Valerie Bunce
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I am wondering: what does she know that people outside the Trump
Circle don’t know. She could be looking ahead to Maga post-Trump and creating a lane for herself. Especially likely if other Rs will be brought down along w Trump.
Circle don’t know. She could be looking ahead to Maga post-Trump and creating a lane for herself. Especially likely if other Rs will be brought down along w Trump.
If only Republicans in Congress would just ignore Trump’s dangerous, stupid, policies and carry out their constitutional duties.
Reposted by: Valerie Bunce
The report completely neglects the way that much of the momentum in far right extremism has now become part of STATE VIOLENCE. It does not count ICE actions, militia actions, vigilantism clothed in state authority. THIS IS WHERE THAT VIOLENCE NOW RESIDES. (4)
Grievances have to be continuously invented, restocked and repeated, if they are the driving force behind politics and policy.
So did embarrassment. The more grandiose, self-promoting and moralistic the claim, the more likely it is a lie. These people specialize in super-size whoppers.
So the UN is only one more case of retribution for this guy, like, say, Letitia James or Columbia? One wonders—what did Tylenol do to him? Windmills? Shower heads?He is quite the grievance collector.
But why just the northeast—Michigan and the other great state schools in the Midwest. But there is the small matter of weather…
Perfect. And the states are making no cuts. It’s a matter of sharing with localities. And the localities are making no cuts, it’s a matter of sharing with neighborhoods.
Hard choices for blue states, because they care about the well-being of their populations. Red states have less of a problem, because they don’t care.
Surreal, but not if you were in Moscow in the second half of the ‘90s.
Mealy mouthed is the perfect description. People, including the mainstream media, don’t understand the gravity of what is happening. They assume (wrongly as we know from accounts of revolutions),that their lives would be in turmoil, if Trump were actually carrying out a fascist revolution.
You are right, Jamelle. Many never-Trumper Republicans have phrases, hardly the norm, that set them off. They are always on the lookout for ways to “balance” their criticisms of the GOP. Having turned on “their” party, they want to be sure that the Democrats deserve their support.
Revolutions always re-make states through a combination of purges and new forms of state intervention. Sigh.
Nothing like respect for elders! I prefer aging white hippies to aging white corrupt, racist billionaires.
I shudder to imagine how he understands the origins of war and the preconditions for peace.
Oh Philip Bump—I do miss your columns! You have a knack for asking the right—the telling—questions. A lot of bad questions, bad comparisons and casual uses of data have been sparked by Trump’s assault on the state, democracy and the international order. Keep giving us the alternative!
A case will be made for ice patrolling elections, because “illegals” vote. The elections will be stolen by controlling voter registration and intervening in vote tabulation. If Dems win by some miracle, a coup will be launched. A LOT of coups historically have happened in the wake of elections.
By excluding Ukraine and Europe? By leaving decisions about war and peace to two bullies? Where have we heard Vance’s line before? It is just peace as prelude to more war. Putin is like Trump—you debase yourself by letting him win a battle he started and then he responds by just wanting more.
Four issues are begging to be used by Democrats: the tragedy in Gaza, Trump’s construction of an American police state, the Epstein coverup and unheard of levels of corruption.