My inner skeptic – we all have one --is a skeptic’s skeptic. The word “skeptic” is yet to be used as a political cudgel by incumbent politicians and those who look favorably upon them, unlike such battering rams as “Nazi” and “Fascist.” Connecticut US Senator Chris Murphy has notably deployed his moral brickbat against President Donald Trump, nearly universally reprehended in New England, New York and Connecticut, the “land of steady [bad] habits. “We must not,’ my skeptic says, “expect to see on Connecticut editorial or Op-Ed pages commentary in praise of Trump. Victor Davis Hanson, an astute political historian and commentator, wrote a book a few years ago titled provocatively The Case for Trump. The book has since been updated. The Epoch Times recently ran an analytical piece titled, “ 30 Ways Trump Impacted the US, World in First Year .” There is no question, even among Trump’s most energetic opponents, that Trump stands at the head of a transformative presidency. ...
go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams