It is a strange time in America. Our military — the most powerful in the history of civilization — is led by people unfit for command. The man we have installed as president openly discusses turning it against our people.

He claims he has “brought back free speech,” but people and institutions who speak too freely find themselves deprived of federal funds, under federal investigation, being sued or even deported without cause, perhaps to a hellish prison in El Salvador.

Voters expect President Trump's economic policies to force consumer prices up, even though he promised to bring them down. He bragged he would end the war in Ukraine on "day one," but more than 100 days later he has yet to do so. Instead, he has humiliated Ukraine's president, attempted to extort concessions from him, and taken the position that Vladimir Putin, who has been charged with war crimes, should be able to keep the Ukrainian lands he has stolen.

Trump promised his immigration policy would focus on deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes. Instead, he's deporting legal immigrants with no criminal records and denying them their constitutional right to due process because that would take too much time.

The president's team has fired thousands of public employees in his war against government waste, yet he spent more than $20 million playing golf on 24 of his first 100 days in office. He is contemplating a military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., next month to celebrate his birthday, at an estimated cost of around $92 million.

When he isn’t taking mulligans on one of his 17 golf courses,........

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