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WSJ columnist @PeggyNoonanNYC had refused to meet Trump for eight years: “I had a feeling that up close he would be charming and funny—and that it would mess with my swing as an observer.”
After finally meeting him a couple weeks ago, she told herself: “Honey, your intuition was... See more
Honestly with Bari Weissx.comto participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The next few weeks could begin a shift that would make the Democratic Party more attractive to more Americans for decades.
My take: https://t.co/LWbOx2ERuK
Fareed Zakariax.comThe emerging portrait from these Biden postmortems is of a president who didn't have a typical POTUS level of command due to age-related decline. And who therefore was serving as a sort of proxy president for his staff, "the groups" or whomever had his ear.
Nate Silverx.comWorld Edition - The Atlantic
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“handsome and pretty and educated and white”, who, according to the Times, not only “believed they owned the world” but “had reason to”. She was from a Pittsburgh suburb, Upper St. Clair, the daughter of a retired Westinghouse senior manager. She had been Phi Beta Kappa at Wellesley, a graduate of the Yale School of Management, a congressional
... See moreJoan Didion • After Henry: Essays
Wow. BRUTAL words for her fellow liberals from Democratic strategist @JulieRoginsky on CNN:
“I’m going to speak some hard truths...We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us...When we address Latino voters...as Latinx, for instance, b/c that’s the politically correct thing to do, it... See more
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