The suggestion that now is not the time to point fingers, that we should wait until this crisis is over and then make a post mortem is terrible advice. Trump won’t suspend his daily effort to shape the narrative and shift responsibility for the colossal unpreparedness of his administration for this deadly virus so it imperative for us to speak up now, not wait until the crisis is past.
We should have learned that lesson in the aftermath of the release of the Mueller report. Before it became public property, Attorney General William Barr in a press conference dishonestly spun the report’s findings to exonerate Trump. Let’s not repeat the same mistake.
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Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
