The Remake of Forrest Gump
A month from now, it will be all over. I will have responded to Moh Moh’s, my daughter in Myanmar, email. Eight years ago, on election night, she wanted to know what was happening in America. Trump lost the popular vote but won in the Electoral College. I couldn’t explain to her how Donald the Dumb had won.
However, this election night will be different. Trump won’t be elected again. Now, there are many rational Americans who are worried. One that I respect a great deal is Robert Reich, who served in various administrations dating back to Ford, Carter, Clinton, and Obama. He is a lawyer, writer, and professor. Reich lived his life saying to "fight the bullies, to protect the powerless, to make sure that the people without a voice have a voice." His life was spent by He is worried. Ko Ko, my son in Myanmar, sent me a WhatsApp with a quote from Reich.
How can Trump—the sleaziest person ever to run for president, who has already been convicted on 34 felony charges and impeached twice, whose failures of character and leadership were experienced directly by the American public during his four years at the helm—be running neck-and-neck with a young, talented, intelligent person with a commendable record of public service?
I hope that Reich was venting. There are loads of Republicans who have worked in the federal government who aren’t voting for Trump this time. Here are some of the thinking Republicans.
Miles Taylor, Anthony Scaramucci, Chuck Hagel, Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, William Cohen, Robert Zoellick, Stephanie Grisham, Kenneth Adelman, Richard Barth, Carol Adelman, General John Barry, Sarah Matthews, Olivia Troye, Geoff Duncan, Alberto Gonzales, Alyssa Farah Griffin, William Webster, John Negroponte, Jeff Flake, Cassidy Hutchinson, Christopher Barton, John Bellinger, Admiral Kenneth Bernard, Mark E. Bitterman, William Bodie, Christian M.L. Bonat, Richard Boucher, Charles W. Boustany Jr., Charles R. Bowers, Greg Brower, Christopher Buckley, Richard Burt, Gahl Hodges Burt, Admiral Fred Byus, Jack C. Chow, James W. Cicconi, Peggy Cifrino, Eliot A. Cohen, Benedict S. Cohen, Barbara Comstock, Chester A. Crocker, Patrick M. Cronin, Stephen W. DeVine, Charles Djoui, Michael Donley, Raymond F. DuBoin, Lewis A. Dunn, Mickey Edwards, Jendayi E. Frazer, Aaron L. Friedberg, William Gaches, Janice Gardner, Stuart M. Gerson, James K. Glassman, Jon D. Glassman, David Gordon, Christopher Hankin, Mark Harvey, Carla Hills, Seth Hurwitz, Peter Keisler, James A. Kelly, Sofia Kinzinger, James R. Kunder, Brigadier General George Landis, Frank Lavin Peter Lichtenbaum, Winston Lord, Steven R. Mann, Colonel John W. McDonald, P. Michael McKinley, Dan Miller, John M. Mitnick, Alberto Mora, Kenneth Mortensen, Elizabeth Neumann, Bill Paxon, William R Piekney, Daniel M. Price, Alan Charles Raul, Victor Reis, Robert Annan Riley, Paul Rosenzweig, Charles O. Rossotti, Nicholas Rostow, Kori Schake, Gregory L. Schulte, Robert Shanks, Christopher Shays, John Simon, Stephen Slick, Mark C. Storella, William H. Taft IV, Miles Taylor, Larry D. Thompson, Jack Thomas Tomarchio, Robert Tuttle, John K. Veroneau, Colonel Terry Virts, Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Matthew C. Waxman, William F. Weld, J. Robinson West, Wendell L. Willkie II, ad infinitum.
Most of these names came from a Newsweek article that won’t for Trump.
In light of all the problems that Trump is experiencing, Hollywood remade the classic film, Forrest Gump. Who would have thought that, three decades ago, Hollywood would create a new version of the film?
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10/09/24