Was Trump influenced by Derrida? He has always been impressionable. One wonders if he hung with a group of francophiles at Wharton who honed to deconstruction to explain the phenomenon of gaslighting. Was January 6 an attack on Democracy and the peaceful transfer of power? Retrumplicans would have you believe the mob were storming the Bastille. "Let them eat Brioche," said Marie Antoinette. Who does the pronoun, "them," apply to? Besides Derrida, Trump was also influenced by the Berkeley Free Speech movement since he says whatever he wants. In the famous Schenck decision Oliver Wendell Holmes famously argued against the right to cry "fire" in a crowded theater--an action that Trump obviously feels is not only permissible but desirable.
"God Bless Pig Latin America" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
and read "Ultimate Rejection!" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
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