If Democrats can’t make the nation fear Donald Trump, they have decided that perhaps they can persuade voters to laugh at him instead. And if there is one thing Trump cannot countenance, it is not being taken seriously. nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/…

“Democrats want to evoke memories of 2008,” Whatley wrote, “but this isn’t Obama’s Party—Kamala Harris is even more dangerously liberal.” With that, the tables turned. Republicans had become the party warning of looming disaster. Democrats just laughed. nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/…

The humor thing seems to be working for the Democrats. nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/…

Folks, no joke: I have some incredible New York Times colleagues who did some incredible coverage from Chicago this week. Here is just a sampling of those stories in case you missed them...

RFK Jr. posted this four days ago. youtube.com/watch?v=AcKRJp…

Come again? “Chris LaCivita, a top Trump campaign adviser, added in a separate statement that the cemetery official was ‘a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery.’” nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/… via @NYTimes

Making Fetch Happen: Why was Trump in Arlington anyway? Well, this is the 1st presidential election in 24 years playing out without a major US ground war. Without the Forever Wars, Trump lacks one of the central drivers of his New Right movement. nytimes.com/2024/08/29/us/…

.⁦GOP⁩ statement on Labor Day. The difference between Democrats and Republicans: the centrality of unions for the former, no mention of them for the latter.

Is there a single person on this platform who has a nuanced or interesting view on any topic? Literally one?

The question hanging over the day was just how important unions remain in a labor force where they represent 1 in 10 workers, half the number they once represented in the 1980s. It is also not clear whether union members will side with the ticket in force. nytimes.com/2024/09/02/us/…

Wow, so disturbing and so misguided. We know the “final solution” was meticulously planned and pursued even after the Nazis had lost the war. This is not somehow subject to interpretation. search.app/sjcmgYv3zPmckx…

Workers at Ultium, an EV battery joint venture, won a generous UAW contract in Lordstown, OH, last year. Now they’ve organized in Tennessee, the UAW’s second big win in that state in less than a year and a nod to the Biden administration’s green-jobs pro-union tilt.

Across the country, tight Senate races are playing out alongside popular ballot initiatives to keep abortion legal. So why are Democratic candidates in states like Florida, Missouri and Montana so far unable to clearly capitalize? It's complicated. nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/…

In front of the titans of finance in NYC today, Trump said many many things. They applauded. This is one of them. "Global warming. I say the ocean is going to go down 100th of an inch within the next 400 years. That's not our problem. Our problem is nuclear warming."

The titans of finance gathered to hear Trump's policies for the 21st century. What they got was praise for the 19th century. Tariffs will cure all that ails us, draconian immigration policies will do the rest. The titans, however, would get their tax cuts nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/…

My take: Tariffs will cure all, deficits, child care, industrial policy, how about a sovereign wealth fund? Tariffs! The titans of finance applauded. They would get their tax cuts. nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/…

“As everyone knows, she is a Marxist,” Trump said of Harris. But not all Marxism is bad. “China was built on doing exactly what we’re going to be doing.” If China had 5-year plans and a Great Leap Forward, Trump was more vague. “A.I., controversial.” nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/…

To claim the Holocaust was some accident of history and not a premeditated, meticulously planned genocide is false, pure and simple. The blowback against Tucker Carlson & his "historian" has been fierce. So far, JD Vance has not joined in the chorus. nytimes.com/2024/09/06/us/…