David Rothkopf and Bernard Schwartz/The New Repubic:
Trump Is a Mixture of Each Menace We Have Ever Confronted in Our Historical past
If we get up to terrible information on November 6, we’ll be asking ourselves one query: Did we do sufficient?
For the previous almost 250 years, when america confronted a grave risk, our individuals rose up and sacrificed no matter it took to defeat it. From the American Revolution to the Civil Battle to the menace of the Nazis or Soviet communism, we have been keen to do what we needed to do to defend what we valued most about this nation.
As we speak, because it did as soon as earlier than, in 1861, the best peril confronting the nation comes from inside. Then as now, it was a risk that sought to divide America, and it was a risk based in racism, contempt for our Structure, and a twisted sense of what was price preserving from our previous.
The brand new risk, after all, is led by Donald Trump.
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So, ask your self, is that sufficient to make you do greater than you’ve got accomplished? Is that sufficient to commit for the subsequent 10 months to do greater than you’ve got ever accomplished throughout an election yr? To present extra? To canvas extra? To unfold the phrase extra? To assist get voters to the polls? To make sure each member of your loved ones, your folks, your co-workers do the identical? The stakes are too excessive to do lower than every little thing you’ll be able to. The stakes are too excessive to permit this man to proceed to play any function in American public life.
On this thread, Michel Knigge paperwork a few of the rising German protests towards the precise wing Alliance for Germany (Allianz für Deutschland, AfD), which is rising within the polls. The thred importantly contains many cities within the former East Germany, the place the AfD is strongest:
David French/New York Instances:
When the Proper Ignores Its Intercourse Scandals
However tales akin to [Paul] Pressler’s complicate this narrative immensely. If each the advocates and enemies of the sexual revolution have their Harvey Weinsteins — that’s, if each progressive and conservative establishments can allow abuse — then all that partisan ethical readability begins to vanish. We’re all left with the disturbing and humbling actuality that no matter our ideology or theology, it doesn’t make us good individuals. The allegedly virtuous “us” commits the identical sins because the presumptively villainous “them.”
How does a typical conservative activist cope with this actuality? By pretending it doesn’t exist. Shortly after the Pressler settlement was introduced, I seemed for statements or commentary or articles by the conservative stalwarts who cowl left-wing misconduct with such zeal. The silence was deafening. If you happen to primarily obtain your info from right-wing sources, the chances are good that you simply haven’t seen this information in any respect.
The Hill:
Cheney recirculates Stefanik Jan. 6 assertion after she reportedly deletes it
Former No. 3 Home Republican Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) recirculated Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) assertion on the Jan. 6 Capitol assault after the present Home GOP Convention Chair reportedly deleted it off her web site.
On Tuesday, Cheney shared on X, previously referred to as Twitter, a hyperlink to Stefanik’s now-deleted assertion about Jan. 6.
After sharing Stefanik’s assertion, it was deleted from the New York congresswoman’s web page, which now solely shows the “ERROR” message.
This Stefanik story goes effectively with the David French piece above.
Benjamin Wittes/”Canine Shirt Each day” on Substack:
The Actual Republican Place on Ukraine
It isn’t that Republicans hate fucking over migrants much less; it is that they love fucking over Biden extra.
So let me be certain that I’ve obtained this straight:
Even Republicans who help Ukraine funding don’t help it sufficient to cross this funding with out successful, in trade, punishing adjustments to immigration guidelines;
And even these Republicans who favor buying and selling Ukraine funding for such punishing adjustments to immigration guidelines now don’t need these punishing adjustments to frame coverage, as a result of that may contain giving President Biden a win regarding the border within the run-up to the election;
And by “a win” right here, what I really imply is a loss, insofar as Biden must settle for coverage adjustments past these he really needs, since if he agreed with Republican proposals, there wouldn’t should be a protracted negotiation over them within the first place;
Which is to say that Republicans don’t need a win towards Biden if it could imply passing a invoice they purport to need together with Ukraine help they purport to help, as such a win would deprive them of the flexibility to criticize Biden for not capitulating in exactly the style that he now needs to capitulate;
So in different phrases, not even the tantalizing prospect of fucking over migrants can induce even these Republicans who purport to help Ukraine to not fuck over the Ukrainians;
Charlie Sykes/The Bulwark:
Why Wall Avenue is Surrendering to Trump
Plus: Kinzinger calls out the GOP’s betrayal of Ukraine
We study from historical past that we don’t study from historical past — Friedrich Hegel
One of many fondest bits of resistance fantasy has been the notion that the nation’s financial elites — the titans of Wall Avenue, the attractive individuals of Davos, the financial masters of the universe— would, in our second of peril, mount the barricades to defend democracy.
To which an affordable individual may need responded: Have you ever met these guys?
“The UnPopulist” on Substack:
What Do Efforts to Bar Trump From the Poll Accomplish? A Dialog with Andy Craig The UnPopulist editors focus on the hazards of not utilizing Part 3 to disqualify Trump
Andy Craig:
There was no alternative for this query to come up within the pre-election context. Since then, in all places has adopted. … We now have official normal government-printed ballots. We have had that for just about in all places for greater than 100 years now. The federal government has to make the selections someway about who qualifies for that. There’s lots of difficult fights. You may hear, notably third-party individuals, however typically Republicans and Democrats, get caught up in it, too.
Candidates get kicked off the poll on a regular basis in america, typically for very piddly, technical, not very well-justified causes. That isn’t distinctive, however there’s this query, do the individuals have the precise to vote for someone, after which it is as much as Congress to determine after they’re counting the electoral votes. The case that states can kick disqualified candidates off the poll could be very robust as a result of there is a lengthy historical past of doing it.
Cliff Schecter and Stephanie Miller focus on Trump the wannabe dictator:
