After observing and writing about this turbulent decade in our politics I am publishing the essays that I posted to my online blog at The Armchair Observer (now deleted). Beginning with the Obama years, witnessing the strange behavior of the Republican Party as exhibited in one astonishing obstreperous stance and act after another. They seemed determined to be the most rabid patriots ever to dismantle the laws and traditions of America and our republic. When they were Trumped in 2016, attacks on our democracy increased exponentially. We the people have been divided and co-opted to help increase wealth inequality in America, to vandalize the planet in the name of fossil fuels and old school manufacturing, to sign on to isolation from our best allies, to xenophobia, racism, and white supremacy, to feed an old man's ego and to help destroy our democracy. In this series you can refresh your memory about some of the oldies but goodies.