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Building the Trump Reich

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Today is January 31, 2017.   We have sailed into uncharted waters, and we exist in unprecedented times in American history. And it troubles me so, this passion I feel.   Perhaps I should clarify – I am an emotional, passionate person by my very nature. I neither hide it, nor apologize for it. What troubles me is the not the passion I feel, but the basis for such passion.   The current presidential administration has been in place for less than ten full days. In that time Mr. Trump has signed multiple Executive Orders that belie the American ideal, one of which Orders has already been challenged in our courts. He was taken to social media to ridicule those that oppose him. He has been caught in outright lies, yet has refused to acknowledge the truth. And now he's fired a subordinate claiming that she betrayed him. He literally used the word "betrayed." Trump fired the appointed Deputy Attorney General, one who so fiercely prosecuted a known terrori