John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.
The Connecticut Labor Department saw unemployment benefit claims jump 900 percent over four days, from a norm of 3,000 or so filings in a typical week ending Friday to nearly 30,000 on Tuesday. I asked yesterday what the economic indicators were to justify the president’s $1 trillion stimulus package. Well, there they are. But I can’t bring myself to…
Hi. I erred. Jobless claims jumped 900 percent, not 100 percent, in Connecticut. Thanks to the smarties who corrected today’s edition of the Editorial Board. While I have you, please consider becoming a paying subscriber!
It does not feel good to distrust a president at a time like this.
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Now he wants to act like we’re a nation.
Everyone agrees the president is weak, but few people understand why. Sure, Donald Trump is a lying, thieving, philandering sadist. That’s never helped his popularity. But I don’t think that alone explains his weakness. I have another theory you might like. You can’t really be a popular president when you’re leading a party that a…
Donald Trump is always right. Ask him.
Let’s thank him for it.
Things are moving quickly, but one thing’s for sure. You can’t expect the guy who betrayed his country by demanding foreign interference in the 2020 election to be the same guy who leads America out of a pandemic. You can’t trust a fascist to do the work of democracy. But you can trust a fascist…
You can’t trust a fascist to do the work of democracy.