*** “Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too….Let men be good, and the government can not be bad; but if it be ill, they will cure it. but if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and soil it to their turn.”
[William Penn]
This post presents excerpts from Ralph Nader’s “Tyrant Trump’s Biggest Legacy – Bringing Out the Worst in America” [ The Progressive Populist; August, 2026. We have said many times this now evident truth: Donald John Trump is a CANCER on the SOUL of America. The damage and evil he has done will live on for many years.. Trump has also poisoned how the rest of the world looks at America. Read the items below. – THINK on them. – think how Trump sabotages democracy, sabotages rational thinking, sabotages America’s future…………………..
1] “Championing the worst forms of energy – coal, oil, and gas. – and depressing solar energy and wind power….even paying ongoing wind project companies nearly a billion dollars in your tax dollars to stop construction!”
2] “Encouraging the worst corruption of the Pentagon – more waste, contractor fraud and abuse..”
3] “Brought out the worst from his toady Attorney Generals at the Justice Department…dismiss over 100 corporate crime cases…and made DOJ his personal law firm.”
***. ‘Good moral character is the first essential in a man.” [ George Washington ]
4]. “Encouraged the worst from the Environmental Protection Agency…greenhouse gases, motor vehicle gases, auto factories, and coal pollution are permissible for America’s children to breathe.”
5]. “Suppressed or canceled programs of scientific truth-seeking while publicizing pseudo-scientists who go far beyond healthy skepticism to peddle quackery..”
6] “Trump is self-servingly wrecking the Internal Revenue Service…grossly inadequate number of experts skilled in detecting complex corporate tax schemes and evasions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in TAX ESCAPES per year.”
***. “You do not have to think very hard to figure out what happens to a democratic society…when long-standing interpretations of the “rules of law” are mangled to reflect the personal desires of a handful of extremely wealthy people.” [ Aberjhani ]
7] “Trump has grievously brought out the worst from Congress, finishing off what is left of the separation of powers..”
8] “Trump brings out the worst from major corporations…allowing corporations to cheat, steal, harm, pollute, and violate with impunity almost any federal laws..”
9] “Worsening the architecture of the White House and nearby Washington, D.C., are major preoccupations of this egomaniacal dilettante. He illegally tore down the East Wing..”
*** “It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws.” [ Aristotle ]
10] “The Trumpeteer has brought out the worst in the mainstream media, giving preferential access to uncritical reporters, and restricting or prohibiting access to reporters who are steadfast and straightforward.”
11]. “From the people, he has celebrated vice over virtue, greed over charity, obscenity over decency, violence over peace, police and ICE brutality over more effective standards of prudence and restraint by law enforcers. As an open, brazen liar, a delusionary braggart, and a peddler of empty promises, Trump has troubled parents who see their youngsters mimic his abuses and foul talk.”
12] “He pardons hundreds of convicted violent criminals and other fraudsters and says he will pardon more crooks, even urging them to continue their lawless ways because he will pardon them..”
***. “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptional character.” [. Samuel Adams ]
13]. “Trump has violated seven of the Ten Commandments and is almost never seen in Church, yet Trump manages to bring out the most extreme hypocrites from the leadership of organized religion..”
14]. “His most fervent mission is to provoke biases and bigotry against recent immigrants and asylum seekers among millions of his voters who believed his lies about these desperate people, fleeing with their children from oppressive regimes and oligarchies..”
15] “Long after Trump is impeached and removed from office, his hateful, vengeful drive will bring out the worst from our country will linger and fester.”
*** “The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.” [ Tom Fitten ]
***. ‘..amid the Trump administration’s open marriage of public and private and criminal sectors in an astonishing replication of third-world kleptocracies..” [ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]
With Justice For All 