years and has published over two-dozen books, perceives a nation divided and deceived by a megalomaniac billionaire.

“Trump seeks out heavy-handed world-leaders of questionable scruples like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to validate him, while he ignores the proper protocols of diplomacy and U.S. policy and statesmanship.”

Sutton hopes that as the November election draws near, the American people will see through the illusion that Trump and his supporters have created in the last four years and that they vote sensibly and responsibly.

To learn more about writer Joseph Sutton and his book "Trump Times," visit his website.

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In the current political climate…

Regarding the recent antics of former President Trump at the Arlington National Cemetery, all I can say is…Nothing that Donald Trump does or his supporters surprises me.

I try not to get caught up in the media frenzy that is the Trump campaign.

Again, as I’ve said before… (especially to those that ask if I voted)

The one thing I’ve learned from the presidency of Trump is this simple fact. People who have NO previous elected official experience should NOT be placed on the ballot for the office of President.

The United States is no longer a rural “self-taught” minimally educated country.

Abraham Lincoln was an exception and even then he did manage to become a lawyer and get some elected official experience before running for president.

The only thing that got Trump into the White House was his “personality” and “celebrity” status.

There have been numerous “on camera” “on-tape” interviews and circumstances that clearly indicate Trump isn’t presidential material.

His seeking out Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the Communist leaders of North Korea, as I’ve noted before to many people who have pulled me into political conversations was the most obvious indicator.

But no one really took that to heart in the media. Our divided and partisan Congress should have been alarmed by such disregard for American diplomacy and our national security.

The American people should have spoken out. But they are like little amphibians in a warm pot of water, all sleepy by the comfort.

The American public is unaware that the warm water is slowly coming to a boil and that they will be cooked.

The baby-boomers as an overall group neglected to take real leadership amid all the unique freedoms they were afforded.

And when then president Reagan enticed the public with “deregulation” Reagan and his administration cleverly dismantled the infrastructure that provided direction and safeguards for the economy.

Did the baby-boomers truly protest? No! They went along with it because they wanted to “go upscale!” Being solidly middle class wasn’t enough.

Even the activists didn’t want to be solid middle class.

A lot of undermining and disempowering was done during those years. But nobody wanted to confront it.

Instead people got pre-occupied with “special interests” and “unique amenities and privileges.”

Everyone was partaking in this mind set in one way or another.

Instead of keeping in focus the strides that were made in Civil Rights and other areas, people were dissuaded by the illusions of the “upscale mobility” economy.

Meanwhile, excessive spending and “celebrity status” mindset were on the rise. “Lifestyle” was emphasized more than actual living standards and conditions.

Everyone was oblivious to this! Everyone!!!

Trump was popular in the 1980s at the peak of the Reagan-Bush Administration.

And like it or not, it’s that popularity from the 1980s and early 1990s that the overall energy of the Trump campaign gets its power. Be it something of a nostalgia, or something else…

This is how Trump built his cult-like following. Check it out! Look it up if you want.