American Left
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The Woe of Roe 2
Setting aside the record of insincerity from Alito himself and the other conservative justices, the reason not to trust his disclaimer is that the Supreme Court has become an institution whose primary role is to force a right-wing vision of American society on the rest of the country. The conservative majority’s main vehicle for this
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The Case against Trump–and the GOP
Liz Cheney's indictment as summarized by Amanda Carpenter: Trump’s misinformation campaign provoked the violence on January 6th. Trump corruptly planned to replace the Attorney General of the United States so the U.S. Justice Department would spread his false stolen election claims. Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes on January
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Quote of the Day: Nate Hochman
Today’s culture war is being waged not between religion and secularism but between groups that the Catholic writer Matthew Schmitz has described as “the woke and the unwoke.” “Catholic traditionalists, Orthodox Jews, Middle American small-business owners and skeptical liberal atheists may not seem to have much in common,” he wrote in 2020. But all of
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Crazy Always Wins…
…in a culture that has lost its mind. This isn't a statement of hopelessness, because I believe that we will eventually recover our minds, even if it takes fifty or sixty years to do it. I haven't said anything about the mass shootings of the last few weeks because no solution seems possible until we
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Radicalized Elites on the Right 2
Appelbaum on Ezra Klein this week: I remember having a conversation — must have been about 2017 or 2018. I was in Texas, and I sat next to some people at a dinner. And they were pro-Trump, and we started talking about that. And I asked them, you know, aren’t they bothered by Trump’s corruption?
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Radicalized Elites on the Right 1
And I think this is why it is now the case that the Right finds it easier to move left on economic issues than the Left finds it to move right on social issues. And this is why, whether you like it or not — and this is not going to result from our conversation,
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The Danger of This Moment 1
“Unlike the bulk of their colleagues who are eager to remain in office, Romney and Cheney have decided continuing to serve in Congress is not worth the bargain of remaining silent about an individual they believe poses a threat to American democracy,” Jonathan [Martin] told me. “They also can’t understand why Republican colleagues they respect
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Reactionary Chic
Whereas the old Christian conservatism was about defending an old order, the new social conservatism is about overthrowing a new one. The transformation of the right is a direct response to a shift on the left. In the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the G.O.P. was the party of the traditional