Reclaim the American Dream

We remember Abraham Lincoln as a great president, but he was also a great student of history and nearly a century ago, he predicted the presidency of Donald Trump. Not by name, of course. But he knew history and human nature well enough to warn us that someday America would see the rise of a strong-man leader hungry for absolute power. Someone like Caesar or Napoleon.

Donald Trump is the kind of threat Lincoln had in mind – stealing power from Congress, demonizing federal judges who rule against him,  purging the government, arresting students, trashing leading law firms and universities, playing havoc with the Constitution.

So how does Trump compare with foreign dictators? And can he be stopped? Get straight answers from Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Hedrick Smith who covered dictators in Moscow, Cairo and Eastern Europe for the New York Times.

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 A few days ago, Smith gave a web talk to a live audience and did a sharp Q-and-A session. It’s just the kind of smart, fact-based, straight talk that you’re looking for. To tune in, Click here. and hit the play arrow at the lower left.