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In his address to Congress, Trump praised a guest in the audience who used a Florida tax credit scholarship to attend a private Christian school whose fundamentalist curriculum teaches creationism and the innate inferiority of Africans.

Trump's plans to defund the EPA, State Department, Department of Energy, and domestic violence agencies to raise $54 billion for new military spending will hit Native Americans especially hard.

Key public services may end up in private hands under President Trump. Privatizers claim this transfer of public wealth "saves money." But it impoverishes and hurts people, which costs taxpayers more than it saves.

Trump can play a president on television, but that's about it. He promises the moon with a straight face, while peddling the same old conservative snake oil in new bottles.

Trump's speech contained big whoppers, little whoppers, bamboozlements, empty promises, detail-free policy mumblings, flat-out intentional lies, trickery, and especially fear.

Democrats who were hoping Trump would inflict a knockout punch on himself in his first speech to Congress walked away disappointed. It looks like they’re going to have to learn to fight for themselves.

Resistance to Donald Trump needs an outside/inside strategy. Its strength comes from the streets. But it must also work to transform the Democratic Party into a people’s party, and not one beholden to the corporate donor class.