Guest Column

Trump and JD Vance are hot on the midterm campaign trail trying to convince voters that “sick” people, meaning Democrats, minorities, and immigrants, are “everywhere,” “stealing American taxpayers’ money.” To sell the claim, Trump recently assembled MAGA supporters for a rage-filled rant at the Oval Office where he unveiled his new snitch-for-hire program.

Trump waived sanctions against Russia just two days before they were set to go into effect under federal law. Braying that the US had done “a lot” for Ukraine while Ukraine had done nothing for the US — holding NATO’s nemesis at bay with no real help since 2024 is apparently “doing nothing” — Trump’s waiver came right after he announced another gift to Russia: that the US will now buy Russian diesel, effectuating a 180 degree reversal of years of US policy. After Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” he’d simply fabricated, Russia kept striking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, earning no words of remonstrance from Trump.

The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary defines common sense as “sound practical sense, especially in everyday matters.” Wikipedia defines it as “knowledge, judgment, and taste which is more or less universal, and which is held more or less without reflection or argument.” In modern English, it defines “plain, self-evident truths or conventional wisdom that one needed no sophistication to grasp and no proof to accept precisely because they accorded so well with the basic (common sense) intellectual capacities and experiences of the whole social body.” In his 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, author Thomas Paine used common sense as a tool in his argument in favor of the American colonies’ independence from the British Empire.

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