Worth recalling how many powerful people and institutions were desperate to elevate a Black Dem who bashed BLM and the left. It was obvious in 2021 that Adams was corrupt and had no real interest in governing. www.politico.com/news/2022/05...
The New York mayor spoke last week at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event at the request of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
"Ashley Jardina distinguishes between a politics of racism and white identity. Some white voters who are not opposed to stronger social-welfare policies in general can be manipulated by appeals to the sense that white people as a group are threatened." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The former president and his advisersâ strategy is to make white voters afraidâand they donât care if they have to lie to do it.
Behind a paywall, but a really interesting take. Worth reading in full. www.ettingermentum.news/p/kamala-doe...
September subscriber questions, also covering the VP debate, what a Kamala administration may look like, and who the next Bernie may be.
Flashback to living in New York in the 2010s and occasionally being informed by various liberal and leftist journos that Reihan was actually a really nice guy IRL
the problem with a text based medium is i canât fully express the depth of my contempt for reihan. just a total charlatan who will defend anything up to and including blood libeling immigrants www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wal...
Chris Wallace stepped in to scold a panelist for attempting to change the subject after he defended Trump and Vance spreading a false story about migrants.
Excellent. "If newcomers â whether they cross the border or seek asylum or obtain temporary protected status â are welcome after they are here, why such financial and ideological commitment to a violent apparatus to keep them out in the first place?"
Wrote about something thatâs been bothering me while seeing otherwise well-intentioned defenses of our Haitian neighbors. âHuman beings are significant and full of potential and worthy of love, regardless of the labor they provide or whether their simple existence is considered âlegal.ââ
In his first weekly column, Prem Thakker explains why we must defend newcomers on the basis of humanity alone.
"...the true work of political action is not to identify idealized superheroes to run for office. It is, instead, to create the conditions in the world that make it safe for the cowards to vote the right way."
"Cease your valorization of political candidates, and cease also your tortured moral struggle over 'supporting' a candidate who has done something awful. ...There are many heroes in this world, and very few of them are politicians." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-thi...
There are Enemies, and then there are Cowards.
Rather than thinking of elections as being between "good" and "bad" candidates, it is more realistic to see them as contests between Enemies and Cowards. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-thi...
There are Enemies, and then there are Cowards.