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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
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The influence of Citizens United was predicated on two assumptions: First, that facts mattered and needed to be “spun” through messaging, and second, that money was necessary to get that messaging out. But Trumpism obliterated both of those assumptions.
Read MoreRemember those memes with George W. Bush smiling and waving, captioned “Miss me yet?” There was even a billboard of it. Senators like Mitch McConnell, who are adept at playing the long game, haven’t shifted their focus from pleasing their corporate cash-cow donors by serving up policies that squeeze the 99 percent.
Read MoreIt can be argued that the 2020 election could not have gone better for Republicans. They will probably hold the Senate, make gains in the House, and purge themselves of the political albatross around their neck that Trump has become.
Read MoreFranklin D. Roosevelt took to the airwaves on Dec. 8, 1941, to tell us we were at war. But imagine he didn’t announce that Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Imagine that, instead, he said there had been only a “minor disturbance in the Pacific,” that it was “nothing to worry about,” and that the problem would “just go away.” This is how Donald Trump has approached the COVID crisis.
Read MoreTrump’s immovable “base” isn’t loyal to him so much as they’re desperately loyal to the idea of a vanishing white-majority nation. He’s made himself a symbol of that by pandering to white supremacists and defending Confederate symbols, so they’ve latched onto him as a potential savior. But the fact is that, despite their panicked fervor, they’ve never pushed Trump’s popularity into majority territory.
Read MoreTrump had to preserve the illusion, the mirage that he was a “winner,” at any cost. So, he stopped bluffing. He was so intent on “proving” he had a winning hand, that he actually showed it every time new cards were dealt. He showed his affinity for white racism and absurd conspiracy theories, and his disdain for science and health care. In the process, he’s kept throwing Republican chips toward the center of the table.
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