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Trump woos an ally that gave his monstrous role model an exile of obscene luxury

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Last Thursday, a federal judge in Massachusetts put her foot down and stopped Trump’s Republican toadies on the Postal Board of Governors from seizing control of your mail-in ballot this fall. She noted that neither the Constitution nor Congress gives him or them that power and, besides that, there’s no time for states to comply with their demands. They’re still trying, though, and if they’re unsuccessful, we can fully expect this scheme to reappear in the presidential election in 2 years with even greater intensity. I’ve seen up-close-and-personal how this plays out when corrupt leaders driven by sex, money, and revenge take over a nation. It ain’t pretty. Thanksgiving Day of 1980, I was the guest of host Sanford Ungar on NPR’s All Things Considered show, live from the famine zone of Kampala, Uganda , describing what I’d seen in the preceding days. Both times he asked me about soldiers (the country was militarily occupied by Tanzania at the time, them having evicted Idi Amin). The mil

First report: A blood-soaked warning from history predicts America’s immediate future — alternet.org, 13d