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The Middle Finger Election
One Week To Go
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There are 7 days to go until Election Day, and then 78 days until the Inauguration.
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What’s Going on with Republican Women? - The Bulwark
Their radicalization, Trumpism, and the rise of ‘pastel QAnon.’
Five Trump-Era Ideas That Should End with His Presidency - The Bulwark
Make room on the ash heap.
Why Christians Should Dump Trump - The Bulwark
I spent years working for a conservative Christian organization. But I believe that supporting Trump damages the country—and Christianity, too.
How conservatives betrayed virtue for Donald Trump
Most conservatives have been willing to inject the toxic sludge of Trump's character into the culture in order to win a political victory.
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This piece excerpts a column @SykesCharlie wrote in 2016: For boys, the president is providing a toxic road map to manhood.
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Beyond the Debate: Trump Is Running on Empty - The Bulwark
Instead of ideas, the president offered lies, evasions, and weapons-grade exaggerations.
Trump Is Toast - The Bulwark
A few hours ago I wrote a piece explaining in some detail why, if you take a 360-degree view of all of the polling data we’ve gathered over the last four years, the current view—that Donald Trump is losing by roughly 9 points—makes sense. Since the...
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When America wakes up on November 4, Joe Biden will have earned more votes than any man who’s ever run for president.
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The Polls Make Sense
Don't be spooked.
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This is the point on the ride where everyone freaks out and decides that the polls must be wrong. That you can’t trust the numbers. That something real is happening that isn’t being captured in the data.
But here's why you shouldn't be spooked.
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Rudy's Junk
Countdown Journal: 12 Days To Go
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The Rudy/Borat episode is creepy, but it also captures the weird grotesquery and gravity of this world we live in, where existential threats are played out in burlesque
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Secretly, the 2020 Election Is About Health Care - The Bulwark
And President Trump doesn’t know it.
Fifty Trillion Reasons Why - The Bulwark
How to understand the massive transfer in wealth to the top 1 percent—and what to do about it.
The Moral Necessity of Accountability for Civil Disobedience - The Bulwark
Since 1994, the majority of domestic attacks and plots in the United States have come from far-right extremists, leaving hundreds of Americans dead. This includes two-thirds of terrorist activity in 2019, and 90% of charted activity so far this...
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By its literal definition, civil disobedience cannot be violent or destructive. It is a peaceful breaking of a law–and acceptance of the consequences of breaking that law–in order to bring attention to injustice.
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Trump vs. Fauci - The Bulwark
On Monday, President Trump attacked Anthony Fauci, specifically, and scientific experts (“these idiots”) in general. He then “accused” Joe Biden of being likely to listen to Fauci, should he become president. (Biden’s apt, Coolidge-esque response:...
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We need a president who can cultivate the difficult and often unsettling debate that science requires, and a Congress that demands a more expansive, and less binary, conversation.
Trump’s disdain for science has done the country a great disservice.
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The GOP Becomes The Party of Q
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The Q-ification of the GOP escalated quickly, and in a manner that seems to assure that it will be a continuing factor in post-Trump conservative politics.
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Learning the Right Lessons from the Trump Experience - The Bulwark
Don’t forget the rule of stopped clocks.
In a World Without Movie Theaters … - The Bulwark
There’s a great deal of concern about the state of the exhibition industry given the impact of COVID-19 on attendance figures and release schedules. Prominent filmmakers and the exhibition’s business lobbying group, the National Association of...
Biden Must Stiff-Arm the Court-Packers - The Bulwark
It’s politically savvy—and smart on the substance of judicial reform—for Biden to delay giving a definitive answer.