Month: November 2024

******************* No One Has an Alibi

“If you placed your faith and loyalty in Reagan and Bush’s party of freedom, you need to accept that the party of Trump and Vance has rejected your ideals, discarded your heroes, defiled your most cherished political memories,” writes @davidfrum:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/american-republic-trump-threat/680501/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYUvCzwWhkDVUgb-_4mw1dLo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

What’s the Deal With Pennsylvania?

In Pennsylvania, both campaigns “are posing versions of the same question: Who are the real outsiders? Who are ‘they’?” @helenlewis writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/2024-election-pennsylvania-rural/680489/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYfh6eJfpdq1pBUcE7OLOLxo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

[The Washington Post] Why identity politics is poisonous to the ideal of human equality

Antiracism promoted by Ibram X. Kendi and others shares the premise of the Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 Supreme Court decision buttressing racist Jim Crow laws.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/25/kendi-antiracism-rejects-universalism/

*********** NYTimes.com: There Will Always Be a Trump. That’s Only Part of the Problem.

There Will Always Be a Trump. That’s Only Part of the Problem.

The question is how to keep him — and those like him — in check.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/opinion/trump-mcconnell-courage-leadership.html?smid=em-share