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Hopelessly Liberal first posted a week after last November’s election. (HL1)  It was conceived and has operated as a survival guide to the Trump presidency.  We predicted in HL 7 and 21 that Trump would be out of office in less than three years through operation of...

Hopelessly Liberal’s readers are waterlogged after a deluge of hundred day assessments.  As promised, here is ours, but mercifully eschewing, with one exception, a listing and critique of major achievements and failures.  Instead, for one day H.L. becomes a...

Hopelessly Liberal, like all widely read political/social commentaries, is gearing up for next week’s review of Donald Trump’s first hundred days.  There is still time sister, so this is not that post or “those” because HL will post two – one “How’s he doing?” and the...

It’s unfortunate and dangerous for Democrats and liberals (there is some overlap) to be putting so much emphasis on the June 20 run-off election in Georgia’s 6th congressional district.  The contest is for the seat vacated by Dr. Tom Price when he became President...

Anyone can and is entitled to change their mind.  Neil Young urged it and Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin” of little ones – bringing to mine the thought that this president is possessed of a petty and easily distracted, if not...

For post-Trump America to emerge mostly intact, which is likely but not certain, we must walk and chew gum at the same time.  Support or opposition for the president’s act of war against the government of Syria shouldn’t eliminate or even defer opposition to all the...