719 days from now, we get a vote, a referendum on the first two years of the Trump presidency,

and on the corrupt MAGA rubber stamp Congress.

This is the warning.

Donald Trump is off to a fast start, assembling his cabinet.

The Democratic Party is in no real functional position to oppose all of them, particularly

given the resounding victory Donald Trump achieved in the election last week.

Yet, the American people and the Trump opposition are on the edge of an extremely important moral

victory.

When all of the votes are cast, it seems that Donald Trump will not have majority support

of the American people.

He will be a plurality winner, and the scale and the size of his victory

will be less than what George W. Bush achieved when he beat John Kerry by 141,000 votes in

the state of Ohio, becoming the nation's 43rd president. We should talk about the man that he picked to be Secretary of Defense. Because when he was

picked, Donald Rumsfeld, who had at one point been the youngest secretary in the nation's history

was celebrated. He went on to become the worst defense secretary in American history by a lot.

He was the principal architect of two losing wars

that killed a million human beings, 5,000 plus of them Americans, wounded tens of thousands,

incited a suicide epidemic, and cost $4 trillion. The arrogant Rumsfeld sent the first cavalry division to Baghdad without its armor.

He mandated that the United States Army fight a war of ideology on the basis, not of doctrine,

not on training, but the whims of Rumsfeld's ego. And it was a disaster. And now Donald Trump

has raised the ante. He has appointed somebody to become the Secretary of Defense, a National Guard

officer and Princeton graduate, with no real worldworld experience, outside of Fox News, to become the leader

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