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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.

An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.

For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.

He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.

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How Trump sold the Big Lie with just one word

Stephen H. Provost

Faith is just another word for loyalty, and one with similarly positive connotations – except for one small detail: Blind faith is never a good idea. Putting your faith in the wrong person can be disastrous. And Trump was definitely the wrong person.

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Why Citizens United no longer matters

Stephen H. Provost

The influence of Citizens United was predicated on two assumptions: First, that facts mattered and needed to be “spun” through messaging, and second, that money was necessary to get that messaging out. But Trumpism obliterated both of those assumptions.

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What if Trump wanted to lose so he could stage a coup?

Stephen H. Provost

Donald Trump’s call to violence was never his backup plan. It wasn’t his Plan B, held in reserve in case he couldn’t win fair and square. Cheating was never Trump’s second choice. It was his plan from the very beginning, because it’s never enough to win by the rules. To Trump, you have to prove you’re better than those rules. Winning within the system is a sign of weakness; beating the system is the only thing that matters.

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Why impeachment is a waste of time

Stephen H. Provost

The entire impeachment process is built on a false premise: that politicians are fit to judge their own. It may have worked in theory in 1787, but it doesn’t work in theory or in practice now. Using a partisan grand jury and a partisan panel of political jurists to decide the fate of a sitting president (or any other partisan figure) is about as sensible as allowing members of Congress to redraw their own districts. When you trust the foxes to guard the henhouse, you shouldn’t be surprised if all your eggs have been broken and the chickens have been butchered.

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Trump's treachery is what Republicans love about him

Stephen H. Provost

Trump’s recipe for ruling America was treachery and tyranny, but he marketed it as “patriotism,” and his embittered followers bought it like the latest iPhone or PlayStation.

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5 ways debate watchers were fooled into thinking Pence won

Stephen H. Provost

Going into the debate, the election was a referendum on Trump, and nothing about the debate changed that — nor could it have, no matter what happened. The thing that saved Pence was that this was a vice-presidential debate, and those almost never matter. It won’t this time, either, which is a good thing for Pence, because he lost. Bigly.

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