Farewell, America
A newsletter from a longtime political analyst about the 2024 election and the battle to save democracy - posts that promise to challenge the conventional wisdom of the mainstream media.
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Evil is Rampant in the World. . .And America May Actually Be the Answer (opens the original)
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“Evil” is not a word you often see or hear in the legacy media. In fact, it is a word you never see or hear. I suppose it is regarded as too imprecise, too judgmental, too hyperbolic, too incendiary a word. The media are so trepidatious when it comes to evil that I doubt any American newspaper at the time ever called Hitler “evil.” The media – and a lot of ordinary people for that matter – prefer more temperate language, like misguided or wrong-headed or mistaken, which I think is a dangerous mo
The Republicans Have a Plan for Winning Elections: Make Voters Dumber (opens the original)
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The Republicans have a plan. It is a devious plan, a plan long in gestation, a plan that doesn’t attack and attempt to coopt our electoral system through suppressing votes, which is their usual method, but rather aims at something more alarming, a plan that is devised not just to win the midterm elections but elections henceforth, a plan that doubles, triples and quadruples down on the MAGAites, a plan that relies on this nation’s recent contempt for intelligence, information and fact to succeed
Why the Media Stink (opens the original)
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Et Tu, Atlantic?All sentient beings know that the legacy media have failed us and failed us big time. This is the most fraught period in American history, save for the Civil War. Everything we have held dear is at risk. The situation calls for alarm. It calls for action. It calls for every decent corner of the country to thwart the menace.But what have the legacy media given us? Tiresome drivel about the Democratic Party in “disarray” and its need to moderate (you want to talk about moderation,
There is Actually a Nadir to Trumpism, and I Think We Have Reached It (opens the original)
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It is difficult, well-nigh impossible, to find the very bottom of the Trump/MAGA degeneracy, since the administration is a veritable Mariana Trench of the shoddy, the smarmy, the salacious, and the sickening. It is equally difficult to land on one transgression that seems to characterize the Trump enterprise that has been destroying America for years now. But I think I have actually discovered the nadir that meets both requirements – something so reprehensible, so shameful, so deplorable that is
The Elites Will Try to Beat Troy Jackson. I Don't Think They Will Succeed (opens the original)
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The Republicans and their enablers in the media already have a narrative prepared for Maine’s Democratic senatorial nominee, Troy Jackson. It goes like this. The Democrats are a mess. The process of selecting a last-minute replacement for the party’s previous and now-disgraced nominee, Graham Platner, was a mess. In what everyone regards, rightly or not, as an existential election for Democrats’ chances of taking the Senate and tightening a noose around Donald Trump, the GOP has all the advantag
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