Steve Cohen is an attorney whose areas of practice are complex litigation and corporate governance for clients in the United States and around the world. He lives in South Egremont.
The way to stop Trump is simple: Fight him in the courts and mobilize to develop policies and spokesmen and -women to change the composition of the House and Senate in two years. Easy to say but hard to do.
If before a few weeks ago anyone suggested that a signature element of the foreign policy of the United Sates was the hostile seizure of friendly or neutral sovereign states through armed intervention or political sanctions, you would have considered them deranged.
So what happens now that the most influential leader in the world is a mercurial, autocratic wannabe with no realistic agenda and no real policies of how to make America great again?
Right now, there seems to be no possibility of any solution in the Middle East, only the faint hope of a ceasefire and an ongoing hatred waiting to erupt again.
Can we turn our backs on our artistic heritage because the works make us uncomfortable or are not politically correct today even though they were created in a different world?
Trump has announced he will seek retribution and has repeatedly denigrated a system which has provided him and his minions with fair trials in his numerous cases.
Contrition on the part of the defendant should always be considered; instead, he is claiming that the justice system is illegally and corruptly picking on him and that he committed no crime.
he real question is whether the American people will be foolish enough to reelect a grifter, liar, and the most historically dangerous threat to our democracy.
Since many seem blind to the fact that Jews do not surreptitiously control the world, a brief geo-political demographic lesson, particularly for my Italian friends, may be in order.
My concern is what seems to be the abject stupidity and laziness of the American voter, who doesn’t exercise his or her right to vote, the most fundamental right in a democracy.
