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Republicans Don't Belong in the WNBA | RealClearPolitics
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Republicans Don't Belong in the WNBA
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Last week, soon after Georgia chose its first Black senator, an idea began to circulate on Twitter: Perhaps the Reverend Raphael Warnock, who will be the 11th Black senator in United States history, should wear the WNBA’s signature orange hoodie when he is sworn in. After all, the women’s professional basketball league and its players share credit for Warnock’s victory.
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Trump's Phone Call Is What Coup Fever Looks Like | RealClearPolitics
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Trump's Phone Call Is What Coup Fever Looks Like
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Like the little boy haunted by ghosts in the horror movie The Sixth Sense, President Donald Trump sees dead people everywhere. He thinks at least 5,000 of them voted in Georgia during the presidential election and were part of a broader conspiracy that deprived him of a victory in the state.
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| 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
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Pelosi Is Right to Ask About the Nuclear Codes | RealClearPolitics
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Pelosi Is Right to Ask About the Nuclear Codes
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Pelosi Is Right to Ask About the Nuclear Codes
The past week has only reinforced his lack of fitness — a failing that could have catastrophic consequences.
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When asked for an example of how the Republican National Committee and President Trump expanded the party during the last four years, I like to cite Florida's...
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A New Generation of Diverse Leaders Helps Expand the GOP
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When asked for an example of how the Republican National Committee and President Trump expanded the party during the last four years, I like to cite Florida's newest Republican member of Congress, Byron Donalds.
In a story that could only happen in America, this Black American man born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn to a single mother of three went on to become a conservative Republican who ran for a congressional seat in the Sunshine State’s 19th District and won.
The actions of President Trump’s agenda to empower Black Americans, create more economic opportunities, address health challenges, reduce prescription drug prices, support school choice, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and charter schools, as well as enacting historic criminal justice reforms and Opportunity Zones, resonated with Donalds, his constituents, and millions of other Americans across the nation.
When Rep. Donalds (pictured) got to Washington, he had choices to make on staffing and was intentional in his commitment to find the best talent that represented America. To that end, Donalds hired a majority minority staff of men and women. The new congressman got his political start working for the late Herman Cain on his 2012 presidential campaign. In many ways, this is how you pay it forward by giving others an opportunity to serve in different positions and offices, just as he was given.
When I first read about his diverse staff, I was filled with pride to see the names of young Americans coming from different experiences and backgrounds with one focus – service. Donalds said, “Since being elected the next congressman of Florida’s 19th Congressional District, I have worked tirelessly to establish a staff dedicated to my steadfast commitment to serving my constituents with honor and distinction. … I am confident this diverse and talented group of professionals will follow in my promise to ensure our government remains of, by, and for the people.”
Personally, I was proud to see three Black Republican young men holding positions in his office as communications director, legislative correspondent and staff assistant. It reminded me of my start in politics, although these three have already had impressive careers.
I remember attending my first political fundraiser for then-Rep. J.C. Watts Jr., who offered me an internship in Washington, if I was able to get there. I was a young man involved in the Republican Party of Arizona serving in leadership for the Arizona Teenage Republicans. The AZ GOP took a chance on me: While in college I interned at the RNC in the political division and then at the White House. I did not come from great wealth or have family political connections in either party, but I was still given a chance and I am forever grateful.
My story, Rep. Donalds’ story, and so many others reflect the intentions of the Republican Party to reach out to voters of all backgrounds and communities. This is something we have not always succeeded at but we have made a renewed focus and commitment to continue to expand the Party of Opportunity, one that works for all Americans.
In 2020, the RNC and the Trump campaign were both intentional in their efforts to engage with diverse audiences, especially minorities, and they succeeded with historic gains from minority voters across the board, helping spur a surge of GOP women and racial minorities winning seats in Congress and at the state and local level. We now have a new generation of leaders who are providing fresh conservative input on how we message, engage and highlight our policies to the American people – especially to those who may be unaware of how specific policies impact their daily lives.
The RNC hired minorities to serve as regional engagement coordinators in leading our efforts in dozens of cities across the nation. They worked with the RNC and campaign staff to implement training, GOTV, and engagement events from our Black, Latino, and Asian community centers. Some of these coordinators never imagined working in politics at this level or thought it to be within reach, but they were inspired by the message of the Republican Party and President Trump and wanted to get involved.
The RNC invested in them, gave them a chance, and they led. These courageous new leaders are the future of the GOP. Everyone, no matter their background, has to be given that first chance to succeed – and this will continue.
The Republican Party has always been the party of freedom and opportunity. This party continues to live up to our founding and its history of empowerment of minorities and women. I’ve witnessed the growth and expansion each year. Mainstream media might not give us the credit, tell the story or celebrate our diversity – and that’s all right because we will quietly continue to grow, empower, and win.
Rep. Donalds is not the first Republican congressman to have a diverse team and he won’t be the last, but I am glad to give him recognition. More people are seeing the real diversity of the GOP at the RNC, state GOP offices, and with countless elected officials all over the nation.
I have always been proud of my party and am excited about our future. With so many more new faces, ideas, and energy focused on active involvement in our political process, we will continue to push for advancing the conservative cause of freedom and opportunities in America.
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Donalds (pictured) got to Washington, he had choices to make on staffing and was intentional in his commitment to find the best talent that represented America. To that end, Donalds hired a majority minority staff of men and women. The new congressman got his political start working for the late Herman Cain on his 2012 presidential campaign. In many ways, this is how you pay it forward by giving others an opportunity to serve in different positions and offices, just as he was given.\nWhen I first read about his diverse staff, I was filled with pride to see the names of young Americans coming from different experiences and backgrounds with one focus – service. Donalds said, “Since being elected the next congressman of Florida’s 19th Congressional District, I have worked tirelessly to establish a staff dedicated to my steadfast commitment to serving my constituents with honor and distinction. … I am confident this diverse and talented group of professionals will follow in my promise to ensure our government remains of, by, and for the people.”\nPersonally, I was proud to see three Black Republican young men holding positions in his office as communications director, legislative correspondent and staff assistant. It reminded me of my start in politics, although these three have already had impressive careers.\nI remember attending my first political fundraiser for then-Rep. J.C. Watts Jr., who offered me an internship in Washington, if I was able to get there. I was a young man involved in the Republican Party of Arizona serving in leadership for the Arizona Teenage Republicans. The AZ GOP took a chance on me: While in college I interned at the RNC in the political division and then at the White House. I did not come from great wealth or have family political connections in either party, but I was still given a chance and I am forever grateful.\nMy story, Rep. Donalds’ story, and so many others reflect the intentions of the Republican Party to reach out to voters of all backgrounds and communities. This is something we have not always succeeded at but we have made a renewed focus and commitment to continue to expand the Party of Opportunity, one that works for all Americans.\nIn 2020, the RNC and the Trump campaign were both intentional in their efforts to engage with diverse audiences, especially minorities, and they succeeded with historic gains from minority voters across the board, helping spur a surge of GOP women and racial minorities winning seats in Congress and at the state and local level. We now have a new generation of leaders who are providing fresh conservative input on how we message, engage and highlight our policies to the American people – especially to those who may be unaware of how specific policies impact their daily lives.\nThe RNC hired minorities to serve as regional engagement coordinators in leading our efforts in dozens of cities across the nation. They worked with the RNC and campaign staff to implement training, GOTV, and engagement events from our Black, Latino, and Asian community centers. Some of these coordinators never imagined working in politics at this level or thought it to be within reach, but they were inspired by the message of the Republican Party and President Trump and wanted to get involved.\nThe RNC invested in them, gave them a chance, and they led. These courageous new leaders are the future of the GOP. Everyone, no matter their background, has to be given that first chance to succeed – and this will continue.\nThe Republican Party has always been the party of freedom and opportunity. This party continues to live up to our founding and its history of empowerment of minorities and women. I’ve witnessed the growth and expansion each year. Mainstream media might not give us the credit, tell the story or celebrate our diversity – and that’s all right because we will quietly continue to grow, empower, and win.\nRep. Donalds is not the first Republican congressman to have a diverse team and he won’t be the last, but I am glad to give him recognition. More people are seeing the real diversity of the GOP at the RNC, state GOP offices, and with countless elected officials all over the nation.\nI have always been proud of my party and am excited about our future. With so many more new faces, ideas, and energy focused on active involvement in our political process, we will continue to push for advancing the conservative cause of freedom and opportunities in America.",
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Will Democrats Become Panicky Reactionaries? | RealClearPolitics
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The lesson of the Capitol riots is to change the power structure, not to embrace it
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Chicago's Other Epidemic: A Plague of Juvenile Carjackers | RealClearPolitics
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Chicago's Other Epidemic: A Plague of Juvenile Carjackers
Edirorial: Springfield needs to pass legislation to stop the trend of juvenile carjacking.
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Not since the British stormed the United States Capitol has it been invaded by those out to end the American constitutional system. But it happened this week...
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Not since the British stormed the United States Capitol has it been invaded by those out to end the American constitutional system. But it happened this week at the hands of American citizens. Encouraged by President Donald Trump -- and let's not mince words here; he told them to march on the Capitol -- a mixed group of rabid, malcontented supporters stormed through barricades, smashed windows and took up residence in the chair belonging to the President of the Senate, who is also the Vice President of the United States.
The insurrectionists, having constructed the gallows and hung a noose, entered the Capitol calling for Vice President Mike Pence to show himself. They did so after the President tweeted Pence had lacked the courage to throw out the Electoral College. Then the protestors, various members of Congress, television hosts and others lied and said it was probably antifa. The man with the painted face and horned hat calling for the Vice President to show himself, a key organizer of the insurrection, was a well-known Trump supporter. He had his picture taken standing next to a few neo-Nazis. Surely there were some left-wing anarchists there, too. But this was organized by Trump supporters and egged on by the President.
Why were they there? For two months, the President, various talking heads, news networks, pundits, grifters, charlatans and conmen perpetuated a lie. They claimed, with no credible evidence, that the presidential election had been stolen. They have not yet offered the names of anyone who actually voted fraudulently. The President's legal team went to court in multiple states and denied any fraud under oath. Trump-appointed judges threw out the frivolous claims. Now some of the loudest voices are being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for defamation. One might hope Dominion bankrupts some of these fledgling propaganda networks that fanned the flames of conspiracy and lies.
In the United States Capitol, a woman died after being shot while storming the building. She died because she had been duped into believing the election was stolen. A patriot and Air Force veteran who had served multiple tours, she wanted to defend her country from what she believed was a stolen, rigged election that undermined both the will of the people and the democratic processes of the nation.
It was actually her undermining the will of the people and the democratic processes of the nation, but she died believing the lies and believing that her cause was noble. The whole thing was tragic, unnecessary and based on the irresponsible lies of a group of sore losers and their abettors. Those losers, then ashamed of what they did, tried to blame antifa or said things like, "What about the media coverage of the summer riots?"
"What abouting" what the nation saw on Wednesday is shameful. As someone who condemned the summer riots and criticized the media coverage, we should at least acknowledge the summer rage came from outrage over the deaths of citizens at the hands of the police and the Wednesday rage that led to deaths was based on outrage fueled by lies.
The truth, like it or not, is that the President of the United States stoked the passions and fanned the flames of a mob that stormed the United States Capitol in a physical attack on the separation of powers designed to disrupt the democratic processes and institutions of our republic. If the Congress will not act because of partisan passions, the partisans and politicians have failed, and our system is as broken as those storming the Capitol claimed.
If the first branch of government will not act to remove the President who sent the mob to shut them down, the first branch of government is shutting itself down. This is a bigger issue than a single President, but big issues require big moments of leadership, and we are now a nation of small spines in our political class. Small spines do not lead; they are led. And they are being led by a mob of malcontents more comfortable wrapped in lies than truth.
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with incitement of insurrection...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
With the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump. The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after violent pro-Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol, urged on by the president’s calls for them to “fight like hell” against the election results.
Ten Republicans fled Trump, joining Democrats who said he needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a “clear and present danger” if Congress should leave him unchecked before Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20.
Trump is the only U.S. president to be twice impeached.
The Capitol insurrection stunned and angered lawmakers, who were sent scrambling for safety as the mob descended, and it revealed the fragility of the nation’s history of peaceful transfers of power. The riot also forced a reckoning among some Republicans, who have stood by Trump throughout his presidency and largely allowed him to spread false attacks against the integrity of the 2020 election.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked Abraham Lincoln and the Bible, imploring lawmakers to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign “and domestic.”
She said of Trump: “He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”
Holed up at the White House, watching the proceedings on TV, Trump took no responsibility for the bloody riot seen around the world, but issued a statement urging “NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind” to disrupt Biden’s ascension to the White House.
In the face of the accusations against him and with the FBI warning of more violence, Trump said, “That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.”
Trump was first impeached by the House in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine, but the Senate voted in 2020 acquit. He is the first to be impeached twice. None has been convicted by the Senate, but Republicans said Wednesday that could change in the rapidly shifting political environment as officeholders, donors, big business and others peel away from the defeated president.
The soonest Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell would start an impeachment trial is next Tuesday, the day before Trump is already set to leave the White House, McConnell’s office said. The legislation is also intended to prevent Trump from ever running again.
McConnell believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and considers the Democrats’ impeachment drive an opportunity to reduce the divisive, chaotic president’s hold on the GOP, a Republican strategist told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
McConnell told major donors over the weekend that he was through with Trump, said the strategist, who demanded anonymity to describe McConnell’s conversations.
In a note to colleagues Wednesday, McConnell said he had “not made a final decision on how I will vote.”
Unlike his first time, Trump faces this impeachment as a weakened leader, having lost his own reelection as well as the Senate Republican majority.
Even Trump ally Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, shifted his position and said Wednesday the president bears responsibility for the horrifying day at the Capitol.
In making a case for the “high crimes and misdemeanors” demanded in the Constitution, the four-page impeachment resolution approved Wednesday relies on Trump’s own incendiary rhetoric and the falsehoods he spread about Biden’s election victory, including at a rally near the White House on the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
A Capitol Police officer died from injuries suffered in the riot, and police shot and killed a woman during the siege. Three other people died in what authorities said were medical emergencies. The riot delayed the tally of Electoral College votes that was the last step in finalizing Biden’s victory.
Ten Republican lawmakers, including third-ranking House GOP leader Liz Cheney of Wyoming, voted to impeach Trump, cleaving the Republican leadership, and the party itself.
Cheney, whose father is the former Republican vice president, said of Trump’s actions summoning the mob that “there has never been a greater betrayal by a President” of his office.
Trump was said to be livid with perceived disloyalty from McConnell and Cheney.
With the team around Trump hollowed out and his Twitter account silenced by the social media company, the president was deeply frustrated that he could not hit back, according to White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing who weren’t authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
From the White House, Trump leaned on Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to push Republican senators to resist, while chief of staff Mark Meadows called some of his former colleagues on Capitol Hill.
The president’s sturdy popularity with the GOP lawmakers’ constituents still had some sway, and most House Republicans voted not to impeach.
Security was exceptionally tight at the Capitol, with tall fences around the complex. Metal-detector screenings were required for lawmakers entering the House chamber, where a week earlier lawmakers huddled inside as police, guns drawn, barricade the door from rioters.
“We are debating this historic measure at a crime scene,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
During the debate, some Republicans repeated the falsehoods spread by Trump about the election and argued that the president has been treated unfairly by Democrats from the day he took office.
Other Republicans argued the impeachment was a rushed sham and complained about a double standard applied to his supporters but not to the liberal left. Some simply appealed for the nation to move on.
Rep. Tom McClintock of California said, “Every movement has a lunatic fringe.”
Yet Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo. and others recounted the harrowing day as rioters pounded on the chamber door trying to break in. Some called it a “coup” attempt.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., contended that Trump was “capable of starting a civil war.”
Conviction and removal of Trump would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate, which will be evenly divided. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska over the weekend in calling for Trump to “go away as soon as possible.”
Fending off concerns that an impeachment trial would bog down his first days in office, Biden is encouraging senators to divide their time between taking taking up his priorities of confirming his nominees and approving COVID-19 relief while also conducting the trial.
The impeachment bill draws from Trump’s own false statements about his election defeat to Biden. Judges across the country, including some nominated by Trump, have repeatedly dismissed cases challenging the election results, and former Attorney General William Barr, a Trump ally, has said there was no sign of widespread fraud.
The House had first tried to persuade Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke their authority under the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Pence declined to do so, but the House passed the resolution anyway.
The impeachment bill also details Trump’s pressure on state officials in Georgia to “find” him more votes.
While some have questioned impeaching the president so close to the end of his term, there is precedent. In 1876, during the Ulysses Grant administration, War Secretary William Belknap was impeached by the House the day he resigned, and the Senate convened a trial months later. He was acquitted.
Full Coverage: Trump impeachment
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Andrew Taylor and Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after violent pro-Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol, urged on by the president’s calls for them to “fight like hell” against the election results.\nTen Republicans fled Trump, joining Democrats who said he needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a “clear and present danger” if Congress should leave him unchecked before Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20.\nTrump is the only U.S. president to be twice impeached.\nThe Capitol insurrection stunned and angered lawmakers, who were sent scrambling for safety as the mob descended, and it revealed the fragility of the nation’s history of peaceful transfers of power. The riot also forced a reckoning among some Republicans, who have stood by Trump throughout his presidency and largely allowed him to spread false attacks against the integrity of the 2020 election.\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked Abraham Lincoln and the Bible, imploring lawmakers to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign “and domestic.”\nShe said of Trump: “He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”\nHoled up at the White House, watching the proceedings on TV, Trump took no responsibility for the bloody riot seen around the world, but issued a statement urging “NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind” to disrupt Biden’s ascension to the White House.\nIn the face of the accusations against him and with the FBI warning of more violence, Trump said, “That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.”\nTrump was first impeached by the House in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine, but the Senate voted in 2020 acquit. He is the first to be impeached twice. None has been convicted by the Senate, but Republicans said Wednesday that could change in the rapidly shifting political environment as officeholders, donors, big business and others peel away from the defeated president.\nThe soonest Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell would start an impeachment trial is next Tuesday, the day before Trump is already set to leave the White House, McConnell’s office said. The legislation is also intended to prevent Trump from ever running again.\nMcConnell believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and considers the Democrats’ impeachment drive an opportunity to reduce the divisive, chaotic president’s hold on the GOP, a Republican strategist told The Associated Press on Wednesday.\nMcConnell told major donors over the weekend that he was through with Trump, said the strategist, who demanded anonymity to describe McConnell’s conversations.\nIn a note to colleagues Wednesday, McConnell said he had “not made a final decision on how I will vote.”\nUnlike his first time, Trump faces this impeachment as a weakened leader, having lost his own reelection as well as the Senate Republican majority.\nEven Trump ally Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, shifted his position and said Wednesday the president bears responsibility for the horrifying day at the Capitol.\nIn making a case for the “high crimes and misdemeanors” demanded in the Constitution, the four-page impeachment resolution approved Wednesday relies on Trump’s own incendiary rhetoric and the falsehoods he spread about Biden’s election victory, including at a rally near the White House on the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.\nA Capitol Police officer died from injuries suffered in the riot, and police shot and killed a woman during the siege. Three other people died in what authorities said were medical emergencies. The riot delayed the tally of Electoral College votes that was the last step in finalizing Biden’s victory.\nTen Republican lawmakers, including third-ranking House GOP leader Liz Cheney of Wyoming, voted to impeach Trump, cleaving the Republican leadership, and the party itself.\nCheney, whose father is the former Republican vice president, said of Trump’s actions summoning the mob that “there has never been a greater betrayal by a President” of his office.\nTrump was said to be livid with perceived disloyalty from McConnell and Cheney.\nWith the team around Trump hollowed out and his Twitter account silenced by the social media company, the president was deeply frustrated that he could not hit back, according to White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing who weren’t authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.\nFrom the White House, Trump leaned on Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to push Republican senators to resist, while chief of staff Mark Meadows called some of his former colleagues on Capitol Hill.\nThe president’s sturdy popularity with the GOP lawmakers’ constituents still had some sway, and most House Republicans voted not to impeach.\nSecurity was exceptionally tight at the Capitol, with tall fences around the complex. Metal-detector screenings were required for lawmakers entering the House chamber, where a week earlier lawmakers huddled inside as police, guns drawn, barricade the door from rioters.\n“We are debating this historic measure at a crime scene,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.\nDuring the debate, some Republicans repeated the falsehoods spread by Trump about the election and argued that the president has been treated unfairly by Democrats from the day he took office.\nOther Republicans argued the impeachment was a rushed sham and complained about a double standard applied to his supporters but not to the liberal left. Some simply appealed for the nation to move on.\nRep. Tom McClintock of California said, “Every movement has a lunatic fringe.”\nYet Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo. and others recounted the harrowing day as rioters pounded on the chamber door trying to break in. Some called it a “coup” attempt.\nRep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., contended that Trump was “capable of starting a civil war.”\nConviction and removal of Trump would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate, which will be evenly divided. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska over the weekend in calling for Trump to “go away as soon as possible.”\nFending off concerns that an impeachment trial would bog down his first days in office, Biden is encouraging senators to divide their time between taking taking up his priorities of confirming his nominees and approving COVID-19 relief while also conducting the trial.\nThe impeachment bill draws from Trump’s own false statements about his election defeat to Biden. Judges across the country, including some nominated by Trump, have repeatedly dismissed cases challenging the election results, and former Attorney General William Barr, a Trump ally, has said there was no sign of widespread fraud.\nThe House had first tried to persuade Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke their authority under the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Pence declined to do so, but the House passed the resolution anyway.\nThe impeachment bill also details Trump’s pressure on state officials in Georgia to “find” him more votes.\nWhile some have questioned impeaching the president so close to the end of his term, there is precedent. In 1876, during the Ulysses Grant administration, War Secretary William Belknap was impeached by the House the day he resigned, and the Senate convened a trial months later. He was acquitted.\nFull Coverage: Trump impeachment\n___\nAssociated Press writers Kevin Freking, Andrew Taylor and Zeke Miller contributed to this report.",
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Race and Police Shootings: Narrative Before Facts | RealClearPolitics
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When will the media acknowledge their role in spreading false and inflammatory stories about police shootings?
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Biden's Trans Order Undoes Decades of Feminist Progress | RealClearPolitics
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The Biden presidency, we’re told, is a historic win for women. With Kamala Harris as his Madam Vice President and a record number of women in his Cabinet, the new commander in chief is advancing the female cause. “This is what breaking the glass ceiling looks like,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar enthused on Inauguration Day.
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America's Elites Unwilling or Unable to Defend Civilization | RealClearPolitics
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America's Elites Unwilling or Unable to Defend Civilization
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Our grandees seem too exhausted, too guilty, or too ignorant to pass on and improve the civilization they inherited for others to come.
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"Our grandees seem too exhausted, too guilty, or too ignorant to pass on and improve the civilization they inherited for others to come.",
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For four years, we were informed by our establishment media that President Donald Trump's behavior was
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This Is Not Normal
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For four years, we were informed by our establishment media that President Donald Trump's behavior was "not normal." The abnormality of Trump's behavior became a near rallying cry for the self-appointed heroes of journalism, who spent every waking hour poring over his bizarre tweets and his bloviating self-absorption. The media dedicated themselves to preventing Trump's supposed normalization.
Now, the media inform us, we have been graced by the most normal normal person to have ever normalled: President Joe Biden. Biden, they proclaim, is utterly boring, nondescript, barely worthy of coverage. His administration, too, is paradigmatically normal. Yascha Mounk of The Atlantic tweets, "It is so nice to have a boring President." Alleged media watchdog Brian Stelter asked this week whether Biden is "making the news boring again," adding, "The Biden White House is clearly a break from the chaos and incompetence of Trump world."
For his part, Biden obviously revels in this sort of coverage. This week, his favorite ice cream flavor (chocolate chip) was tweeted out as well as a retweet of first lady Jill Biden's announcement that Champ and Major, the new first pets, had entered the White House.
On a personal level, Biden is clearly more "normal" than Trump -- although treating Biden, a career politician worth nearly $10 million, as the height of normality is rather stunning. The goal for the establishment media isn't to point out merely that Biden is a sort of American Everyman. It's to use that supposed normalcy to disguise the fact that his agenda is absolutely abnormal.
The dirty little secret of the Trump administration is that despite Trump's personal abnormality, his agenda was well in line with past precedent, and with mainstream American opinions on everything from taxes to military policy. Trump did not radically shift American policy. Biden will. Within the first five days of his presidency, he issued 30 executive orders, compared with four for Trump, five for Barack Obama and zero for George W. Bush. Those executive orders included endorsement of radical reinterpretation of American history; killing the Keystone XL pipeline, along with its attendant estimated 11,000 American jobs; forcing the military to allow troops to undergo gender reassignment surgery; and forcing federally funded institutions to allow biological men who identify as transgender to compete alongside biological women, among others. He is reportedly pursuing an immigration plan directed toward reopening America's borders. He has staffed his Cabinet by intersectional box-checking.
Biden's policy is indeed radical. But because Biden is presented as a normal person, we're supposed to ignore all of that. We're supposed to simply be grateful for the "return to normalcy" -- complete with caving to the teachers unions that seek to keep schools closed indeterminately, reentering a long-dead deal with the Iranian theocracy, firing government staffers with whom he disagrees and lying openly about the vaccine distribution plan he inherited.
Meanwhile, our media pat themselves on the back. It's rare to see a profession declare itself irrelevant, but that's what many in the media are doing these days. According to Stelter, it's "refreshing" that Biden's team promises accountability and transparency. According to Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post, the media must learn their lesson from the Trump era and cover Democrats more sycophantically.
Joe Biden may be a relatively normal guy. But none of this is normal. And pretending it is represents just another way for the media to reject legitimate criticisms of an administration seeking radicalism right off the bat.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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Painting the White House Green | RealClearPolitics
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President Biden has wasted no time presenting an audacious program for solving climate change. Taming forces of nature may prove harder, and more expensive, than it looks.
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She Did It: Kamala Harris Makes History | RealClearPolitics
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She Did It: Kamala Harris Makes History
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When I interviewed Vice President–elect Kamala Harris last year at the Essence Festival, she had plenty of wisdom to share about the challenges a Black woman faces when pursuing national office. “Some might think that breaking barriers means you start off on one side of the barrier,” said Harris, who was running for president at the time, “and then you just turn up on the other side of the barrier.
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"When I interviewed Vice President–elect Kamala Harris last year at the Essence Festival, she had plenty of wisdom to share about the challenges a Black woman faces when pursuing national office. “Some might think that breaking barriers means you start off on one side of the barrier,” said Harris, who was running for president at the time, “and then you just turn up on the other side of the barrier.",
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How Big Tech's Liberal Speech Control Factored Into Biden Win | RealClearPolitics
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How Big Tech's Liberal Speech Control Factored Into Biden Win
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Speak one's mind is an abiding American tradition. It is becoming rarer, though, as censorship intensifies.
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Biden Needs to Move Fast and Fix Stuff | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Needs to Move Fast and Fix Stuff
Or his ability to help Americans will be doomed from the start.
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A Nation on Edge Braces for This Week's Transfer of Power | RealClearPolitics
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The nation is entering inauguration week with an unnerving police and military presence guarding the vestiges of democracy -- with Americans holding their breath as federal officials warn about threats of violence and potential unrest that have clouded preparations for the ceremonies that will usher President-elect Joe Biden into the White House and send President Donald Trump back to private life.
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"The nation is entering inauguration week with an unnerving police and military presence guarding the vestiges of democracy -- with Americans holding their breath as federal officials warn about threats of violence and potential unrest that have clouded preparations for the ceremonies that will usher President-elect Joe Biden into the White House and send President Donald Trump back to private life.",
"A Nation on Edge Braces for This Week's Transfer of Power",
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Pelosi and Democrats Move to Rig the House Rules | RealClearPolitics
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Everyone keeps telling me I need to move on. But I don't think I can, nor do I think the conservative movement can.
For the past four years, a largely...
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Everyone keeps telling me I need to move on. But I don't think I can, nor do I think the conservative movement can.
For the past four years, a largely anonymous group on the internet has been seeding a global conspiracy that claimed an international group of child sex traffickers was scheming with the American political deep state and former President Donald Trump intended to destroy it as God's chosen.
When the Capitol was stormed on Jan. 6, 2021, people were carrying signs about saving the children. People went looking not just for members of Congress they thought were complicit in stealing election but also for those they thought were complicit in a globally coordinated human trafficking ring.
Over the last two weeks, QAnon voices have insisted Trump would remain President. Rumors spread that the President and military would work together to round up the bad guys. Some said the President would allow President Joe Biden's inauguration to go forward and then storm Washington with soldiers after all the bad guys had exposed themselves.
Elderly Americans, fueled by internet gossip, were filling up bathtubs with water to protect from coming power outages. My sister's neighbor in Tennessee was telling the neighborhood to stock up with food. A listener in Atlanta said his mother was withdrawing large sums from the bank for when Trump shut them all down. A pastor called me concerned with members of his congregation sending him things that seemed very off. They were conspiracy theories related the President derived from QAnon. This is far more pervasive than I thought, and it has seeped into the conservative movement.
North Georgia voters elected a congresswoman who thought a school shooting was a false flag, 9/11 was an inside job and who believed the QAnon nonsense. Last week, driving to Atlanta, I passed two vehicles. One had a Q sticker, and another had a homemade sticker reading "WWG1WGA," which is a QAnon slogan for, "Where We Go One, We Go All."
Hosts on news outlets and talk radio promised krakens, a coming storm, and told people to trust the plan. A mob stormed the Capitol looking to hang former Vice President Mike Pence as a traitor on the words of QAnon anonymous accounts and Trump's claims of betrayal. A group of conservatives requested Republicans in Congress reject the Electoral College votes from several states and instead allow state legislatures to replace those votes. Just ask yourself what the conservative reaction would have been had Biden done that.
The conservative movement cannot get back on its feet unless there is an accounting for this stuff. The conservative movement needs to clean itself up. This is not something for the outside, the media, the left or any one person. The left wants to purge anyone from polite society who supported Trump. This is unacceptable and as authoritarian as the left claimed Trump was. But conservatives need to deal with this lunacy in-house.
There has been a sustained effort to lie to Americans and, in particular, conservatives and Trump supporters. Many so internalized it that they thought God would grant a miracle last week and keep Trump as President. Some still think he is coming back. One QAnon adherent, on a chat board, speculated that, like Jesus, Trump would return in three days. More than one pastor has told his congregation that Trump would remain as President because God willed it.
None of what was predicted was true. Goal posts kept being moved. People kept getting angrier. Some in the conservative movement tried to harness or direct the anger and energy. It all turned out badly on Jan. 6, and now no one wants to make eye contact with what happened.
A political movement this unhealthy and this wedded to lie cannot and should not survive. There must be an internal accounting within the conservative movement, and the people who pushed the kraken nonsense and the QAnon nonsense need to repent. We conservatives must clean up our own house, or the voters will do it for us.
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Good morning, it’s Monday Jan. 11, 2021. The sun is up in the nation’s capital as I write these words, but the dark fallout continues from the mob violence wreaked by President Trump’s supporters in the hallowed halls of Congress last week. Another member of the U.S. Capitol Police has died, for one thing. Meanwhile, official Washington is wrestling with how to get through the next nine days.
This is not what presidential transitions are supposed to look like. All of Donald Trump’s predecessors -- from George Washington through Barack Obama -- realized it had to be done peacefully. Not this guy.
To be sure, others have behaved badly. President Benjamin Harrison sabotaged the economy after losing his rematch with Grover Cleveland. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt also put partisanship ahead of the people by rebuffing Herbert Hoover’s overtures in the winter of 1932-1933, as the Great Depression worsened. Until now, James Buchanan was universally considered in a class by himself for feckless behavior by an outgoing president. As he dithered, the Confederacy took shape, the result being that the 1860-1861 transition is universally ranked as the worst.
In inciting a mob to march on the Capitol, however, Trump may have earned the dubious distinction of eclipsing Buchanan: After all, the 15th U.S. president didn’t personally call for Fort Sumter to be shelled.
In a moment, courtesy of Ronald Reagan, I’ll offer an example of the soaring rhetoric that the occasion demands. I’d first direct you to our front page, which aggregates, as it does each day, an array of columns and stories spanning the political spectrum. This morning’s lineup includes Tae Kim (Bloomberg News), John Cassidy (The New Yorker), John Harris (Politico), and Liz Peek (Fox). We also offer a complement of original material from RCP’s reporters and contributors, including the following:
* * *
Nationalize Facebook, Twitter to Preserve Free Speech. Frank Miele explains why this provocative idea could end impediments to the free flow of information.
RCP Takeaway Podcast. In the latest episode, A.B. Stoddard joins Tom Bevan and me in discussing last week’s events in Washington.
Excerpt From “Center Stage,” a Political Thriller. Sample the first chapter of Wayne Avrashow’s new work, from the RealClear Publishing imprint.
The Political Struggle for Control of Bank Loans. Progressives increasingly impose their will on big business through banks controlling their loan lifelines, John Hirschauer reports for RealClearInvestigations.
Trump’s Last Chance to Release “Russian Collusion” Documents. Also at RCI, Aaron Mate lays out critical issues that could be cleared up before the president leaves office next week.
Democratic Trifecta Promises Tax Increases. At RealClearMarkets, Andrew Wilford expects changes in capital gains, income and corporate tax rates now that control of the Senate has shifted.
We Need a Humane New Deal for Animals. At RealClearPolicy, Robin Ganzert argues that conditions endemic to wet markets around the world were proven in 2020 to be inseparably linked to human lives, which ought to prompt action.
* * *
On this date in 1989, Ronald Wilson Reagan addressed the American people for the last time as president. In contrast to Donald Trump, Reagan was leaving in triumph. In 1984, he’d won a second term in an actual -- not a fictional -- landslide, and in 1988 had seen his loyal vice president succeed him: a third term for “the Gipper,” crowed some Reaganites. In his farewell address, Reagan didn’t boast about any of this. He did extol what he viewed as the policy successes of his administration, while deflecting credit to the countrymen themselves.
“And in all of that time I won a nickname, ‘The Great Communicator,’” he noted. “But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: It was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation -- from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries.”
As he ended his speech, Reagan left us with his vision of America -- one nearly diametrically opposed to what we’ve heard in the past five years.
“I’ve spoken of ‘the shining city’ all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind, it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.”
Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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President Biden does not want the Senate to kill the legislative filibuster.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed to RealClearPolitics during a Friday press briefing that the new president remains opposed to abolishing the parliamentary procedure that requires the Senate to meet a 60-vote threshold on most legislation.
“The president’s position hasn’t changed,” Psaki told RCP after dodging the same question on Thursday and as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell remain stalled in negotiations over how best to share power in a chamber split 50-50.
The president has weighed in personally on those negotiations, she added, saying that “in conversations with both now-Leader Schumer and Senator McConnell that they need to have their conversations, of course, but he is eager to move his [COVID] rescue plan forward.” What Psaki didn’t say: Whether Biden would urge Democrats to take abolishing the filibuster off the table. They have balked at that request from McConnell so far, showing little interest in giving in to his demands as they take the reins of power.
“Chuck Schumer is the majority leader and he should be treated like majority leader. We can get s--- done around here and we ought to be focused on getting stuff done,” Sen. Jon Tester told Politico. “If we don’t, the inmates are going to be running this ship,” the Montana Democrat added.
And Democrats really do want to get big things done. Along with Biden in the White House, they control both chambers of Congress for the first time in more than a decade. Immigration. Climate change. The economy. Those are just some of the areas where they hope to push big-picture policy reforms into law. Republicans see the filibuster as their best tool to slowing much of that agenda should compromises fail. Democrats, meanwhile, say they don’t have concrete plans to get rid of the procedural tool but aren’t prepared to take it off the table. Because of the stakes, the subsequent debate has already been dubbed “the defining battle of Biden’s presidency.”
Psaki hesitated to weigh in on that contentious issue during her second briefing of the new administration. Reporters from both NBC and Politico pressed the newly minted press secretary on the question Thursday.
"I don't think I heard an answer about whether the president supports keeping the filibuster, where he sits on that. Has he talked to Senator Schumer about that?” asked Anita Kumar of Politico.
Responded Psaki: “The president has been clear he wants to work with members of both parties and find bipartisan paths forward. I don’t have any more conversations to read out for you at this point in time."
Pressed again, she added, "I don’t think I have more to add to my answer.”
Biden has defended the traditions of the Senate, where he served for more than three decades. Asked during the campaign if he was open to ending the filibuster to circumvent Republican opposition, he told reporters, “It is going to depend on how obstreperous they become.”
In an interview with the New York Times last year, Biden was asked point-blank about that issue and others: “Speaking of those other candidates, several of them have proposed major structural reforms to our government and to our democracy. These include abolishing the Electoral College, expanding the size of the Supreme Court, setting term limits for justices, abolishing the legislative filibuster. Which, if any of these, do you support?”
His answer was one word: “none.”
When RCP asked about this Times interview specifically, Psaki said, “He has spoken to this many times. His position has not changed.”
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A recall effort targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom is escalating and has grown from a quixotic quest among a few Republicans to a campaign that stands a chance of coming to a vote in the Democrat-dominated state.
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The Culture Wars Have Barely Begun | RealClearPolitics
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Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip this last opportunity to stomp him and his movement to death.
On Sunday,...
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Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip this last opportunity to stomp him and his movement to death.
On Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a startling ultimatum:
Either Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment, declare the president "unfit" for office, and remove him within 24 hours, or House Democrats will vote to impeach him again.
As the Senate, which would have to hear the case and hold the trial, does not meet again until Jan. 19, the day before Joe Biden is inaugurated, what is going on here? It sounds absurd, like rushing to hang a man who is going to die the next day.
But such is the blind hatred of Pelosi's House for Donald Trump.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina suggests holding off sending a bill of impeachment to the Senate for 100 days, to give Biden a chance to get his appointees confirmed, and then indict and convict Trump of sedition when he is a private citizen.
What would be the purpose of impeaching a president who hasn't been president for three months?
Answer: A conviction would strip Republicans of the right to reelect the man who got the largest number of votes in their party's history.
House Democrats want veto power over whom Republicans can nominate. And this is the crowd that does not cease to bray about its devotion to "democracy."
What are the specific grounds for impeaching Trump?
In the first draft of the resolution of impeachment, apparently, the crime is "incitement to insurrection."
Yet, in his Wednesday speech on the mall, Trump declared, "We're going to cheer on brave senators and congressmen and -women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them."
Trump added, "Everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
Nowhere in Trump's remarks was there a call to violence or to invade the Capitol building, or to engage in the mob criminality that took place under the Capitol dome Wednesday afternoon.
But the effort to disgrace and drive Trump from an office he will vacate in 10 days is only a part of the general purge that is underway against conservatives, Republicans and Trumpists.
Twitter and Facebook -- the social media megaphones Trump has used to communicate with some 80 million followers -- have terminated the president's personal accounts.
Apple, Amazon and Google have cut ties to the social media website Parler, which is popular among conservatives.
The goal of Big Tech is censorship -- to circumscribe Trump's capacity to communicate with his followers, and then to cripple the capacity of the right to communicate with one another.
And this is being applauded by individuals who see themselves as acolytes of the First Amendment.
Now calls are coming from home-state newspapers and colleagues for Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to resign from the Senate. And for what?
During Mike Pence's reading of the count during a joint session on Jan. 6, Cruz and Hawley called for debate on the electoral vote counts of Arizona and Pennsylvania.
What Hawley and Cruz did was not only permissible under the statute, it was also supported by more than 100 GOP members of the House.
Now, Cumulus Media, which has more than 400 radio stations and employs some of the most popular conservative talk-radio hosts in the nation, has warned its on-air personalities to stop suggesting the election of 2020 was stolen from Trump -- or face termination.
Said Brian Philips, vice president of content at Cumulus, in an internal memo: We "will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved and there are no alternate acceptable 'paths.'"
"If you transgress this policy," says Philips, "you can expect to separate from the company immediately."
Major corporations have begun to instruct their Political Action Committees to halt contributions to Republican legislators who support Trump. And some of Trump's Cabinet officers and White House staff have bailed out on him.
"Count your friends when you're down," Richard Nixon said.
On Jan. 21, Democrats will control the Senate, the House and the White House. Big Tech, Big Business, Big Media will all be on board.
They will be led, however, by a president and vice president who are in their offices not because of the great campaign they conducted and the brilliant case they made -- but because Americans voted in the most massive turnout in history, 74 million for Trump and 81 million against Trump.
As for the GOP, it should follow in these difficult days the counsel of LBJ when things were going bad: "Just hunker down like a mule in a hailstorm. And let the wild wind blow. And the sun will come out again in the morning."
In two years, the pendulum will swing back to the right, for it now has nowhere else to go.
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My January 6 Nightmare | RealClearPolitics
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With Georgia Blue, Moderates Will Rule | RealClearPolitics
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We're unlikely to see the lurch to the far left that Republicans railed about during the campaign.
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Why Covid Has Run Amok in Los Angeles | RealClearPolitics
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Why Covid Has Run Amok in Los Angeles
The jam-packed living arrangements of frontline workers in an unaffordable housing market are partly to blame.
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How Do We Rebuild Our Democracy? | RealClearPolitics
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How Do We Rebuild Our Democracy?
The ideals of the nation were in flames last week.
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Trump's Legacy: Republicans Now Represent America's Workers | RealClearPolitics
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The most important and least acknowledged part of President Trump's legacy is that he has presided over a fundamental realignment of our two great political parties.
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Cancel Culture Has No Place Whatsoever in Business | RealClearPolitics
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One of the beauties of commerce and markets is that they require us to work alongside people with whom we disagree.
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A Swift Impeachment Attempt Would Damage Constitution | RealClearPolitics
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Thank Goodness Biden Is Lifting Trump Abortion Gag Rule | RealClearPolitics
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The so-called Mexico City policy had blocked healthcare providers that get U.S. aid from providing abortion advice and services overseas.
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Donald Trump: The Inciter-in-Chief | RealClearPolitics
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On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the East Portico of the Capitol to deliver his first Inaugural Address. The nation was collapsing, the Southern slave states seceding. Word of an assassination conspiracy forced Lincoln to travel to the event under military guard. The Capitol building itself, sheathed in scaffolding, provided an easy metaphor for an unfinished republic. The immense bronze sculpture known as the Statue of Freedom had not yet been placed on the dome. It was still being cast on the outskirts of Washington.
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Communist China Is Preparing to Eat Biden's Lunch | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's Destructive Plan to Tax and Regulate | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's Destructive Plan to Tax and Regulate
The incoming Biden administration looks to roll back Trump-era policies.
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an orderly...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an “orderly transition on January 20th” after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump’s acknowledgment came after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill as a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building and unleashed unprecedented scenes of mayhem as it tried to halt the peaceful transition of power. Members of Congress were forced into hiding, offices were ransacked, and the formal congressional tally halted for more than six hours.
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a statement posted to Twitter by his social media director. His own account had been locked by the company for posting messages that appeared to justify the assault on the seat of the nation’s democracy.
Trump added, “While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”
The statement was the first time Trump formally acknowledged his loss after spending the last two months refusing to concede and lobbing baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud, even though his own Justice Department, federal courts and state governments have said repeatedly the vote was carried out freely and fairly.
Trump’s refusal to accept reality and his incendiary rhetoric reached a breaking point Wednesday when his supporters violently occupied the Capitol in one of the most jarring scenes ever to unfold in a seat of American political power. Authorities said four people died during the violence, including one woman who was shot by an officer outside the House chamber.
Trump had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol to protest lawmakers’ actions, and later appeared to excuse the violent occupation by the mob, which forced its way inside and clashed with police.
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” Trump wrote in a message that was later deleted by Twitter. He added, “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”
Trump’s response to the violence underscored his monthslong obsession with trying to overturn the results of the election. He has spent the final days of his presidency angrily stewing and lashing out at Republicans for perceived disloyalty while refusing to acknowledge his loss or concede.
Trump’s statement could not be posted on his Twitter or Facebook feeds because both accounts had been blocked from posting.
Trump spent much of Wednesday afternoon watching the insurrection on television from his private dining room off the Oval Office. But aside from sparing appeals for calm issued at the insistence of his staff, he was largely disengaged. Instead, a White House official said, most of Trump’s attention was consumed by his ire at Vice President Mike Pence, who defied Trump’s demands by acknowledging he did not have the power to unliterally choose the next president. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
Trump only reluctantly issued the tweets and taped a video encouraging an end to the violence. The posts came at the insistence of staff and amid mounting criticism from Republican lawmakers urging him to condemn the violence being perpetrated in his name, according to the official.
And even as authorities struggled to take control of Capitol Hill after protesters overwhelmed police, Trump continued to level baseless allegations of mass voter fraud and praised his loyalists as “very special.”
“I know your pain. I know your hurt. But you have to go home now,” he said in a video posted more than 90 minutes after lawmakers were evacuated from the House and Senate chambers. “We can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special.”
The violence, coupled with the president’s tepid response, alarmed many in the White House and appeared to push Republicans allies to the breaking point after years of allegiance to Trump. After four years with no shortage of fraught moments, Wednesday’s events quickly emerged as the nadir of morale in the Trump White House, as aides looked on in horror at the chaos at the Capitol Trump had fomented.
A number of White House aides were discussing a potential mass resignation, according to people familiar with the conversation. And others quickly departed.
Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s chief of staff and a former White House press secretary, submitted her resignation Wednesday. Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger, White House social secretary Rickie Niceta and deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews also resigned, according to officials. More departures were expected in the coming days, officials said.
Other aides indicated they planned to stay to help smooth the transition to the Biden administration. And some harbored concerns about what Trump might do in his final two weeks in office if they were not there to serve as guardrails when so few remain.
Trump’s begrudging statement acknowledging defeat came after even longtime allies floated whether members of his Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told ABC late Wednesday that “responsible members of the Cabinet” should be thinking about fulfilling their oath of office, adding that Trump had “violated his oath and betrayed the American people.”
Trump has been single-mindedly focused on his electoral defeat since Election Day, aides said, at the expense of the other responsibilities of his office, including the fight against the raging coronavirus. Indeed, it was Pence, not Trump, who spoke with the acting defense secretary to discuss mobilizing the D.C National Guard on Wednesday afternoon.
Hours earlier, Trump had appeared at a massive rally near the White House, where he continued to urge supporters to fight the election results and encouraged them to march to the Capitol in remarks that were peppered with incendiary language and rife with violent undertones. At one point, he even suggested he might join them — a prospect that was discussed by the White House but eventually abandoned.
“We’re going to the Capitol,” he said. “We’re going to try and give our Republicans ... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
Earlier in the rally, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had advocated what he had called “trial by combat.”
As the violence raged, Republican lawmakers and former administration officials had begged Trump to tell his supporters to stand down.
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His own account had been locked by the company for posting messages that appeared to justify the assault on the seat of the nation’s democracy.\nTrump added, “While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”\nThe statement was the first time Trump formally acknowledged his loss after spending the last two months refusing to concede and lobbing baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud, even though his own Justice Department, federal courts and state governments have said repeatedly the vote was carried out freely and fairly.\nTrump’s refusal to accept reality and his incendiary rhetoric reached a breaking point Wednesday when his supporters violently occupied the Capitol in one of the most jarring scenes ever to unfold in a seat of American political power. Authorities said four people died during the violence, including one woman who was shot by an officer outside the House chamber.\nTrump had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol to protest lawmakers’ actions, and later appeared to excuse the violent occupation by the mob, which forced its way inside and clashed with police.\n“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” Trump wrote in a message that was later deleted by Twitter. He added, “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”\nTrump’s response to the violence underscored his monthslong obsession with trying to overturn the results of the election. He has spent the final days of his presidency angrily stewing and lashing out at Republicans for perceived disloyalty while refusing to acknowledge his loss or concede.\nTrump’s statement could not be posted on his Twitter or Facebook feeds because both accounts had been blocked from posting.\nTrump spent much of Wednesday afternoon watching the insurrection on television from his private dining room off the Oval Office. But aside from sparing appeals for calm issued at the insistence of his staff, he was largely disengaged. Instead, a White House official said, most of Trump’s attention was consumed by his ire at Vice President Mike Pence, who defied Trump’s demands by acknowledging he did not have the power to unliterally choose the next president. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke only on the condition of anonymity.\nTrump only reluctantly issued the tweets and taped a video encouraging an end to the violence. The posts came at the insistence of staff and amid mounting criticism from Republican lawmakers urging him to condemn the violence being perpetrated in his name, according to the official.\nAnd even as authorities struggled to take control of Capitol Hill after protesters overwhelmed police, Trump continued to level baseless allegations of mass voter fraud and praised his loyalists as “very special.”\n“I know your pain. I know your hurt. But you have to go home now,” he said in a video posted more than 90 minutes after lawmakers were evacuated from the House and Senate chambers. “We can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special.”\nThe violence, coupled with the president’s tepid response, alarmed many in the White House and appeared to push Republicans allies to the breaking point after years of allegiance to Trump. After four years with no shortage of fraught moments, Wednesday’s events quickly emerged as the nadir of morale in the Trump White House, as aides looked on in horror at the chaos at the Capitol Trump had fomented.\nA number of White House aides were discussing a potential mass resignation, according to people familiar with the conversation. And others quickly departed.\nStephanie Grisham, the first lady’s chief of staff and a former White House press secretary, submitted her resignation Wednesday. Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger, White House social secretary Rickie Niceta and deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews also resigned, according to officials. More departures were expected in the coming days, officials said.\nOther aides indicated they planned to stay to help smooth the transition to the Biden administration. And some harbored concerns about what Trump might do in his final two weeks in office if they were not there to serve as guardrails when so few remain.\nTrump’s begrudging statement acknowledging defeat came after even longtime allies floated whether members of his Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told ABC late Wednesday that “responsible members of the Cabinet” should be thinking about fulfilling their oath of office, adding that Trump had “violated his oath and betrayed the American people.”\nTrump has been single-mindedly focused on his electoral defeat since Election Day, aides said, at the expense of the other responsibilities of his office, including the fight against the raging coronavirus. Indeed, it was Pence, not Trump, who spoke with the acting defense secretary to discuss mobilizing the D.C National Guard on Wednesday afternoon.\nHours earlier, Trump had appeared at a massive rally near the White House, where he continued to urge supporters to fight the election results and encouraged them to march to the Capitol in remarks that were peppered with incendiary language and rife with violent undertones. At one point, he even suggested he might join them — a prospect that was discussed by the White House but eventually abandoned.\n“We’re going to the Capitol,” he said. “We’re going to try and give our Republicans ... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”\nEarlier in the rally, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had advocated what he had called “trial by combat.”\nAs the violence raged, Republican lawmakers and former administration officials had begged Trump to tell his supporters to stand down.",
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s supporters have descended on the nation’s capital to cheer his baseless claims of election fraud ahead of a congressional vote to affirm Joe Biden’s election victory.
The president is expected to personally address his supporters during a Wednesday morning rally on the Ellipse, just south of the White House.
Just blocks from the White House, protesters — many without masks — gathered in Freedom Plaza on Tuesday to decry the vote in the Electoral College. As temperatures dropped to the low 40s and a steady rain swept onto the streets, hundreds remained in the plaza into nightfall.
“I’m just here to support the president,” said David Wideman, a 45-year-old firefighter who traveled from Memphis, Tennessee.
Wideman acknowledged he was “confused” by a string of losses from the president’s legal team in their attempt to overturn the results of the election and didn’t know what options Trump had left.
“I not sure what he can do at this point, but I want to hear what he has to say,” Wideman said.
Trump tweeted his support for the protesters: “Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our Country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore! We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The speakers included former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom the president pardoned after he was twice convicted of lying to the FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
“We stand at a crucible moment in United States history,” Flynn told the mostly maskless crowd. “This country is awake now.”
The protests coincide with Wednesday’s congressional vote expected to certify the Electoral College results, which Trump continues to dispute.
In a Tuesday evening tweet, Trump called on Democrats and fellow Republicans to look at the “thousands of people pouring into D.C.” In another tweet, he warned that antifa, the umbrella term for leftist militant groups that Trump has said he wants to declare a terrorist organization, should stay out of Washington.
The rallies had local officials and law enforcement bracing for potential violent street clashes. Many businesses in downtown Washington boarded up their windows, fearful that the protest could devolve into the unrest seen in May and June when dozens of businesses were vandalized.
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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser called in National Guard troops to help bolster the city’s police force. She urged residents to stay away from downtown Washington and to avoid confrontations with anyone who is “looking for a fight.” But, she warned, “we will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents or cause destruction in our city.”
Election officials from both political parties, governors in key battleground states and Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have said there was no widespread fraud in the election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two challenges rejected by the Supreme Court.
A pro-Trump rally Dec. 12 ended in violence as hundreds of Trump supporters, wearing the signature black and yellow of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, sought out confrontations with a collective of local activists attempting to bar them from Black Lives Matter Plaza, an area near the White House. At least two local Black churches had Black Lives Matter banners torn down and set ablaze.
On Monday, police arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, after he arrived in Washington ahead of this week’s protests. Tarrio was accused of burning one of the Black Lives Matter banners in December and was found with two high-capacity firearm magazines, police said. A judge signed an order Tuesday banning Tarrio from entering the District of Columbia, with very limited exceptions related to his criminal case.
In addition to the National Guard, federal agents were on standby, in case they were quickly needed in the city this week.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said about 100 “specially trained officers” were sent to the Justice Department headquarters to assist other security personnel but would remain “in a reserve capacity unless needed.”
The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, said that unlike during the unrest in May and June in Washington, it did not plan to deploy agents from Customs and Border Protection to the demonstration Wednesday.
“Right now, we have not been asked to deploy. However, we have a modest quick reaction force that will be on standby just in case our assistance is requested,” the agency’s acting commissioner, Mark Morgan, said.
Organizers planned to rally into the night on Tuesday and again all day on Wednesday on the Ellipse. An afternoon march was also planned to the U.S. Capitol, where Congress will be voting to affirm the election results. A number of prominent Trump supporters were expected to attend, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, the recipient of a pardon by the president.
Stone was convicted of lying to Congress during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and sentenced to three years in prison. Trump commuted the sentence as Stone pursued an appeal and later issued a full pardon.
A November pro-Trump rally drew about 15,000 participants. The Dec. 12 rally drew smaller numbers, but a larger contingent of Proud Boys.
During previous pro-Trump protests, police sealed off Black Lives Matter Plaza itself, but the confrontations spilled out to the surrounding streets. Black Lives Matter Plaza was sealed off Tuesday.
“We know that historically over the last few demonstrations that BLM Plaza has been a focal point,” Contee said a day earlier. “We want to make sure that that is not an issue.”
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As temperatures dropped to the low 40s and a steady rain swept onto the streets, hundreds remained in the plaza into nightfall.\n“I’m just here to support the president,” said David Wideman, a 45-year-old firefighter who traveled from Memphis, Tennessee.\nWideman acknowledged he was “confused” by a string of losses from the president’s legal team in their attempt to overturn the results of the election and didn’t know what options Trump had left.\n“I not sure what he can do at this point, but I want to hear what he has to say,” Wideman said.\nTrump tweeted his support for the protesters: “Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our Country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore! We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”\nThe speakers included former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom the president pardoned after he was twice convicted of lying to the FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.\n“We stand at a crucible moment in United States history,” Flynn told the mostly maskless crowd. “This country is awake now.”\nThe protests coincide with Wednesday’s congressional vote expected to certify the Electoral College results, which Trump continues to dispute.\nIn a Tuesday evening tweet, Trump called on Democrats and fellow Republicans to look at the “thousands of people pouring into D.C.” In another tweet, he warned that antifa, the umbrella term for leftist militant groups that Trump has said he wants to declare a terrorist organization, should stay out of Washington.\nThe rallies had local officials and law enforcement bracing for potential violent street clashes. Many businesses in downtown Washington boarded up their windows, fearful that the protest could devolve into the unrest seen in May and June when dozens of businesses were vandalized.\nADVERTISEMENT\nDistrict of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser called in National Guard troops to help bolster the city’s police force. She urged residents to stay away from downtown Washington and to avoid confrontations with anyone who is “looking for a fight.” But, she warned, “we will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents or cause destruction in our city.”\nElection officials from both political parties, governors in key battleground states and Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have said there was no widespread fraud in the election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two challenges rejected by the Supreme Court.\nA pro-Trump rally Dec. 12 ended in violence as hundreds of Trump supporters, wearing the signature black and yellow of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, sought out confrontations with a collective of local activists attempting to bar them from Black Lives Matter Plaza, an area near the White House. At least two local Black churches had Black Lives Matter banners torn down and set ablaze.\nOn Monday, police arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, after he arrived in Washington ahead of this week’s protests. Tarrio was accused of burning one of the Black Lives Matter banners in December and was found with two high-capacity firearm magazines, police said. A judge signed an order Tuesday banning Tarrio from entering the District of Columbia, with very limited exceptions related to his criminal case.\nIn addition to the National Guard, federal agents were on standby, in case they were quickly needed in the city this week.\nThe federal Bureau of Prisons said about 100 “specially trained officers” were sent to the Justice Department headquarters to assist other security personnel but would remain “in a reserve capacity unless needed.”\nThe Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, said that unlike during the unrest in May and June in Washington, it did not plan to deploy agents from Customs and Border Protection to the demonstration Wednesday.\n“Right now, we have not been asked to deploy. However, we have a modest quick reaction force that will be on standby just in case our assistance is requested,” the agency’s acting commissioner, Mark Morgan, said.\nOrganizers planned to rally into the night on Tuesday and again all day on Wednesday on the Ellipse. An afternoon march was also planned to the U.S. Capitol, where Congress will be voting to affirm the election results. A number of prominent Trump supporters were expected to attend, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, the recipient of a pardon by the president.\nStone was convicted of lying to Congress during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and sentenced to three years in prison. Trump commuted the sentence as Stone pursued an appeal and later issued a full pardon.\nA November pro-Trump rally drew about 15,000 participants. The Dec. 12 rally drew smaller numbers, but a larger contingent of Proud Boys.\nDuring previous pro-Trump protests, police sealed off Black Lives Matter Plaza itself, but the confrontations spilled out to the surrounding streets. Black Lives Matter Plaza was sealed off Tuesday.\n“We know that historically over the last few demonstrations that BLM Plaza has been a focal point,” Contee said a day earlier. “We want to make sure that that is not an issue.”",
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On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO's vaccine-sharing project. That...
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On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO's vaccine-sharing project. That reverses President Donald Trump's "America First" approach. Fauci says the goal is to ensure "equitable access" to vaccines for all countries in the world, rich and poor alike.
Americans scrambling to get vaccinated have a right to know how sharing doses with poor countries will affect their own ability to get vaccinated.
Biden is coming under pressure from the public health community to share the vaccine supply the U.S. has prepurchased before all Americans who want shots receive them.
The vaccine sharing project, with the acronym COVAX, raises money to buy vaccines for poor countries and asks the wealthier countries to donate actual doses. The COVAX dose-sharing principles, released Dec. 18, are causing controversy in France, England, Canada and other countries struggling to get their own populations vaccinated. COVAX wants countries to share their doses as they receive them, rather than waiting to see what's leftover. So far, Norway has agreed.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it's unfair for younger, healthy adults in countries like the U.S. to get injections before the frail and elderly in poor countries. He calls it a "catastrophic moral failure."
Similarly, Kate Elder of Doctors Without Borders objects "if a healthy 20-year-old in New Jersey is getting vaccinated before a front line health care worker in South Sudan."
Bruce Aylward, a WHO adviser, claims it's unacceptable for a country to vaccinate its entire population before offering doses to the highest risk inhabitants of poorer countries.
Duke University public health experts also argue that high-risk groups in poor countries should get the vaccine before the U.S. public. A report from the Duke Global Health Innovation Center complains that wealthy countries are monopolizing the initial supply.
Thursday's White House statement on vaccine sharing says the U.S. will comply once there is "sufficient" supply here. What does "sufficient" mean? When just those at highest risk are vaccinated, as globalists propose, or when shots have been offered to all Americans? The public needs a clear answer to that question.
There are powerful reasons to oppose COVAX's vaccine-sharing principles.
First, U.S. taxpayers poured billions into Operation Warp Speed to develop the vaccines with the understanding they'd get a large share of initial production. When Trump refused to join COVAX, The New York Times slammed the decision as "vaccine nationalism," but Americans desperate to get vaccinated are unlikely to be worried about political correctness.
Second, the U.S. is striving to reach herd immunity by summer, which scientists predict will require about 70% of the population to be vaccinated. Diverting some of the vaccine supply to COVAX would endanger that goal.
On Monday, the International Chamber of Commerce joined the call for equitable distribution of vaccines, arguing that helping poor nations will benefit the economies of wealthy ones. True in the long run, but vaccinating a quarter of the population of every country, as COVAX proposes, would necessitate the US and other developed countries giving up a return to normal this year.
Third, as new virus variants emerge, vaccination becomes even more a race against the clock. Otherwise a variant could appear that is not susceptible to the vaccine. Moderna announced Monday that its vaccine is somewhat less effective against the recently identified South African variant. People may need yearly boosters against emerging strains.
In the last two weeks, both the European Union and the U.S. have been hit with unexpected news about manufacturing setbacks. Monday the European Union actually threatened to ban Astra-Zeneca from exporting any doses until it meets its contractual obligations. The EU is putting its own people first.
That's a lesson for America. Decisions about vaccine sharing should not be left to public health "experts" whose globalist views are now ascendant in Washington, D.C. Helping the world is important, but America needs to take care of its own first.
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"On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO's vaccine-sharing project. That reverses President Donald Trump's \"America First\" approach. Fauci says the goal is to ensure \"equitable access\" to vaccines for all countries in the world, rich and poor alike.\nAmericans scrambling to get vaccinated have a right to know how sharing doses with poor countries will affect their own ability to get vaccinated.\nBiden is coming under pressure from the public health community to share the vaccine supply the U.S. has prepurchased before all Americans who want shots receive them.\nThe vaccine sharing project, with the acronym COVAX, raises money to buy vaccines for poor countries and asks the wealthier countries to donate actual doses. The COVAX dose-sharing principles, released Dec. 18, are causing controversy in France, England, Canada and other countries struggling to get their own populations vaccinated. COVAX wants countries to share their doses as they receive them, rather than waiting to see what's leftover. So far, Norway has agreed.\nWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it's unfair for younger, healthy adults in countries like the U.S. to get injections before the frail and elderly in poor countries. He calls it a \"catastrophic moral failure.\"\nSimilarly, Kate Elder of Doctors Without Borders objects \"if a healthy 20-year-old in New Jersey is getting vaccinated before a front line health care worker in South Sudan.\"\nBruce Aylward, a WHO adviser, claims it's unacceptable for a country to vaccinate its entire population before offering doses to the highest risk inhabitants of poorer countries.\nDuke University public health experts also argue that high-risk groups in poor countries should get the vaccine before the U.S. public. A report from the Duke Global Health Innovation Center complains that wealthy countries are monopolizing the initial supply.\nThursday's White House statement on vaccine sharing says the U.S. will comply once there is \"sufficient\" supply here. What does \"sufficient\" mean? When just those at highest risk are vaccinated, as globalists propose, or when shots have been offered to all Americans? The public needs a clear answer to that question.\nThere are powerful reasons to oppose COVAX's vaccine-sharing principles.\nFirst, U.S. taxpayers poured billions into Operation Warp Speed to develop the vaccines with the understanding they'd get a large share of initial production. When Trump refused to join COVAX, The New York Times slammed the decision as \"vaccine nationalism,\" but Americans desperate to get vaccinated are unlikely to be worried about political correctness.\nSecond, the U.S. is striving to reach herd immunity by summer, which scientists predict will require about 70% of the population to be vaccinated. Diverting some of the vaccine supply to COVAX would endanger that goal.\nOn Monday, the International Chamber of Commerce joined the call for equitable distribution of vaccines, arguing that helping poor nations will benefit the economies of wealthy ones. True in the long run, but vaccinating a quarter of the population of every country, as COVAX proposes, would necessitate the US and other developed countries giving up a return to normal this year.\nThird, as new virus variants emerge, vaccination becomes even more a race against the clock. Otherwise a variant could appear that is not susceptible to the vaccine. Moderna announced Monday that its vaccine is somewhat less effective against the recently identified South African variant. People may need yearly boosters against emerging strains.\nIn the last two weeks, both the European Union and the U.S. have been hit with unexpected news about manufacturing setbacks. Monday the European Union actually threatened to ban Astra-Zeneca from exporting any doses until it meets its contractual obligations. The EU is putting its own people first.\nThat's a lesson for America. Decisions about vaccine sharing should not be left to public health \"experts\" whose globalist views are now ascendant in Washington, D.C. Helping the world is important, but America needs to take care of its own first.\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM",
"U.S. Should Vaccinate Its Own Before Sharing Vaccines",
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The Perfect Symbol of the Trump Years | RealClearPolitics
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David Gergen writes that the new, 7-feet-tall fence now surrounding the Capitol should eventually find a home in the Smithsonian. Pieces of it would be an appropriate remembrance of just how dangerous and frightening the Trump years have been.
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| 2021-01-16T00:00:00 |
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"David Gergen writes that the new, 7-feet-tall fence now surrounding the Capitol should eventually find a home in the Smithsonian. Pieces of it would be an appropriate remembrance of just how dangerous and frightening the Trump years have been.",
"The Perfect Symbol of the Trump Years",
"The Perfect Symbol of the Trump Years | RealClearPolitics"
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No Middle Ground: Republicans Can Support Democracy or Trump | RealClearPolitics
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No Middle Ground: Republicans Can Support Democracy or Trump
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No Middle Ground: Republicans Can Support Democracy or Trump
Some Republicans are defending the Constitution; others must join them.
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| 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
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"No Middle Ground: Republicans Can Support Democracy or Trump\nSome Republicans are defending the Constitution; others must join them.",
"No Middle Ground: Republicans Can Support Democracy or Trump",
"No Middle Ground: Republicans Can Support Democracy or Trump | RealClearPolitics"
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Biden and the Press--Can This Honeymoon Survive? | RealClearPolitics
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Biden and the Press--Can This Honeymoon Survive?
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If history offers any indication, Harold Holzer writes, the media's grace period for President Joe Biden will not last long. Holzer elaborates on why American presidents - despite their differences from one another -- have had such brief press honeymoons.
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| 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
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"If history offers any indication, Harold Holzer writes, the media's grace period for President Joe Biden will not last long. Holzer elaborates on why American presidents - despite their differences from one another -- have had such brief press honeymoons.",
"Biden and the Press--Can This Honeymoon Survive?",
"Biden and the Press--Can This Honeymoon Survive? | RealClearPolitics"
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Why Trump's Impeachment Trial Is Constitutional | RealClearPolitics
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| 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
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One of the Most Vulnerable Moments in U.S. History | RealClearPolitics
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One of the Most Vulnerable Moments in U.S. History
This is one of the most vulnerable moments in our nation's history, writes Samantha Vinograd. Reverberations from the last few days — indeed the last few years — will be felt for decades.
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| 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
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"One of the Most Vulnerable Moments in U.S. History\nThis is one of the most vulnerable moments in our nation's history, writes Samantha Vinograd. Reverberations from the last few days — indeed the last few years — will be felt for decades.",
"One of the Most Vulnerable Moments in U.S. History",
"One of the Most Vulnerable Moments in U.S. History | RealClearPolitics"
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A New President, and a New Start | RealClearPolitics
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A New President, and a New Start
Rarely has a new American president faced challenges as formidable as those Joe Biden has to confront.
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"A New President, and a New Start\nRarely has a new American president faced challenges as formidable as those Joe Biden has to confront.",
"A New President, and a New Start",
"A New President, and a New Start | RealClearPolitics"
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Equitable Vaccine Distribution Must Include Noncitizens | RealClearPolitics
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The Biden-Harris administration should seize this opportunity to plan for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccine, including to noncitizens.
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"The Biden-Harris administration should seize this opportunity to plan for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccine, including to noncitizens.",
"Equitable Vaccine Distribution Must Include Noncitizens",
"Equitable Vaccine Distribution Must Include Noncitizens | RealClearPolitics"
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Dems, Woke Media Cling Desperately to Trump Hatred | RealClearPolitics
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Dems, Woke Media Cling Desperately to Trump Hatred
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The Democrats are not going to be able to hide much longer behind their Trump hatred. But it’s really all they’ve got.
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"The Democrats are not going to be able to hide much longer behind their Trump hatred. But it’s really all they’ve got.",
"Dems, Woke Media Cling Desperately to Trump Hatred",
"Dems, Woke Media Cling Desperately to Trump Hatred | RealClearPolitics"
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Biden's Return to the Paris Accord Is a Gift to China | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's Return to the Paris Accord Is a Gift to China
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President Biden's decision to rejoin the Paris climate accord immediately delivered on a campaign promise, fulfilled a top priority of the Left, and delighted our European allies. But most of all, it was a gift to China.
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| 2021-01-23T00:00:00 |
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"President Biden's decision to rejoin the Paris climate accord immediately delivered on a campaign promise, fulfilled a top priority of the Left, and delighted our European allies. But most of all, it was a gift to China.",
"Biden's Return to the Paris Accord Is a Gift to China",
"Biden's Return to the Paris Accord Is a Gift to China | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-17T23:26:19 | null | 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
Trump's Final Strategic Shift in the Middle East | RealClearPolitics
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Trump's Final Strategic Shift in the Middle East
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Trump's Final Strategic Shift in the Middle East
The decision caps the outgoing administration's efforts to build a regional defense arrangement to counter Iran.
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"Trump's Final Strategic Shift in the Middle East\nThe decision caps the outgoing administration's efforts to build a regional defense arrangement to counter Iran.",
"Trump's Final Strategic Shift in the Middle East",
"Trump's Final Strategic Shift in the Middle East | RealClearPolitics"
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Republicans Are Falling Into an Impeachment Trap | RealClearPolitics
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Republicans Are Falling Into an Impeachment Trap
Never underestimate the eager tendency of Republicans to continue spanking themselves long after Democrats have stopped beating them up.
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"Republicans Are Falling Into an Impeachment Trap\nNever underestimate the eager tendency of Republicans to continue spanking themselves long after Democrats have stopped beating them up.",
"Republicans Are Falling Into an Impeachment Trap",
"Republicans Are Falling Into an Impeachment Trap | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-08T13:33:36 | null | 2021-01-08T00:00:00 |
Our Constitutional System Passed a Difficult Stress Test | RealClearPolitics
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"Our Constitutional System Passed a Difficult Stress Test | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-26T17:24:16 | null | 2021-01-26T00:00:00 |
Alexei Navalny and His Supporters Deserve Western Support | RealClearPolitics
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"Alexei Navalny and His Supporters Deserve Western Support | RealClearPolitics"
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Dems Want To Bring Down Anyone Who Ever Backed Trump | RealClearPolitics
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Dems Want To Bring Down Anyone Who Ever Backed Trump
In December of 2019, President Trump tweeted a picture of himself bracketed by an unpunctuated caption. In reality they're not after me it read. They're after you I'm just in the way. I wrote t…
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| 2021-01-12T00:00:00 |
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"Dems Want To Bring Down Anyone Who Ever Backed Trump\nIn December of 2019, President Trump tweeted a picture of himself bracketed by an unpunctuated caption. In reality they're not after me it read. They're after you I'm just in the way. I wrote t…",
"Dems Want To Bring Down Anyone Who Ever Backed Trump",
"Dems Want To Bring Down Anyone Who Ever Backed Trump | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-11T15:16:09 | null | 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump | RealClearPolitics
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How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump
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How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump
It's not enough to denounce the storming of the Capitol. Where Trump brought death and American carnage, Democrats now need to deliver real economic relief.
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"How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump\nIt's not enough to denounce the storming of the Capitol. Where Trump brought death and American carnage, Democrats now need to deliver real economic relief.",
"How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump",
"How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump | RealClearPolitics"
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We Must Urgently Reclaim MLK's Vision of America | RealClearPolitics
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The 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement represented a time of turbulence but also a chance for real change - just like conditions in the USA today.
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| 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
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"The 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement represented a time of turbulence but also a chance for real change - just like conditions in the USA today.",
"We Must Urgently Reclaim MLK's Vision of America",
"We Must Urgently Reclaim MLK's Vision of America | RealClearPolitics"
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Republican-Corporate Divorce a Blessing for Party's Future | RealClearPolitics
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Republican-Corporate Divorce a Blessing for Party's Future
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November’s election revealed that the class realignment of our two parties is solidifying. Democrats have increasingly emerged as the party of upscale suburbs, of Silicon Valley and Hollywood and Wall Street, of the owners of capital and the professionals who service them. The GOP, meanwhile, is trending toward a multiracial working-class party, preferred by those who generally make their living by toil.
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"November’s election revealed that the class realignment of our two parties is solidifying. Democrats have increasingly emerged as the party of upscale suburbs, of Silicon Valley and Hollywood and Wall Street, of the owners of capital and the professionals who service them. The GOP, meanwhile, is trending toward a multiracial working-class party, preferred by those who generally make their living by toil.",
"Republican-Corporate Divorce a Blessing for Party's Future",
"Republican-Corporate Divorce a Blessing for Party's Future | RealClearPolitics"
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Good morning, its Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, the last day in a difficult and dangerous year. Tonight, we raise our glasses to toast the arrival of a new one....
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Eviction Protections; Hands Off, IRS; New Year's Nectar
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Good morning, it’s Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, the last day in a difficult and dangerous year. Tonight, we raise our glasses to toast the arrival of a new one. I hope you will be protected from this remorseless virus and connected with loves ones electronically or with the family members and friends in your pandemic “pod.” It’s not a year for typical revelry. Hopefully, New Year’s Eve 2021 will be a different story.
My brother Jackson Cannon, an acclaimed Boston mixologist and bar owner, lost his business to the coronavirus in 2020. My brother-in-law John Gallagher, a South Carolina cardiologist, lost his life. Other families have suffered even more.
Shall old acquaintances be forgot? Not this evening. “We’ll take a cup of kindness yet” -- that is to say, we’ll lift a glass to their memories this evening, simultaneously drowning our sorrows and fueling our hopes for their souls and our future.
In case you missed yesterday morning’s newsletter, in the New Year I won’t be doing daily history missives anymore. You’ll still receive the Morning Note, but it will be shorter and more contemporary. I will still offer a Friday essay showcasing a quote of the week. And I’ll have a few of my favorite lines about drinking in a moment. First, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:
* * *
Five Facts on Evictions. At RealClearPolicy, No Labels has this primer on federal protections afforded by the new COVID relief measure.
With COVID Relief, Credit Congress With Fixing a Problem Created by Government. At RealClearMarkets, Andrew Wilford hails the new law’s undoing of IRS efforts to penalize businesses that received Paycheck Protection Program money in the first stimulus.
Trump’s Top 10 Accomplishments of 2020. Steve Cortes compiled this list.
How a Drug Company’s Legal Machinations Impact the Opioid Crisis. At RealClearHealth, Jerry Rogers spotlights a lawsuit filed by a U.K. pharma firm that could undo compensation it agreed to pay the U.S. government for suffering caused by the company’s actions.
Princeton’s Racial Reckoning and Free Speech Battle. At RealClearEducation, Julia A. Seymour and Nathan Harden report on recent developments imperiling freedom of expression at the Ivy League school.
The Best History Books of the Last Decade. Brandon Christensen’s list can be found at RealClearHistory.
* * *
Our first sips in life, as babies, are usually mother’s milk. As we grow into toddlers, we find refreshment in a cool glass of water. In “The Human Comedy,” novelist William Saroyan describes the joyful gulping sounds made by 6-year-old Ulysses Macauley “when water is still the best drink in the world.” Soon, however, most of us want a more complex beverage to quench our thirst.
It was ever thus: Jesus turns water into wine, not the other way around. The apostle Paul, in one of his letters to Timothy, makes a tepid case for the medicinal superiority of wine over H 2 O: “No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.”
Some six centuries earlier, Greek poet Alcaeus had written, “Wine, dear boy, and truth.” Unfortunately, that fragment is all that is left of his thoughts on the matter. But a similar sentiment made its way into the consciousness of ancient Rome via the Latin expression “In vino, veritas.”
At this country’s founding, Benjamin Franklin had fun with these ideas. A man of science, Franklin held an appreciation for the natural processes that allowed grapes to be made into such a wonderful accompaniment to a meal. As a wine lover, however, he mused about the possibility of divine purpose in the perfect table wine. In 1779, he penned a waggish letter to Andre Morellet, a Jesuit philosopher and friend whom he addresses as Abbé Morellet (and which he signs Abbé Franklin). Writing in French, Franklin invokes the ancients:
“In vino veritas, says the wise man -- Truth is in wine. Before the days of Noah, then, men, having nothing but water to drink, could not discover the truth. Thus they went astray, became abominably wicked, and were justly exterminated by water, which they loved to drink. ...
“We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle,” Franklin continued. “But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. The miracle in question was only performed to hasten the operation, under circumstances of present necessity, which required it.”
A more secular, and pithier, explication of the supposed superiority of wine over water comes from W.C. Fields in “My Little Chickadee,” a 1940 film Fields and Mae West wrote and starred in. “Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan,” Fields character intones, “I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.”
On New Year’s Eve, the preferred wine has bubbles in it. Millions of Americans will have champagne or its derivatives in their glasses when the ball drops in Times Square tonight, sans crowds. No less a statesman than Winston Churchill would approve. Upon arriving in New York for a visit in 1931, Churchill remarked, “First things first. Get the champagne.”
In 1946, after World War II ended, he wrote a letter of gratitude to Madame Odette Pol-Roger, the vintner and seller of his favorite bubbly. “I could not live without Champagne,” Churchill wrote. “In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.’
Although I like champagne (and other wine, and beer) as much as the next man, ringing in 2021 will entail consuming a wee dram of something more potent: Irish whisky, Scotch, or perhaps a nice Kentucky bourbon -- I haven’t yet decided. I’m not alone in appreciating the soothing quality of such spirits. In James Joyce’s novel “The Dubliners,” several friends are discussing the infallibility of the pope when one of them notices that the bottle is emptying and there might not be enough for everyone to have a second round. A character named Mr. Fogarty begins apportioning the remainder. “The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude,” wrote Joyce.
After this hellish year, we all could use an agreeable interlude. So, Happy New Year, everyone. Take a cup of kindness -- and tomorrow put your mask back on. Let’s drink wisely and live safely and try to get through this together.
Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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"Good morning, it’s Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, the last day in a difficult and dangerous year. Tonight, we raise our glasses to toast the arrival of a new one. I hope you will be protected from this remorseless virus and connected with loves ones electronically or with the family members and friends in your pandemic “pod.” It’s not a year for typical revelry. Hopefully, New Year’s Eve 2021 will be a different story.\nMy brother Jackson Cannon, an acclaimed Boston mixologist and bar owner, lost his business to the coronavirus in 2020. My brother-in-law John Gallagher, a South Carolina cardiologist, lost his life. Other families have suffered even more.\nShall old acquaintances be forgot? Not this evening. “We’ll take a cup of kindness yet” -- that is to say, we’ll lift a glass to their memories this evening, simultaneously drowning our sorrows and fueling our hopes for their souls and our future.\nIn case you missed yesterday morning’s newsletter, in the New Year I won’t be doing daily history missives anymore. You’ll still receive the Morning Note, but it will be shorter and more contemporary. I will still offer a Friday essay showcasing a quote of the week. And I’ll have a few of my favorite lines about drinking in a moment. First, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:\n* * *\nFive Facts on Evictions. At RealClearPolicy, No Labels has this primer on federal protections afforded by the new COVID relief measure.\nWith COVID Relief, Credit Congress With Fixing a Problem Created by Government. At RealClearMarkets, Andrew Wilford hails the new law’s undoing of IRS efforts to penalize businesses that received Paycheck Protection Program money in the first stimulus.\nTrump’s Top 10 Accomplishments of 2020. Steve Cortes compiled this list.\nHow a Drug Company’s Legal Machinations Impact the Opioid Crisis. At RealClearHealth, Jerry Rogers spotlights a lawsuit filed by a U.K. pharma firm that could undo compensation it agreed to pay the U.S. government for suffering caused by the company’s actions.\nPrinceton’s Racial Reckoning and Free Speech Battle. At RealClearEducation, Julia A. Seymour and Nathan Harden report on recent developments imperiling freedom of expression at the Ivy League school.\nThe Best History Books of the Last Decade. Brandon Christensen’s list can be found at RealClearHistory.\n* * *\nOur first sips in life, as babies, are usually mother’s milk. As we grow into toddlers, we find refreshment in a cool glass of water. In “The Human Comedy,” novelist William Saroyan describes the joyful gulping sounds made by 6-year-old Ulysses Macauley “when water is still the best drink in the world.” Soon, however, most of us want a more complex beverage to quench our thirst.\nIt was ever thus: Jesus turns water into wine, not the other way around. The apostle Paul, in one of his letters to Timothy, makes a tepid case for the medicinal superiority of wine over H 2 O: “No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.”\nSome six centuries earlier, Greek poet Alcaeus had written, “Wine, dear boy, and truth.” Unfortunately, that fragment is all that is left of his thoughts on the matter. But a similar sentiment made its way into the consciousness of ancient Rome via the Latin expression “In vino, veritas.”\nAt this country’s founding, Benjamin Franklin had fun with these ideas. A man of science, Franklin held an appreciation for the natural processes that allowed grapes to be made into such a wonderful accompaniment to a meal. As a wine lover, however, he mused about the possibility of divine purpose in the perfect table wine. In 1779, he penned a waggish letter to Andre Morellet, a Jesuit philosopher and friend whom he addresses as Abbé Morellet (and which he signs Abbé Franklin). Writing in French, Franklin invokes the ancients:\n“In vino veritas, says the wise man -- Truth is in wine. Before the days of Noah, then, men, having nothing but water to drink, could not discover the truth. Thus they went astray, became abominably wicked, and were justly exterminated by water, which they loved to drink. ...\n“We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle,” Franklin continued. “But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. The miracle in question was only performed to hasten the operation, under circumstances of present necessity, which required it.”\nA more secular, and pithier, explication of the supposed superiority of wine over water comes from W.C. Fields in “My Little Chickadee,” a 1940 film Fields and Mae West wrote and starred in. “Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan,” Fields character intones, “I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.”\nOn New Year’s Eve, the preferred wine has bubbles in it. Millions of Americans will have champagne or its derivatives in their glasses when the ball drops in Times Square tonight, sans crowds. No less a statesman than Winston Churchill would approve. Upon arriving in New York for a visit in 1931, Churchill remarked, “First things first. Get the champagne.”\nIn 1946, after World War II ended, he wrote a letter of gratitude to Madame Odette Pol-Roger, the vintner and seller of his favorite bubbly. “I could not live without Champagne,” Churchill wrote. “In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.’\nAlthough I like champagne (and other wine, and beer) as much as the next man, ringing in 2021 will entail consuming a wee dram of something more potent: Irish whisky, Scotch, or perhaps a nice Kentucky bourbon -- I haven’t yet decided. I’m not alone in appreciating the soothing quality of such spirits. In James Joyce’s novel “The Dubliners,” several friends are discussing the infallibility of the pope when one of them notices that the bottle is emptying and there might not be enough for everyone to have a second round. A character named Mr. Fogarty begins apportioning the remainder. “The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude,” wrote Joyce.\nAfter this hellish year, we all could use an agreeable interlude. So, Happy New Year, everyone. Take a cup of kindness -- and tomorrow put your mask back on. Let’s drink wisely and live safely and try to get through this together.\nCarl M. Cannon\nWashington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics\n@CarlCannon (Twitter)\[email protected]",
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Apply the First Amendment to Liberal Tech Giants
In the wake of Trump's Twitter ban, big tech can't be allowed to hide behind terms and conditions any longer.
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Vice President Mike Pence this morning provided to Joe Biden the final report of the White House Coronavirus Task Force that he led for the past year,...
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Vice President Mike Pence this morning provided to Joe Biden the final report of the White House Coronavirus Task Force that he led for the past year, outlining everything that’s been done to fight the pandemic by the outgoing administration and where things stand for the incoming one. It is also a rough draft of history authored by Pence, the American who has been most responsible for fighting the once-in-a-century virus that continues to burn across the country, cripple the economy, and define the year just ended.
Until recently, Donald Trump was in the habit of heaping praise on Pence for his efforts. Once, when the president was turning a press conference over to his veep, he tried giving him an out. “If he’s not answering questions like he should,” Trump said only half-kiddingly, “we have a great reason — he hasn’t slept in about four weeks!” That much was true. COVID consumed him.
The Pence report, then, is an attempt to fill in the details of how the vice president and other task force members spent the last nine months in an all-consuming marathon. The document, which was obtained first by RealClearPolitics, details how the panel sped development of the vaccine, secured medical supplies, slashed regulatory red tape to hurry the creation of new therapeutics, invoked the Defense Production Act to manufacture medicines, boosted hospital capacity, instituted mitigation measures, and developed data systems to test for and track the virus.
“As of the date of this report, the supply chain has been strengthened, testing is available to all who need it, innovative therapeutics have been developed that are daily saving lives, and safe and effective vaccines are being distributed and administered across the land,” reads the forward.
What follows in the next 140 pages certainly paints a rosier picture than the real-time portrait of mistakes and headaches and squabbles detailed in the press. But the document does not contain any kind of “Mission: Accomplished” overstatement. The virus has not been defeated, and while the report insists that millions of lives were saved by the administration’s actions, the executive summary states flatly that “this is no declaration of victory.”
“More than 400,000 of our fellow Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus, and although hospitalizations and mortality rates are in nationwide decline, the virus continues to exact a toll on lives and livelihoods,” it reads. “But as we count that cost, it redoubles our determination to build on the progress we have made, and to restore this great nation and her people to health and to prosperity."
An end to the national nightmare will come, Pence and others in the outgoing administration have long insisted, because of the vaccines, and a significant portion of the report focuses on Operation Warp Speed, which helped develop that breakthrough. It notes, for instance, how the genetic sequence of the virus was released by researchers in China on Jan. 11, 2020, and how “just two days later” the National Institutes of Health partnered with the pharmaceutical company Moderna to design the “vaccine that the FDA would ultimately approve as safe and effective later that year.”
According to the Pence report, this was “nothing less than a medical miracle,” a rapid turnaround that along with other advances against the virus was possible “only in America.” The scourge that made that mobilization necessary, meanwhile, was the result not just of communist China’s incompetence but outright malfeasance, the outgoing vice president concludes.
“Little was known or understood about the novel virus,” the report notes of the situation one year ago, “and over the coming weeks China and the World Health Organization repeatedly disseminated incomplete and inaccurate health information that significantly obstructed the ability of the rest of the world to mount an informed response.”
What’s more, the reports adds that China allowed the virus to be exported: “Not only did China deliberately inhibit research and disclosure of essential information about the virus, but it also seeded the infection globally by facilitating international travel out of China, even as it imposed internal travel restrictions and hoarded PPE and medical supplies that would soon be urgently needed worldwide.”
It is perhaps the strongest condemnation of the Beijing regime by the former vice president to date. Any future criticism from Pence will come as a private citizen.
The Biden administration will immediately take up the task of distributing the inherited vaccines. Those officials are less than impressed. “We have had uneven cooperation,” a senior Biden official said last week before adding that “what we are inheriting from the Trump administration is much worse than we could have imagined.”
Needles started going into the arms Americans, beginning with health care workers, on Dec. 14. According to a state-by-state tally by Bloomberg News and data accumulated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15.6 million shots have been administered, an average of 806,716 doses per day (or about 4.7 doses per every 100 Americans). This is not enough, the Biden official told reporters: “As we've seen, the states are scrambling; there was really no plan to get needles in arms and there has been very little coordination.” The official added, “We're going to do just the opposite.”
Pence is used to criticism, and his opponents will likely point to his leadership of the task force as disqualifying him from realizing any White House ambitions. They will likely disregard the final report along with its charts and splashy pictures of Pence and Trump listening intently to experts and meeting with first responders. Critics such as Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo will probably skip the white paper altogether. But if they picked up a copy, they’d notice conspicuous pull quotes a few pages into the document.
The Pence report quotes the California governor saying of his conversation with Trump, “Every single thing he said, they followed up on,” and the New York governor thanking the White House for “moving quickly” and “delivering for New York.”
But the outgoing vice president didn’t bother with settling old scores in his report. The final words in the document, before an appendix and timeline, are instead apolitical: “A nationwide vaccination effort is underway, and every American has good reason to hope that our nation’s long period of trial and tribulation is finally coming to a close.
“The final chapter of the fight against COVID-19 remains to be written. But as the period of Vice President Pence’s leadership of the Task Force winds down, and the incoming Biden Administration prepares to take up the reins, Americans can be confident the nation is better equipped today than ever before to face and overcome the challenges ahead.”
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"Vice President Mike Pence this morning provided to Joe Biden the final report of the White House Coronavirus Task Force that he led for the past year, outlining everything that’s been done to fight the pandemic by the outgoing administration and where things stand for the incoming one. It is also a rough draft of history authored by Pence, the American who has been most responsible for fighting the once-in-a-century virus that continues to burn across the country, cripple the economy, and define the year just ended.\nUntil recently, Donald Trump was in the habit of heaping praise on Pence for his efforts. Once, when the president was turning a press conference over to his veep, he tried giving him an out. “If he’s not answering questions like he should,” Trump said only half-kiddingly, “we have a great reason — he hasn’t slept in about four weeks!” That much was true. COVID consumed him.\nThe Pence report, then, is an attempt to fill in the details of how the vice president and other task force members spent the last nine months in an all-consuming marathon. The document, which was obtained first by RealClearPolitics, details how the panel sped development of the vaccine, secured medical supplies, slashed regulatory red tape to hurry the creation of new therapeutics, invoked the Defense Production Act to manufacture medicines, boosted hospital capacity, instituted mitigation measures, and developed data systems to test for and track the virus.\n“As of the date of this report, the supply chain has been strengthened, testing is available to all who need it, innovative therapeutics have been developed that are daily saving lives, and safe and effective vaccines are being distributed and administered across the land,” reads the forward.\nWhat follows in the next 140 pages certainly paints a rosier picture than the real-time portrait of mistakes and headaches and squabbles detailed in the press. But the document does not contain any kind of “Mission: Accomplished” overstatement. The virus has not been defeated, and while the report insists that millions of lives were saved by the administration’s actions, the executive summary states flatly that “this is no declaration of victory.”\n“More than 400,000 of our fellow Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus, and although hospitalizations and mortality rates are in nationwide decline, the virus continues to exact a toll on lives and livelihoods,” it reads. “But as we count that cost, it redoubles our determination to build on the progress we have made, and to restore this great nation and her people to health and to prosperity.\"\nAn end to the national nightmare will come, Pence and others in the outgoing administration have long insisted, because of the vaccines, and a significant portion of the report focuses on Operation Warp Speed, which helped develop that breakthrough. It notes, for instance, how the genetic sequence of the virus was released by researchers in China on Jan. 11, 2020, and how “just two days later” the National Institutes of Health partnered with the pharmaceutical company Moderna to design the “vaccine that the FDA would ultimately approve as safe and effective later that year.”\nAccording to the Pence report, this was “nothing less than a medical miracle,” a rapid turnaround that along with other advances against the virus was possible “only in America.” The scourge that made that mobilization necessary, meanwhile, was the result not just of communist China’s incompetence but outright malfeasance, the outgoing vice president concludes.\n“Little was known or understood about the novel virus,” the report notes of the situation one year ago, “and over the coming weeks China and the World Health Organization repeatedly disseminated incomplete and inaccurate health information that significantly obstructed the ability of the rest of the world to mount an informed response.”\nWhat’s more, the reports adds that China allowed the virus to be exported: “Not only did China deliberately inhibit research and disclosure of essential information about the virus, but it also seeded the infection globally by facilitating international travel out of China, even as it imposed internal travel restrictions and hoarded PPE and medical supplies that would soon be urgently needed worldwide.”\nIt is perhaps the strongest condemnation of the Beijing regime by the former vice president to date. Any future criticism from Pence will come as a private citizen.\nThe Biden administration will immediately take up the task of distributing the inherited vaccines. Those officials are less than impressed. “We have had uneven cooperation,” a senior Biden official said last week before adding that “what we are inheriting from the Trump administration is much worse than we could have imagined.”\nNeedles started going into the arms Americans, beginning with health care workers, on Dec. 14. According to a state-by-state tally by Bloomberg News and data accumulated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15.6 million shots have been administered, an average of 806,716 doses per day (or about 4.7 doses per every 100 Americans). This is not enough, the Biden official told reporters: “As we've seen, the states are scrambling; there was really no plan to get needles in arms and there has been very little coordination.” The official added, “We're going to do just the opposite.”\nPence is used to criticism, and his opponents will likely point to his leadership of the task force as disqualifying him from realizing any White House ambitions. They will likely disregard the final report along with its charts and splashy pictures of Pence and Trump listening intently to experts and meeting with first responders. Critics such as Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo will probably skip the white paper altogether. But if they picked up a copy, they’d notice conspicuous pull quotes a few pages into the document.\nThe Pence report quotes the California governor saying of his conversation with Trump, “Every single thing he said, they followed up on,” and the New York governor thanking the White House for “moving quickly” and “delivering for New York.”\nBut the outgoing vice president didn’t bother with settling old scores in his report. The final words in the document, before an appendix and timeline, are instead apolitical: “A nationwide vaccination effort is underway, and every American has good reason to hope that our nation’s long period of trial and tribulation is finally coming to a close.\n“The final chapter of the fight against COVID-19 remains to be written. But as the period of Vice President Pence’s leadership of the Task Force winds down, and the incoming Biden Administration prepares to take up the reins, Americans can be confident the nation is better equipped today than ever before to face and overcome the challenges ahead.”",
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Social Media Bans Threaten Free Speech For All
Social media's purge of Trump and other conservatives puts Americans' rights at risk.
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Newly empowered Democrats have spent a lot of time telling America that this is a time for “unity.” This appears strange to even a casual observer of politics… because they’re also insisting that the best way to bring the country together is through a second impeachment of Donald Trump, even though he’s no longer president of the United States.
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7 Ways 2020 Left America Exposed | RealClearPolitics
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The coronavirus and a near-catastrophic election showed Donald Trump is a symptom not a cause of what ails US society
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Saint Ted of the Senate | RealClearPolitics
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Saint Ted of the Senate
James Piereson reviews Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932–1975, by Neal Gabler.
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Trump and the Failure of the Expert Class | RealClearPolitics
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They were right about his character, but his defects were obvious to almost everyone. They were wrong about virtually all else.
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A First-Hand Account at the Trump Election Protest | RealClearPolitics
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An eye-witness at the January 6th protest at the Capitol Building details what he saw and heard on that fateful Wednesday.
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Throngs of self-styled conservatives and Republicans have now reached the thunderous realization that Donald Trump is not just a harmless clown. Former White...
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Throngs of self-styled conservatives and Republicans have now reached the thunderous realization that Donald Trump is not just a harmless clown. Former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged to Chuck Todd that Trump's rhetoric was incendiary, but insisted that this kind of incitement was par for the course in politics, and he was shocked that people took Trump literally.
It seems we have an entire party stocked with Captain Renaults.
While it's good to see some lines being drawn at long last, it may be too late. As with the response to the coronavirus, timing is everything. Republicans had many, many chances to curtail the spread and isolate the superspreader, but they kept saying there was nothing to Trumpism, or it would simply go away, or it was all a hoax perpetrated by the left to install socialism.
I like a conversion as much as the next person, but sorry, there was always a whiff of fascism about Trump. Don't tell us you're just discovering it now. His fascination with strength instead of values, his promises to commit war crimes, his twisted admiration of strong men, his avalanche of lies, his ignorance of and contempt for law, his targeting of minority groups, his stoking of grievance and victimhood. It was all there. Yes, it was interspersed with humor and entertainment. Think that means it can't be dangerous? Have you ever seen a Hugo Chavez or Rodrigo Duterte speech?
Didn't Republicans see him encouraging violence among his followers at rallies in 2016? Don't they remember the thuggish threats his people issued during the 2016 campaign?
In April 2016, Trump and Ted Cruz were still battling for delegates. Trump's recently pardoned consigliere, Roger Stone, alleged (falsely) at the time that he had proof Cruz's victories were all based on "massive voter fraud." Threatening "days of rage" in Cleveland, Stone continued: "We're going to have protests, demonstrations. We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal."
Stone didn't even bother to clothe his threats of physical violence in humor.
Trump was always clear about his attraction to political violence. Speaking of Clinton, he warned that if elected, she could curtail gun rights. "If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks." The crowd booed. He then added: "Although the Second Amendment people -- maybe there is, I don't know."
That became a tick. He would invoke the Second Amendment as a code for encouraging his supporters to resort to violence. "LIBERATE VIRGINIA," he tweeted in 2020, "and save your great 2nd amendment. It's under siege." "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" Trump screamed from his keyboard. Heavily armed protesters showed up at the Michigan Statehouse.
Even after some members of that mob were arrested for plotting to kidnap and possibly assassinate the governor and blow up the capital, Trump continued his incitement against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Appearing at a rally in Michigan, he joked about the attempt on her life.
Let that sink in. The FBI had arrested a group of domestic terrorists who were planning an attack on a sitting governor, and the president of the United States made light of it: "I'm the one, it was our people that helped her out with her problem. I mean, we'll have to see if it's a problem. Right? People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn't."
Did Mick Mulvaney & Co. miss that? Did they not notice when Trump loyalists cheered on vigilantism? When rioting broke out after the George Floyd killing, Trump lapdog Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted, "Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East?"
Perhaps today's "aware" Republicans were otherwise engaged when Trump and his gang made Kyle Rittenhouse a hero, and offered a Republican Convention speaking slot to the gun-brandishing lawyers from St. Louis? What did they make of Trump's tweet, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts"?
Even his famous boast about the loyalty of his followers was revealing. He said he could "shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any followers." As we now see, he might gain some.
Since Republicans said hardly a word, one must conclude that they were not alarmed when Trump phoned the Georgia secretary of state and instructed him to "find" 11,780 votes -- in other words to steal the election he was accusing his opponents of stealing. As historian Timothy Snyder put it, "Post truth is pre-fascist."
Republicans who are drawing a line now and saying that they never imagined Trump's personal militias would smash cops' heads with fire extinguishers and defecate in the halls of the Capitol must also answer this question: What else do you expect when you falsely allege a stolen election? Faith in elections is the sine qua non of a functioning democracy. If elections are not free and fair, what alternative is there to violence?
Now Mulvaney and Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and many others are finding a line they think is too far. Inciting a mob to invade the Capitol in order to stop the certification of the election is the one thing, the only thing, that got their attention. Good for them. But while they and nearly the entire Republican Party and its opinion-shaping satellites were averting their eyes, cooperating and enabling, the Trump virus spread. It's now an epidemic, and there is no vaccine on the horizon.
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His fascination with strength instead of values, his promises to commit war crimes, his twisted admiration of strong men, his avalanche of lies, his ignorance of and contempt for law, his targeting of minority groups, his stoking of grievance and victimhood. It was all there. Yes, it was interspersed with humor and entertainment. Think that means it can't be dangerous? Have you ever seen a Hugo Chavez or Rodrigo Duterte speech?\nDidn't Republicans see him encouraging violence among his followers at rallies in 2016? Don't they remember the thuggish threats his people issued during the 2016 campaign?\nIn April 2016, Trump and Ted Cruz were still battling for delegates. Trump's recently pardoned consigliere, Roger Stone, alleged (falsely) at the time that he had proof Cruz's victories were all based on \"massive voter fraud.\" Threatening \"days of rage\" in Cleveland, Stone continued: \"We're going to have protests, demonstrations. We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal.\"\nStone didn't even bother to clothe his threats of physical violence in humor.\nTrump was always clear about his attraction to political violence. Speaking of Clinton, he warned that if elected, she could curtail gun rights. \"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.\" The crowd booed. He then added: \"Although the Second Amendment people -- maybe there is, I don't know.\"\nThat became a tick. He would invoke the Second Amendment as a code for encouraging his supporters to resort to violence. \"LIBERATE VIRGINIA,\" he tweeted in 2020, \"and save your great 2nd amendment. It's under siege.\" \"LIBERATE MICHIGAN!\" Trump screamed from his keyboard. Heavily armed protesters showed up at the Michigan Statehouse.\nEven after some members of that mob were arrested for plotting to kidnap and possibly assassinate the governor and blow up the capital, Trump continued his incitement against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Appearing at a rally in Michigan, he joked about the attempt on her life.\nLet that sink in. The FBI had arrested a group of domestic terrorists who were planning an attack on a sitting governor, and the president of the United States made light of it: \"I'm the one, it was our people that helped her out with her problem. I mean, we'll have to see if it's a problem. Right? People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn't.\"\nDid Mick Mulvaney & Co. miss that? Did they not notice when Trump loyalists cheered on vigilantism? When rioting broke out after the George Floyd killing, Trump lapdog Rep. 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As historian Timothy Snyder put it, \"Post truth is pre-fascist.\"\nRepublicans who are drawing a line now and saying that they never imagined Trump's personal militias would smash cops' heads with fire extinguishers and defecate in the halls of the Capitol must also answer this question: What else do you expect when you falsely allege a stolen election? Faith in elections is the sine qua non of a functioning democracy. If elections are not free and fair, what alternative is there to violence?\nNow Mulvaney and Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and many others are finding a line they think is too far. Inciting a mob to invade the Capitol in order to stop the certification of the election is the one thing, the only thing, that got their attention. Good for them. But while they and nearly the entire Republican Party and its opinion-shaping satellites were averting their eyes, cooperating and enabling, the Trump virus spread. 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Because Democrats don't hesitate to use power even if they lack legitimacy, they will go farther than Obama did in pushing transgender ideology on American children over the next four years.
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An assault on our seat of government should not give rise to an assault on our Constitution.
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What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it was a Parthian shot to discredit President Trump’s supporters.
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As one of 10 children growing up in extreme poverty in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mark Robinson has defied a lot of odds in life: an alcoholic and abusive...
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As one of 10 children growing up in extreme poverty in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mark Robinson has defied a lot of odds in life: an alcoholic and abusive father, foster care stints and an overwhelmed single mother.
After joining the Army Reserves right out of high school, he married and had two children while drifting through various jobs making furniture, a profession that kept evaporating as each plant he worked for relocated to Mexico.
In 2018, he attended Greensboro's city council meeting to voice his frustration over the town's decision to ban a local gun show and found himself giving an off-the-cuff yet deeply impassioned speech. Despite not owning a gun at the time, Robinson argued for four minutes in defense of the Second Amendment and ended up garnering national attention. This year, with few resources and no electoral experience, Robinson became the first black lieutenant governor-elect of North Carolina.
"I didn't expect the reaction that I received from that speech," Robinson said. "I thought maybe a couple of friends would see it and that was about it. When it went viral ...a lot of people encouraged me to get a radio show and things of that sort."
But he decided against courting fame, because "in order to affect real change, there's no better place to do that than in the political arena."
So, Robinson ran for lieutenant governor, and became the first black Republican to win a major seat in the state since the 1890s. He also earned more votes in his state than the two top Republicans on the ticket: President Donald Trump and Sen. Thom Tillis, and nearly as many as Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who will now have a member of the Republican Party as his second-in-command. If Cooper is successful in his rumored run for U.S. Senate in 2022, Robinson will ascend to the state's highest office.
Robinson's win is astounding for any number of reasons, but especially because he managed to beat the $8 million spent by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his state to take him out.
The funds came via the Beyond Carbon Victory Fund, an environmental justice campaign Bloomberg launched last year that boasts a $500 million budget dedicated to electing state and local candidates "who are climate champions."
In his upcoming role as the new lieutenant governor, Robinson will chair North Carolina's energy council.
On Bloomberg's bid to turn his ticket blue, Robinson is matter-of-fact.
"Just because you have money, that money does not always translate into votes," he said. "Our message was simple: We're 100 percent pro-life; we stand up for our Second Amendment, our God-given right to self-defense, school choice, caring for our veterans and standing up for law enforcement and law and order.
"You just can't sway people because you want them to think the way you do. People see right through that."
In short, Robinson was just a guy who resonated with people, connecting with them on issues they face every day. His message might have ruffled the feathers of the politically correct, but no one could ever doubt its authenticity. He never assumed he knew better, a mistake Bloomberg made with both his fly-by-night run for president and his push for more progressive candidates in smaller races across the country.
"If Michael Bloomberg's failure to have any impact on the 2020 race tells us anything, it shows message and messenger are more important than money," said Paul Sracic, a political science professor at Youngstown State University.
Bloomberg also came up short in two other down-ballot races in 2020. Despite pouring $2.5 million of Beyond Carbon funds into Democrat Chrysta Castaneda's bid for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, she lost -- helping cement decades of GOP power on the energy-regulating board. And even with his $6.5 million drive to put three progressive candidates onto the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates the state's utilities, only one Democrat was successful, allowing Republicans to hold their majority.
Bloomberg dumped another $100 million into Florida through his Independence USA PAC to grease the wheels for Biden and down-ballot Democrats, only to see the needle move backward for his party in that state. Not only did Trump get 1 million more votes in Florida than he did in 2016, but Republicans also expanded their majorities in both state chambers while ousting two Democrats from congressional seats in the Miami-Dade area.
Meanwhile, the $60 million Bloomberg spent to support Democrats in House races across the country gained the party nothing. No Republican incumbent lost a seat in the House of Representatives, and the Democrats lost at least a dozen seats in the lower chamber to GOP challengers.
Even the $60 million Bloomberg spent pushing gun-control candidates through his organization Everytown for Gun Safety had little to no effect. This year saw a record for new gun ownership in America: almost 5 million people are new gun owners, with 40% of them women.
Bloomberg's spokespeople did not return calls for comment, but one of his top political advisers, Kevin Sheekey, told the Associated Press last month: "At the end of the day, a win is a win and Joe Biden will take office in January and Donald Trump will leave. We feel quite good about ... the end result."
At the same time, there is no denying that Bloomberg's Goliath attempts to conquer every level of American politics this year fell to scores of Davids across the country -- including Mark Robinson.
"I chuckled to myself about this on more than one occasion," Robinson said. "Michael Bloomberg lives in an ivory tower in one of the greatest cities in the world. This guy has billions of dollars and here he is trying to take out little old Mark Robinson. It really is bizarre and if you wrote this as a movie, nobody would believe it. But here we are."
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This year, with few resources and no electoral experience, Robinson became the first black lieutenant governor-elect of North Carolina.\n\"I didn't expect the reaction that I received from that speech,\" Robinson said. \"I thought maybe a couple of friends would see it and that was about it. When it went viral ...a lot of people encouraged me to get a radio show and things of that sort.\"\nBut he decided against courting fame, because \"in order to affect real change, there's no better place to do that than in the political arena.\"\nSo, Robinson ran for lieutenant governor, and became the first black Republican to win a major seat in the state since the 1890s. He also earned more votes in his state than the two top Republicans on the ticket: President Donald Trump and Sen. Thom Tillis, and nearly as many as Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who will now have a member of the Republican Party as his second-in-command. If Cooper is successful in his rumored run for U.S. Senate in 2022, Robinson will ascend to the state's highest office.\nRobinson's win is astounding for any number of reasons, but especially because he managed to beat the $8 million spent by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his state to take him out.\nThe funds came via the Beyond Carbon Victory Fund, an environmental justice campaign Bloomberg launched last year that boasts a $500 million budget dedicated to electing state and local candidates \"who are climate champions.\"\nIn his upcoming role as the new lieutenant governor, Robinson will chair North Carolina's energy council.\nOn Bloomberg's bid to turn his ticket blue, Robinson is matter-of-fact.\n\"Just because you have money, that money does not always translate into votes,\" he said. \"Our message was simple: We're 100 percent pro-life; we stand up for our Second Amendment, our God-given right to self-defense, school choice, caring for our veterans and standing up for law enforcement and law and order.\n\"You just can't sway people because you want them to think the way you do. People see right through that.\"\nIn short, Robinson was just a guy who resonated with people, connecting with them on issues they face every day. His message might have ruffled the feathers of the politically correct, but no one could ever doubt its authenticity. He never assumed he knew better, a mistake Bloomberg made with both his fly-by-night run for president and his push for more progressive candidates in smaller races across the country.\n\"If Michael Bloomberg's failure to have any impact on the 2020 race tells us anything, it shows message and messenger are more important than money,\" said Paul Sracic, a political science professor at Youngstown State University.\nBloomberg also came up short in two other down-ballot races in 2020. Despite pouring $2.5 million of Beyond Carbon funds into Democrat Chrysta Castaneda's bid for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, she lost -- helping cement decades of GOP power on the energy-regulating board. And even with his $6.5 million drive to put three progressive candidates onto the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates the state's utilities, only one Democrat was successful, allowing Republicans to hold their majority.\nBloomberg dumped another $100 million into Florida through his Independence USA PAC to grease the wheels for Biden and down-ballot Democrats, only to see the needle move backward for his party in that state. Not only did Trump get 1 million more votes in Florida than he did in 2016, but Republicans also expanded their majorities in both state chambers while ousting two Democrats from congressional seats in the Miami-Dade area.\nMeanwhile, the $60 million Bloomberg spent to support Democrats in House races across the country gained the party nothing. No Republican incumbent lost a seat in the House of Representatives, and the Democrats lost at least a dozen seats in the lower chamber to GOP challengers.\nEven the $60 million Bloomberg spent pushing gun-control candidates through his organization Everytown for Gun Safety had little to no effect. This year saw a record for new gun ownership in America: almost 5 million people are new gun owners, with 40% of them women.\nBloomberg's spokespeople did not return calls for comment, but one of his top political advisers, Kevin Sheekey, told the Associated Press last month: \"At the end of the day, a win is a win and Joe Biden will take office in January and Donald Trump will leave. We feel quite good about ... the end result.\"\nAt the same time, there is no denying that Bloomberg's Goliath attempts to conquer every level of American politics this year fell to scores of Davids across the country -- including Mark Robinson.\n\"I chuckled to myself about this on more than one occasion,\" Robinson said. \"Michael Bloomberg lives in an ivory tower in one of the greatest cities in the world. This guy has billions of dollars and here he is trying to take out little old Mark Robinson. It really is bizarre and if you wrote this as a movie, nobody would believe it. But here we are.\"\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM",
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Biden Needs a Democracy Czar to Repair Our Civic Life | RealClearPolitics
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The attack on the Capitol exposed our broken social and political systems. It will be tough to repair them, but it would be disgraceful not to try.
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Post-Covid Mideast Economies Look to the Gulf and Egypt | RealClearPolitics
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The region took a hard hit from the pandemic, and it's far from over, but Egypt and Saudi Arabia are managing better than expected.
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Republic of Unequals: What Can Be Done About Inequality? | RealClearPolitics
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Republic of Unequals: What Can Be Done About Inequality?
The inequality baked into contemporary US capitalism is warping America’s society and politics, explains Nobel laureate Angus Deaton. Joe Biden’s administration is bursting with inequality experts, but what chance do they really stand of fixing the problem?
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Georgia's Getting More Blue. The Runoffs Will Tell How Much | RealClearPolitics
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Georgia's Getting More Blue. The Runoffs Will Tell How Much
A reliably red state for almost two decades, Georgia no longer resembles its Deep South neighbors. President Trump and Joe Biden head there Monday to help rally the bases.
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Last week, the Capitol was breached by a group of fringe Trump supporters who had bought into a series of lies: the lie that President Donald Trump lost the...
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The Lies Tearing America Apart
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Last week, the Capitol was breached by a group of fringe Trump supporters who had bought into a series of lies: the lie that President Donald Trump lost the election due to proven voter fraud and irregularity; the lie that the Electoral College results, legally certified state by state, could be overturned by Congress or the vice president; the lie that Trump would remain in office if only some sort of armed rebellion were to prevent the election certification by Congress. Those were lies. And those lies had deadly consequences.
Thankfully, the vast majority of Americans don't believe those lies. Which means we should be able to unify around certain basic truths: that Joe Biden is legally president-elect of the United States; that violence in pursuit of political ends is a deep wrong and those who participate in it should be punished to the full extent of the law; that broad claims regarding invasion of rights ought to be backed by compelling evidence.
But we won't.
That's because while the Democratic Party and the political left agree that Joe Biden is president-elect, they absolutely disagree with both the fundamental precept that violence in pursuit of political ends is a deep wrong and the even more fundamental precept that claims require evidence. We saw that this summer when Democratic Party officials made light of riots spreading across the nation in the name of yet another lie -- the lie that America is systemically racist, rooted in slavery and Jim Crow, and replete with bigoted police dedicated to endangering black lives. Democrats demanded no evidence to support those claims; in knee-jerk fashion, they simply repeated ad nauseam untruths about the existential threat to black Americans in the United States. Which means that for the Democrats and the political left, violence is fine so long as it supports their narrative, and un-evidenced claims are fine so long as they support an agenda.
In order to defend such violence, the political left has mobilized behind another convenient and advantageous lie: the lie that the Capitol riots represent all conservatives and Republicans. Paul Krugman of The New York Times suggested that the "putsch was decades in the making," chalking up the rioting to "Republican elites" since before Ronald Reagan. The Washington Post amplified a nutty post from the chairman of the Nye County Republican Party in Nevada into a referendum on a "long-festering struggle within the Republican Party over conspiracy theories, purity tests and fealty to the rule of law." Members of the media gleefully hunted for Republicans to blame for the Capitol riots, calling for the deplatforming of brand-name conservatives and cheering on social media crackdowns.
Lies are dangerous. And double standards are perhaps the most dangerous form of lying: They grant the bravery of purity to those most willing to defy decency, prompting similar spasms of cruelty and malice from the other side. The solution to our national crisis of conscience isn't bad-faith political purges or repetition of tiresome falsehoods about the nature of the United States. It's truth.
But truth is more a shield than a sword. And we are now in the age of swords, wielded aggressively by those with little principle but an unending sense of their own moral superiority.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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World Exhales as Madness of the Trump Era Ends | RealClearPolitics
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Mitch McConnell's Impeachment Endgame | RealClearPolitics
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Republicans & Democrats Split Over Freedom of Speech | RealClearPolitics
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Republicans & Democrats Split Over Freedom of Speech
Allies of president claim company restricted free speech but opponents say suspension was long overdue
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Biden Seeks to Define Tenure w/Early Emphasis on Equity | RealClearPolitics
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Only two presidents before him have used their first weeks in office to push for equality with the same force, according to one historian.
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To Hell With the National Baseball Hall of Fame | RealClearPolitics
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To Hell With the National Baseball Hall of Fame
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame voters have decided, collectively, not to elect anyone to the Hall this year. Curt Schilling came the closest to obtaining the required 75 percent of the votes. He collected 71.1 percent, falling 16 votes short. Schilling's exclusion is a travesty. He clearly had a Hall of Fame caliber career. As I wrote last year around this time: Schilling’s career WAR (wins above replacement player) is 80.5. That’s just behind Bob Gibson and just ahead of Tom Glavine and Carl Hubbell. All three are generally considered upper tier Hall of Famers.
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Washington has become the octagon, where trophies for political one-upmanship are handed out like candy, and scandals (real or imagined) are packaged as...
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'Compromise' Isn't a Dirty Word -- It's Our Salvation
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Washington has become the “octagon,” where trophies for political one-upmanship are handed out like candy, and scandals (real or imagined) are packaged as the top news of the day.
Yet in a nation yearning for character, and with a new president committing to unity , there’s a real opening for Washington’s elected officials to do something wholly unexpected but desperately needed: “compromise.”
While that word sounds like an expletive to many in the political trenches who habitually counsel against vacillation and temerity, these hyper-partisan political warriors are mistaken. History teaches us that compromise is often the only way to break political gridlock. Right now, it is the only way America can dream big and go big. The only way to overcome a pandemic that refuses to relent and save small businesses that refuse to quit; to re-imagine a future where protecting a warming planet doesn’t leave American workers out in the cold; to stop the growing incivility that fuels hatred instead of harnessing hope.
The good news: We’ve done this before. In a nation forged by diversity and common interest, compromise yielded some of America’s biggest breakthroughs and boldest statements of humanity.
In 1787 Roger Sherman , a Connecticut farmer, shoemaker and justice, helped craft the “Great Compromise .” With the nation’s Founders worried the will of the people would not prevail over the landed and powerful (“[people] want information and are constantly liable to be misled ”), Sherman fashioned a remedy: equal representation of states in the Senate but proportional representation in the House.
Nearly a century later, Abraham Lincoln recruited a “team of rivals” ( William Seward , Salmon P. Chase and Edward Bates ) to put aside their differences, their animosities, their personal ambitions, to save a nation tearing itself apart from within. As historian Doris Kearns Goodwin observed, “[Lincoln’s] philosophy was not to waste precious energies on recriminations about the past.”
It’s a philosophy that presidents and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have employed many time since, at crucial pivot points in America’s long evolution, in search of a more perfect union. Consider:
-- In the 1940s, the Marshall Plan and NATO were all made possible when influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican and a onetime isolationist, took it upon himself to forge bipartisan support for the Truman Doctrine. “Partisan politics,” Vandenberg said at the beginning of the 80th Congress, should stop “at the water’s edge.”
-- In the 1960s, major civil rights legislation became law in this country because a venerable Republican Senate leader (Everett Dirksen) and dedicated young Democratic reformer (Sen. Hubert Humphrey) hammered out a meticulous compromise with the shared aim of breaking a filibuster by Southern Democrats. “Stronger than all the armies,” Dirksen said on the Senate floor, quoting Victor Hugo, “is an idea whose time has come.” Needing 67 votes, Dirksen and Humphrey got 71. The result was The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
-- In the 1990s, after sweeping Clinton administration health care legislation floundered on Capitol Hill, Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and Utah Republican Orrin Hatch decided to solve a huge and growing national humanitarian crisis: the children of the working poor whose parents couldn’t afford medical insurance but made too much to qualify for Medicaid. Their solution was the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program. “Senator Kennedy and I designed our bill to fill this gap and meet those needs,” Hatch said three years ago when CHIP was reauthorized for six more years. Today, it’s hard to find anyone who opposes it.
That’s what the best political compromises do: They help form a new consensus. Compromise-turned-consensus also created Medicare, funded American’s journey to the moon, saved Social Security from insolvency, and more recently saved lives by streamlining the approval process for getting life-saving drugs to market. We need such greatness now from those we’ve chosen to lead the way.
It begins by recognizing no party has a monopoly on virtue or a claim to omniscience, that there are different ways to blaze a common path without setting each other on rhetorical fire. It begins by tabling the rancor of now (an impeachment trial, calls for de-programming non-believers, venom from outside groups profiting from COVID-fueled distress) in favor of addressing the crises of now.
It also means embracing the public’s message from last November. More than 155 million Americans voted for a virtually split House and Senate -- voters whose ideological bent is neither left nor right but forward.
To succeed, we again need the kind of unity only compromise can encourage and sustain. That means listening, adapting, considering, and melding, while vowing to move not as combatants but as patriots.
All eyes in Washington are on the Senate these days, to see if a group of relatively moderate members (Joe Manchin , Michael Bennet , Mark Warner and Jon Tester among the Democrats; Susan Collins , Lisa Murkowski , Mitt Romney and Richard Shelby among the Republicans) can prove compromise is not a dirty word but rather a path to national salvation.
Pull for them, because greatness is not achieved through righteousness but secured by selflessness.
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"Washington has become the “octagon,” where trophies for political one-upmanship are handed out like candy, and scandals (real or imagined) are packaged as the top news of the day.\nYet in a nation yearning for character, and with a new president committing to unity , there’s a real opening for Washington’s elected officials to do something wholly unexpected but desperately needed: “compromise.”\nWhile that word sounds like an expletive to many in the political trenches who habitually counsel against vacillation and temerity, these hyper-partisan political warriors are mistaken. History teaches us that compromise is often the only way to break political gridlock. Right now, it is the only way America can dream big and go big. The only way to overcome a pandemic that refuses to relent and save small businesses that refuse to quit; to re-imagine a future where protecting a warming planet doesn’t leave American workers out in the cold; to stop the growing incivility that fuels hatred instead of harnessing hope.\nThe good news: We’ve done this before. In a nation forged by diversity and common interest, compromise yielded some of America’s biggest breakthroughs and boldest statements of humanity.\nIn 1787 Roger Sherman , a Connecticut farmer, shoemaker and justice, helped craft the “Great Compromise .” With the nation’s Founders worried the will of the people would not prevail over the landed and powerful (“[people] want information and are constantly liable to be misled ”), Sherman fashioned a remedy: equal representation of states in the Senate but proportional representation in the House.\nNearly a century later, Abraham Lincoln recruited a “team of rivals” ( William Seward , Salmon P. Chase and Edward Bates ) to put aside their differences, their animosities, their personal ambitions, to save a nation tearing itself apart from within. As historian Doris Kearns Goodwin observed, “[Lincoln’s] philosophy was not to waste precious energies on recriminations about the past.”\nIt’s a philosophy that presidents and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have employed many time since, at crucial pivot points in America’s long evolution, in search of a more perfect union. Consider:\n-- In the 1940s, the Marshall Plan and NATO were all made possible when influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican and a onetime isolationist, took it upon himself to forge bipartisan support for the Truman Doctrine. “Partisan politics,” Vandenberg said at the beginning of the 80th Congress, should stop “at the water’s edge.”\n-- In the 1960s, major civil rights legislation became law in this country because a venerable Republican Senate leader (Everett Dirksen) and dedicated young Democratic reformer (Sen. Hubert Humphrey) hammered out a meticulous compromise with the shared aim of breaking a filibuster by Southern Democrats. “Stronger than all the armies,” Dirksen said on the Senate floor, quoting Victor Hugo, “is an idea whose time has come.” Needing 67 votes, Dirksen and Humphrey got 71. The result was The Civil Rights Act of 1964.\n-- In the 1990s, after sweeping Clinton administration health care legislation floundered on Capitol Hill, Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and Utah Republican Orrin Hatch decided to solve a huge and growing national humanitarian crisis: the children of the working poor whose parents couldn’t afford medical insurance but made too much to qualify for Medicaid. Their solution was the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program. “Senator Kennedy and I designed our bill to fill this gap and meet those needs,” Hatch said three years ago when CHIP was reauthorized for six more years. Today, it’s hard to find anyone who opposes it.\nThat’s what the best political compromises do: They help form a new consensus. Compromise-turned-consensus also created Medicare, funded American’s journey to the moon, saved Social Security from insolvency, and more recently saved lives by streamlining the approval process for getting life-saving drugs to market. We need such greatness now from those we’ve chosen to lead the way.\nIt begins by recognizing no party has a monopoly on virtue or a claim to omniscience, that there are different ways to blaze a common path without setting each other on rhetorical fire. It begins by tabling the rancor of now (an impeachment trial, calls for de-programming non-believers, venom from outside groups profiting from COVID-fueled distress) in favor of addressing the crises of now.\nIt also means embracing the public’s message from last November. More than 155 million Americans voted for a virtually split House and Senate -- voters whose ideological bent is neither left nor right but forward.\nTo succeed, we again need the kind of unity only compromise can encourage and sustain. That means listening, adapting, considering, and melding, while vowing to move not as combatants but as patriots.\nAll eyes in Washington are on the Senate these days, to see if a group of relatively moderate members (Joe Manchin , Michael Bennet , Mark Warner and Jon Tester among the Democrats; Susan Collins , Lisa Murkowski , Mitt Romney and Richard Shelby among the Republicans) can prove compromise is not a dirty word but rather a path to national salvation.\nPull for them, because greatness is not achieved through righteousness but secured by selflessness.",
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QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within | RealClearPolitics
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QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within
Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can't.
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Joe Biden's War on Women | RealClearPolitics
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Make America California? | RealClearPolitics
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The Biden administration seems determined to run the country on the ruinous model of the Golden State.
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Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said that the Senate does not have the authority to convict President Trump for articles of impeachment after the end of his term in office, during a conversation on Maria Bartiromo's "Sunday Morning Futures" on FOX News.
"If you can impeach anyone who is not a sitting president, there are no limits to the power of the Congress to try ordinary citizens," Dershowitz said. "It is plainly unconstitutional."
ALAN DERSHOWITZ, FORMER TRUMP IMPEACHMENT DEFENSE TEAM MEMBER: It will be unconstitutional, but that probably won't bother the senators.
The Constitution is very clear. The subject, the object, the purpose of impeachment is to remove a sitting precedent. And there are two precedents. One is very obvious. When President Nixon resigned in anticipation of being impeached and removed, there was no effort to impeach him after he left office. It was clear that the Senate had lost jurisdiction at that point.
The proponents cite another precedent. In 1876, there was a failed effort, a failed effort to remove the secretary of war. In an initial vote, the Senate voted close, in a close vote, that they did have jurisdiction to try somebody who had resigned.
But then, when it came to a vote on the merits, they lost, because 27 or so senators voted that they did not have jurisdiction. Those senators were right. There is no jurisdiction. You cannot put citizen Trump on trial. If you could do that, it would be a bill of attainder, number one, putting somebody on trial who was not a sitting president.
And, number two, the implications would be horrendous. It would mean that if, the Republicans came up with a terrific candidate, say, not Donald Trump, to run against President Biden in 2024, the Democrats could simply impeach him.
If you can impeach anyone who is not a sitting president, there are no limits to the power of the Congress to try ordinary citizens. It is plainly unconstitutional. And the Senate should not proceed with this unconstitutional act.
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ALAN DERSHOWITZ, FORMER TRUMP IMPEACHMENT DEFENSE TEAM MEMBER: It will be unconstitutional, but that probably won't bother the senators.
The Constitution is very clear. The subject, the object, the purpose of impeachment is to remove a sitting precedent. And there are two precedents. One is very obvious. When President Nixon resigned in anticipation of being impeached and removed, there was no effort to impeach him after he left office. It was clear that the Senate had lost jurisdiction at that point.
The proponents cite another precedent. In 1876, there was a failed effort, a failed effort to remove the secretary of war. In an initial vote, the Senate voted close, in a close vote, that they did have jurisdiction to try somebody who had resigned.
But then, when it came to a vote on the merits, they lost, because 27 or so senators voted that they did not have jurisdiction. Those senators were right. There is no jurisdiction. You cannot put citizen Trump on trial. If you could do that, it would be a bill of attainder, number one, putting somebody on trial who was not a sitting president.
And, number two, the implications would be horrendous. It would mean that if, the Republicans came up with a terrific candidate, say, not Donald Trump, to run against President Biden in 2024, the Democrats could simply impeach him.
If you can impeach anyone who is not a sitting president, there are no limits to the power of the Congress to try ordinary citizens. It is plainly unconstitutional. And the Senate should not proceed with this unconstitutional act.
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said that the Senate does not have the authority to convict President Trump for articles of impeachment after the end of his term in office, during a conversation on Maria Bartiromo's "Sunday Morning Futures" on FOX News."If you can impeach anyone who is not a sitting president, there are no limits to the power of the Congress to try ordinary citizens," Dershowitz said. "It is plainly unconstitutional."
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"ALAN DERSHOWITZ, FORMER TRUMP IMPEACHMENT DEFENSE TEAM MEMBER: It will be unconstitutional, but that probably won't bother the senators.\nThe Constitution is very clear. The subject, the object, the purpose of impeachment is to remove a sitting precedent. And there are two precedents. One is very obvious. When President Nixon resigned in anticipation of being impeached and removed, there was no effort to impeach him after he left office. It was clear that the Senate had lost jurisdiction at that point.\nThe proponents cite another precedent. In 1876, there was a failed effort, a failed effort to remove the secretary of war. In an initial vote, the Senate voted close, in a close vote, that they did have jurisdiction to try somebody who had resigned.\nBut then, when it came to a vote on the merits, they lost, because 27 or so senators voted that they did not have jurisdiction. Those senators were right. There is no jurisdiction. You cannot put citizen Trump on trial. If you could do that, it would be a bill of attainder, number one, putting somebody on trial who was not a sitting president.\nAnd, number two, the implications would be horrendous. It would mean that if, the Republicans came up with a terrific candidate, say, not Donald Trump, to run against President Biden in 2024, the Democrats could simply impeach him.\nIf you can impeach anyone who is not a sitting president, there are no limits to the power of the Congress to try ordinary citizens. It is plainly unconstitutional. And the Senate should not proceed with this unconstitutional act.\nHarvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said that the Senate does not have the authority to convict President Trump for articles of impeachment after the end of his term in office, during a conversation on Maria Bartiromo's \"Sunday Morning Futures\" on FOX News.\"If you can impeach anyone who is not a sitting president, there are no limits to the power of the Congress to try ordinary citizens,\" Dershowitz said. \"It is plainly unconstitutional.\"",
"Dershowitz: The Senate Can Not Legally Put Citizen Trump On Trial",
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The next time an insurgent mob arrives to sack the Capitol, if one happens to try between now and Inauguration Day, mere strength of numbers will not overwhelm the defenses. In the 10 days since the January 6 assault on Congress, the Secret Service has overseen the establishment of an instant “green zone,” fortified by eight-foot steel barriers and patrolled by some 20,000 National Guardsmen. Those are real bullets in the magazines of their Army-issued M-4 assault rifles, not at all the standard gear for maintaining civic order.
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Seven Ways 2020 Left America Exposed | RealClearPolitics
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Seven Ways 2020 Left America Exposed
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The coronavirus and a near-catastrophic election showed Donald Trump is a symptom not a cause of what ails US society
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How Trump's Georgia Rally Could Backfire | RealClearPolitics
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Paul vs. Stephanopoulos Should Be Model for Republicans | RealClearPolitics
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Paul vs. Stephanopoulos Should Be Model for Republicans
Every single Republican lawmaker and figurehead should be required to watch the Rand Paul clip as a clinic for how to take on the left-wing media.
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"Paul vs. Stephanopoulos Should Be Model for Republicans\nEvery single Republican lawmaker and figurehead should be required to watch the Rand Paul clip as a clinic for how to take on the left-wing media.",
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Whiteness Is at the Core of the Insurrection | RealClearPolitics
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Whiteness Is at the Core of the Insurrection
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Whiteness Is at the Core of the Insurrection
The answer to how the Capitol riots happened is right in front of us.
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| 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
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"Whiteness Is at the Core of the Insurrection\nThe answer to how the Capitol riots happened is right in front of us.",
"Whiteness Is at the Core of the Insurrection",
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The Media's Cynical 'Sedition' Smear | RealClearPolitics
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The Media's Cynical 'Sedition' Smear
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The term is being casually flung about, with little distinction between wrong-headed lawmakers and the rioters themselves.
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"The Media's Cynical 'Sedition' Smear",
"The Media's Cynical 'Sedition' Smear | RealClearPolitics"
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