Knowledge, ideology, and real socialism in our times

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Trump proclaims a golden age for America

Trump proclaims a golden age for America

An open-minded take on the January 20, 2025, Inaugural Address

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Charles McKelvey
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Peter Baker, in a skewed interpretation of Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, published in The New York Times website shortly after the address, writes that Mr. Trump “largely dispensed with lofty themes and the broad unifying strokes favored by most presidents in their Inaugural Addresses.” Baker’s interpretation would truly astonish us, if it were not for the fact that we are accustomed to one-sided and negative interpretations of Donald Trump by the major U.S. media. For readers who have not read a transcript of Trump’s inaugural address, but who would like nonetheless to be connected to the real, I can inform you that Trump in his January 20 Inaugural Address put forth a vision of a prosperous nation, with its people united across differences of age, gender, race, ethnicity, and region; a nation again respected throughout the world; a nation whose people once again have faith in their democracy.

Trump began his Inaugural Address with visionary …

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