Flashback: See CSNY call for the impeachment of President George W. Bush
yesterday ripping into President Trump. “You are a disgrace to my country,” he wrote. “Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment, and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable.… Our first black president was a better man than you are.”
It was not the first time that he took issue with a Republican administration. Back in 1970, Young responded to the Kent State massacre with the furious “Ohio,” in which he called out President Nixon by name. President Ford wasn’t in office long enough to draw Young’s fire, and he briefly supported Reagan in the early days of his administration.
“Reagan, so what if he’s a trigger-happy cowboy,” he said. “He hasn’t pulled the trigger. Don’t you think it’s better that Russia and these other countries think he’s a trigger-happy cowboy than think it’s Jimmy Carter, who wants to give back the Panama Canal?” The brief flirtation with Reaganism horrified some of Young’s liberal fans, but he won them back in 1989 when he tore President H.W. Bush to shreds with “Rockin’ in the Free World.” “We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man,” he sang, inverting one of Bush’s signature phrases before turning to his plea for a “kinder, gentler” America at the 1988 RNC. “We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand.
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