Author: Jim

Stop Pretending Trump Is Not Who We Are

If we haven’t learned our lesson now, when will we learn it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-wins-harris-loses.html?smid=em-share

“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

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

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/

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