As Donald Trump is sworn in today as the new President of the United States, The Young Turks team takes a look at the silver linings during what is an upsetting time for many.
“The new President offered anger more than grace, the cudgel more than comfort.
“Donald Trump started his presidency as he intends to continue – defiant, populist, anti-establishment and talking directly to an America that he sketched as dark, dangerous and dystopian; a nation under siege from foreign competitors and Muslim terrorists, and which had been screwed by a Washington cabal.
“The traditional staples of these speeches – salutes to the value of the Constitution and national institutions and maybe a bit of poetry – were consigned to the shadows as all the light on a bleak day shone on the great vertical pronoun.”
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