Sunday Thought: Gratitude by Robert Reich

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Friends,

I just got back from a long walk. At this moment, I’m feeling grateful.

I took the walk because I had to calm myself after listening to Trump this week and fuming about the lapdogs in his Cabinet, his sycophants in Congress, and the cynical ideologues in his Supreme Court majority.

My particular problem, if you want to call it that, is I’ve served in a president’s Cabinet, spent a great deal of time in the White House and on Capitol Hill, worked in the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, and argued before the Supreme Court.

I know what it’s like to do these jobs. And I’m furious at people who are helping Trump trash these institutions.

Earlier this week I asked many of you who you believed to be the worst elected official in America, other than Trump. Of the 6,630 of you who chose from the four finalists I offered, 51 percent picked JD Vance; 20 percent picked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton; 19 percent chose Texas Governor Greg Abbott; many of you in your comments picked Mitch McConnell.

What do all of them have in common? A cynical contempt for the people of the United States.

So, where does my gratitude come from today?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-gratitude

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1. Ah it's the dreaded double post disease, striking again this AM!

happened twice in a row in quick succession.