{"id":8278,"date":"2025-12-21T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:30:19","slug":"8278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/8278\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Near Christmas\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>My favorite \u201csad\u201d Christmas song \u2013 James Taylor\u2019s version of Joni Mitchell\u2019s &#8211;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L61dLf4C4-8\"><em>&nbsp;River<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christmas Week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s Christmas week, 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;This week is always a time of family, food, Great Lakes Christmas Ale, and fun. (I think we bought out the local supply of Ale).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But it\u2019s also a week of reflection, on last year, and on what the future will be.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s Christmas week, and ICE has come to Columbus.&nbsp;&nbsp;A hundred or more ICE \u201cofficers\u201d are staying at the Airport hotels for the next three weeks.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don\u2019t wish ill on anyone, but their actions seem especially heinous in the Christmas season.&nbsp;&nbsp;Families of mixed immigration status will need to hide in their homes, hoping for help with food from those willing to risk \u201caiding and abetting\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of them will still have to go to work (pay taxes, add to the economy) at risk of detention and removal. ICE showed up at a Columbus high school last week.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s was the \u201cjoyous\u201d last day of school before Christmas Break, now it is remembered by students as the day that masked, anonymous, military men threatened them and their classmates.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s Christmas week, and the Department of Justice flaunts the law.&nbsp;&nbsp;The House, the Senate (by unanimous consent) and the President signed a law requiring&nbsp;ALL&nbsp;EPSTEIN FILE materials turned over to Congress by Friday, December 19<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the Deputy Attorney General simply said, \u201cNo\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead, he turned over thousands of already released documents, hundreds of totally redacted pages, and some actual new material. Many of those were pictures of known Democrats with or around Jeffrey Epstein.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Department of Justice has a very different understanding of the word&nbsp;\u201cALL\u201d&nbsp;then do the rest of us.&nbsp;&nbsp;And a different meaning of the word \u201cJustice\u201d too.&nbsp;&nbsp;The law enforcers are now scofflaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Un-Doing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s Christmas week, and we are still murdering men in boats in both the Caribbean and the Pacific (nearly one hundred).&nbsp;&nbsp;We are threatening war with Venezuela, and we are bombing Syria. (Of all that, the Syrian bombing makes the most sense, since an ISIS remnant recently killed three Americans).&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh, and Donald Trump has added his own name to the \u201ctop line\u201d of the Kennedy Center.&nbsp;&nbsp;Credit where credit is due:&nbsp;&nbsp;gas prices are down.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the literal \u201ccost of Christmas\u201d, buying food and presents and decorations and everything else, is higher than ever.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s getting near Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There is so much to undo.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the eleven short months since Donald Trump assumed the Presidency, our Nation has become nearly unrecognizable.&nbsp;&nbsp;We now have a&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201csecret police force\u201d,&nbsp;&nbsp;called ICE.&nbsp;&nbsp;We have rolled back protections for minorities, particularly people of color.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our Nation is in the process of real indoctrination, what the Right has always accused supposed \u201clefty\u201d public education of doing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, even the State of Ohio has listed the \u201cChristian\u201d elements that should be taught in public school.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There are raging measles and whooping cough epidemics already.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will soon add other \u201cchildhood\u201d diseases to the list.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services no longer worries about Health.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead, it is pursuing the political agenda of extreme anti-vaxxers.&nbsp;&nbsp;The vaccinators have become the vaccine skeptics.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the National Park Service wants the authority to sell park land to private owners.&nbsp;&nbsp;Those who remember reading George Orwell\u2019s&nbsp;<em>1984&nbsp;<\/em>in high school are having flashbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The List<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The infamous Project 2025 is a nine hundred page list of changes the Right-wing Heritage Foundation wants to do to the American Government.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the blueprint for the Trump Administration, from DOGE to ICE to disbanding the Department of Education.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Plan short circuits the Constitutional system.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of the \u201cSchoolhouse Rock\u201d version, laws first passed by Congress then signed by the President; Project 2025 depends on their own interpretation of executive authority.&nbsp;&nbsp;They \u201cbelieve\u201d, almost in the religious sense, that the President has the ultimate and singular authority to make all and any decisions for the unitary executive branch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">All of the \u201cchecks and balances\u201d within the branch are short-circuited.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even the massive reform of the 1880\u2019s, civil service, is threatened.&nbsp;&nbsp;(As a reminder:&nbsp;&nbsp;in 1881 President James Garfield was assassinated by a disgruntled office seeker.&nbsp;&nbsp;Garfield\u2019s successor, Chester Arthur, got the the civil service act&nbsp;&nbsp;through Congress in Garfield\u2019s name. It required that the vast majority of government jobs be filled based on merit and ability, rather than political loyalty.&nbsp;&nbsp;But this non-partisan workforce is a threat to the Project 2025 plan.&nbsp;&nbsp;The authors call Civil Service the \u201cDeep State\u201d, and intend to destroy it.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Executive orders are put in place of laws, and are supposed to obeyed with the same alacrity.&nbsp;&nbsp;And those executive orders have the added \u201cbonus\u201d of exactly fitting with a newly Supreme Court created Presidential \u201cpower\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The President is now immune from criminal responsibility for any of his \u201cofficial\u201d acts.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, since executive orders are \u201cofficial\u201d, he now can do almost anything with impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project 2029<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We in the \u201copposition\u201d have a lot to do.&nbsp;&nbsp;First, we need to start clawing back power.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s happening:&nbsp;&nbsp;in the elections held since Trump took office, Democrats are winning overwhelmingly.&nbsp;&nbsp;We still have eleven months until the mid-term elections, when Democrats may be able to wrest back the House and Senate.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, we need to put the Administration under a microscope, and fight to protect the balance of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And we better be starting a list of what we have to \u201cundo\u201d from the Trump Administration.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is so much damage done, both here in the United States, and worldwide.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s going to take a Democratic President more than just his or her eight years to rebuild the \u201cguardrails\u201d, now no longer in \u201cnorms\u201d but in law.&nbsp;&nbsp;I suspect we already have more than nine hundred pages of things to fix.&nbsp;&nbsp;Call it \u201cProject 2029\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s getting near Christmas, 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;At least Santa Claus gets to start a fresh list on December 26.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our list will just get longer, and uglier, until we finally get to deliver for the American people.&nbsp;&nbsp;There will be plenty of time to \u201ccheck it twice\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite \u201csad\u201d Christmas song \u2013 James Taylor\u2019s version of Joni Mitchell\u2019s &#8211;&nbsp;River Christmas Week It\u2019s Christmas week, 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;This week is always a time of family, food, Great Lakes Christmas Ale, and fun. (I think we bought out the local supply of Ale).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But it\u2019s also a week of reflection, on last year, and on what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/8278\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting Near Christmas\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Getting Near Christmas\u00a0 : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/8278\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Getting Near Christmas\u00a0 : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My favorite \u201csad\u201d Christmas song \u2013 James Taylor\u2019s version of Joni Mitchell\u2019s &#8211;&nbsp;River Christmas Week It\u2019s Christmas week, 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;This week is always a time of family, food, Great Lakes Christmas Ale, and fun. 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