“I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos.” Trump at the Council for National Policy Recalling that Mark Burnett wanted once to have Trump arrive at an event like Hitler at the Nuremburg rallies, next week’s GOP convention should have bombast to compensate for all the clusterflopping going…
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Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future
So many things to clean up starting January. A Josh Rogin piece at WaPo suggests that progressives will be sidelined in a Biden-Harris foreign policy. ‘Democratic muscular liberalism’ is more rebranding for the same centrism that often supported making wars last longer and often with less satisfying outcomes, despite multilateralism and its international alliances. Now that…
“EVERY TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY SCANDAL IN ONE TWEET.”
That is a new Twitter thread by Seth Abramson, drawing on the research he did for his 3 books on Trump. That’s one tweet per scandal. There are 20 Tweets covering issues with the EU and some 2 dozen plus individual nations. If you want to read the original in Twitter, you can start here…
NC-Sen: NC Policy Watch, “COVID-19 proves that Thom Tillis was wrong about rules for public health”
From Dean M. Harris at NC Policy Watch: In 2015, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina argued that we don’t need government rules for public health in the food service industry, because the free market would protect public health and safety. As an example, he said that the government should not require Starbucks to…
MN-Sen: Sen. Tina Smith (D) Mounts Pressure On McConnell To Hold A Vote On Police Policy Reform
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tina Smith’s (D. MN) re-election campaign: Friend — This morning, House and Senate Democrats announced a new bill that could bring transformative change in policing. I am proud to join the Congressional Black Caucus, the House Judiciary Committee, and Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris in helping introduce…
more government policy by tweet: Trump threatens Michigan because it's free haircut protest day
Likely Trump tweeted because of the haircut protest, much like his comment yesterday that Virginia needed to use the Second Amendment to protect its potatoes. Trump is spreading lies about voting (again). ▶️Michigan is sending vote by mail applications, not ballots.▶️This is exactly what several GOP secretaries of state are doing. ▶️It is completely legal…
MSNBC host scolds Las Vegas mayor for survival of fittest policy
MSNBC's Katy Tur interviewed Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, who wants the city and the strip to open with no real plan other than survival of the fittest. Katy Tur scolds Las Vegas mayor x x YouTube Video Watch the entire episode here. Katy Tur has been doing some great journalistic work. Recently, while she covered the…
Fox News and Central Casting: when military policy comes from bone spurs
Eddie the Seal becomes the Joe the Plumber for war crimes, because Trump needs celebrity props for his rallies. The message to the Trump base is that visceral barbarism might be excused under his rule. And are you distracted from impeachment yet again. If Donald Trump gets his wish, he’ll soon take the three convicted or accused…
Here we go again: Campaign press ignoring Democratic policy
There's been a complete transformation in how the campaign press covers elections in the last decade, and it's a defining change that's benefiting Republicans, and specifically Donald Trump. The change is in the way the press has dramatically curtailed its coverage of policy and of what candidate agendas look like. Coverage of policy proposals used…
The inhumane side of our immigration policy that has real consequences
I interviewed Andrea Fernandez with her friend Jasmarie Hernandez before she went on stage at the Unlock the Future rally in Houston sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW) on immigration policy. The two got up early that Sunday to drive the 180-mile trek from Austin to Houston for the rally. I asked her why she came this…
the creep state: the Council for National Policy is a source of WH policy
Consider this little CYA item meant to distance VP Pence from Ukraine-gate that could mean a readiness to cut Trump loose. x WSJ: VP Pence advised against releasing notes of President Trump's call with the president of Ukraine. https://t.co/6dCprfgsH6— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 28, 2019 many of those anti-LGBTQ policies come to the WH via Mike…
