“We have created an electorate full of pundits and strategists, and the result is that we’re puzzling through not who we like but who we imagine someone else will like. It’s a fool’s errand to imagine who will be appealing to someone else.”
— Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), quoted by the New York Times, on picking a presidential candidate in 2020. ====================================================== Donald Trump Hates America July 19, 2019 at 9:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
David Brooks: “The real American idea is not xenophobic, nostalgic or racist; it is pluralistic, future-oriented and universal. America is exceptional precisely because it is the only nation on earth that defines itself by its future, not its past. America is exceptional because from the first its citizens saw themselves in a project that would have implications for all humankind. America is exceptional because it was launched with a dream to take the diverse many and make them one — e pluribus unum.”
“Trump’s campaign is an attack on that dream. The right response is to double down on that ideal. The task before us is to create the most diverse mass democracy in the history of the planet — a true universal nation. It is precisely to weave the social fissures that Trump is inclined to tear.” ===========================
Meet The Naked Billionaires [Click] “Why men like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein lie about their wealth, and why the New York City business media lets them.” Could go far to explain why DT goes to such lengths to conceal his tax returns.
Trump Supporters Don’t Make Chants About Men [Click] I’ve been thinking that Senator Warren might have to alter her clothing to accommodate a bulletproof vest. Whoever is the Democratic nominee, or looking like a strong possibility, ought to get the increased Secret Service protection Obama did.
Bernie reacts to DT's campaign rally chants
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“We have created an electorate full of pundits and strategists, and the result is that we’re puzzling through not who we like but who we imagine someone else will like. It’s a fool’s errand to imagine who will be appealing to someone else.”
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Donald Trump Hates America
July 19, 2019 at 9:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
David Brooks: “The real American idea is not xenophobic, nostalgic or racist; it is pluralistic, future-oriented and universal. America is exceptional precisely because it is the only nation on earth that defines itself by its future, not its past. America is exceptional because from the first its citizens saw themselves in a project that would have implications for all humankind. America is exceptional because it was launched with a dream to take the diverse many and make them one — e pluribus unum.”
“Trump’s campaign is an attack on that dream. The right response is to double down on that ideal. The task before us is to create the most diverse mass democracy in the history of the planet — a true universal nation. It is precisely to weave the social fissures that Trump is inclined to tear.”
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Searching In Vain for Trump’s Political Genius [Click]
Meet The Naked Billionaires [Click] “Why men like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein lie about their wealth, and why the New York City business media lets them.” Could go far to explain why DT goes to such lengths to conceal his tax returns.
Trump Supporters Don’t Make Chants About Men [Click] I’ve been thinking that Senator Warren might have to alter her clothing to accommodate a bulletproof vest. Whoever is the Democratic nominee, or looking like a strong possibility, ought to get the increased Secret Service protection Obama did.
Donald Trump is the archetypal far-right charismatic leader. But his magic won’t last [Click] “… his supporters… will lose interest because his aims are unattainable.” I sure hope it happens within the next fifteen months… This essay points the way to a systematic attack on Trump that none of his opponents has yet deployed.
231 years’ worth of political pundits’ electability predictions skewered. [Click]
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