THIS IS A FEW WEEKS OLD,…but James Ridgway’s point-by-point rundown of an Administration steadily sending our nation into ruin still reads quite ominous.

HEY, WE’VE GOT OURSELVES a good old-fashioned dock lockout on our hands, just like in the heyday of organized labor. Think of it as a showdown against the steady erosion of worker rights. During the long build-up to this crisis, our unelected president once threatened to use federal troops as scab workers on the docks. If that happens, watch him then try to authorize dock management to hire permanent replacement workers.

In 1981, Reagan destroyed the air traffic controllers’ union and got away with it. The tactic even boosted the old dodderer’s image as a tough-talkin’ “Ronbo.” I suspect the current Penna. Ave. occupant won’t be so lucky. If he turns the longshore lockout into yet another excuse to suck up to corporate power and stick it to everyone else, we just might end up seeing the precarious status of the Austin bully droop, leading perhaps to even more unstable and implausible warmongering poses. If we’re lucky, he’ll collapse from the combined burden of his amassing lies, before he bombasts his way into WWIII.