When you compare Nixon to the current vile authoritarian, the former looks so good that I’m tempted to wallow in nostalgia and give the guy his due.
About: Dick Polman
Dick Polman, a former national political columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and WHYY News who has covered politics since 1988, currently writes weekly at dickpolman.substack.com. His work is syndicated nationally by Cagle.com, and he teaches journalism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been its “Writer in Residence” since 2006.
Robert Mueller was the best of America
Mueller was everything that Trump is not. Mueller’s honorable personal code is unfathomable to a global pariah.
Were paying a big price at the pump for the incompetent warlord’s bloodlust
Trump is presiding over a national pandemic of pain at the pump.
The MAGA chicken hawk and his bumbling minions are bombing us with BS
We shouldn’t try to divine Trump’s end game, because, on that topic, he’s predictably incoherent.
Nostalgia alert! Pam Bondi makes me pine for Janet Reno
Unlike Bondi, who’s chained by choice to Jabba the Hut, Reno was so conscientiously distant from Clinton that his aides nicknamed her the Martian.