I’ll put it simply. If the person who tries to do a coup in your country gains power again after a failed attempt to hold him responsible for said coup, that country is in big trouble.

Trump's 'no funding for any schools that have a vaccine mandate' policy is not just insane but probably one of the least popular items in his agenda and Dems should probably test it out as a wedge message.

Netanyahu’s legacy: isolating Israel in the world, alienating next generation & in US, leaving it predominantly reliant on one party, shattering its previous bipartisan support apple.news/A0h0d09STQjChf…

It's worse. Netanyahu *is* a problem solver. It's just that the problems he's solving for are 'how can I stay in power and out of prison,' and 'how can Israel annex West Bank land.'
His focus on solving those 'problems' was a cause of Oct. 7, and is making the Gaza war worse.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
- Hannah Arendt

One of the media's primary failures is viewing EVERYTHING through a political lens. Approving a racially gerrymandered Congressional map is a loss for 'little d' democracy, but the media looks at it as a 'win' for one political party vs. the other, which misses the point entirely

Fired? Expelled? For expressing a political opinion in public?
There's no violence here, no obstruction, no destruction of property, not even tents in a place where people aren't allowed to camp. Just speech.
Punishment for that is the antithesis of a culture of free speech. No.

Yup, that’s the Quincy Institute giving a platform to JD Vance, arguably the most unprincipled charlatan in politics today.

Horseshoe Theory now has a think tank.
The people on the left who say Russia attacking Ukraine isn't Russia's fault and Ukraine should just surrender have joined with the people on the right who say Russia attacking Ukraine isn't Russia's fault and Ukraine should just surrender.

There was a conversation a couple weeks ago that outlined the difference between Gen Y and Z.

Zoomer argued an economy is bad because they're turning down jobs because they don't pay enough to live.

Millennial said in a truly bad economy you don't dare turn down jobs at all.

All of Putin's openness to 'negotiations' is:
1) 'We'll accept your surrender at any time'
2) 'We think we've maxed out at the moment, so let us pause, reconsolidate, and try for more later'
3) 'Maybe suckers will fall for this BS and it'll drive a wedge into Ukraine supporters'

Your periodic reminder that the institutions are not self-enforcing. They require all the people who swore all the oaths to country & constitution to actually do their damn jobs, even when that is politically hard to do. Their failure to do that, since 2017, is why we're here.

I understand what's happening here. I did a whole pod today devoted to making and developing exactly this point, including what Senate Dems could be doing about it that they aren't: newrepublic.com/article/181910…

'A generation of young Republican staff members appears to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.'
-David Austin Walsh
It's not Nazi symbols per se, it's what people into them would do in power
nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opi…

Some look to Trump’s presidency, see that America didn’t become a dictatorship, and think concerns he’ll break democracy are overblown. But that has it backwards. It’s because Trump was president that the threat is so great.
Here's how:
arcdigital.media/p/the-institut…

The Trump campaign 'Unified Reich' video doesn't matter much on its own. Staffer, WWI reference, now taken down.
But it's not on its own. It's one tree in a forest. As Greg Sargent argues, it's the broader acculturation to fascistic rhetoric that matters.
newrepublic.com/article/181843…

The US is further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize.
Trump already fought 9 battles with the institutions of democracy, winning 7. Reelection is the only barrier left.
I'm in Arc Digital, with blunt talk about what America's facing.
arcdigital.media/p/the-institut…

Also from Nicholas Grossman: When Trump signaled to Putin to only release his captive 'for me,' it was similar to 'where he said, Russia, if you're listening, hack Hillary.'

He's doing this 'openly' with 'a country he has known corrupt ties to.'

Listen👇
newrepublic.com/article/181910…