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.
Our nation may be waking up. Immigration and the fear of the other was the Trump linchpin for his electoral success, and the polls now show a turning away from his brutal enforcement and his deportation policies.
We are entering into more dangerous territory, where delay may result in martial law as Trump invokes statutes to deploy federal troops in civilian law enforcement settings.
Since Donald Trump has no shame and the Justice Department is now just an arm of his organization, it seems someone else is going to have to sue him to stop his selling of the presidency and the United States to any foreign government who wishes to bribe him.
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?
