Post by midcan5 on May 25, 2016 6:52:56 GMT -5
Hopefully the subject gets some attention.
'The Dangerous Acceptance Of Donald Trump' By Adam Gopnik
"The American Republic stands threatened by the first overtly anti-democratic leader of a large party in its modern history—an authoritarian with no grasp of history, no impulse control, and no apparent barriers on his will to power. The right thing to do, for everyone who believes in liberal democracy, is to gather around and work to defeat him on Election Day. Instead, we seem to be either engaged in parochial feuding or caught by habits of tribal hatred so ingrained that they have become impossible to escape even at moments of maximum danger. Bernie Sanders wouldn’t mind bringing down the Democratic Party to prevent it from surrendering to corporate forces — and yet he may be increasing the possibility of rule -by- billionaire." www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-dangerous-acceptance-of-donald-trump
"In his 2012 book It's Even Worse Than It Looks, co-written with Thomas Mann, he argued that the GOP had become "an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.""
www.vox.com/2016/5/6/11598838/donald-trump-predictions-norm-ornstein
'This is how fascism comes to America'
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html
"The ad mocks Trump’s ability to unify, but that’s exactly what’s happening. Christie, Gingrich, and Rick Scott are with him. Palin, Ben Carson, Ralph Reed, Trent Lott. Hell, even Dole. He always was a party man first." www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/dick-nixon-to-hillary-clinton-you-can-t-rise-above-fear-without-abandoning-hope.html
"That means the liberal-media conspiracy will become a central and unquestioned piece of the GOP’s inevitable 2016 revisionism. But everyone on the political right articulating this theory—everyone who knows how campaigns work, at least, and understands their interplay with media—will be consciously perpetuating a myth. And in so doing, they’ll be passing off blame that rightfully belongs to them." newrepublic.com/article/133507/wackiest-donald-trump-conspiracy-theory-yet
"When a faithfully married black president who was the son of a single-mother, the first black editor of Harvard Law review and a professor of constitutional law is considered unintelligent, immoral, and anti-American by the right while a xenophobic, misogynistic, "serially philandering", trust fund kid who quotes from the National Enquirer, peddles conspiracy theories, routinely calls women ugly and fat, calls McCain a loser for having been a prisoner of war, and who has advocated torture and the bombing of women and children has captured the hearts of a majority of Republicans. This is white supremacy folks. Plain and simple." Adam Gelvan
'The Dangerous Acceptance Of Donald Trump' By Adam Gopnik
"The American Republic stands threatened by the first overtly anti-democratic leader of a large party in its modern history—an authoritarian with no grasp of history, no impulse control, and no apparent barriers on his will to power. The right thing to do, for everyone who believes in liberal democracy, is to gather around and work to defeat him on Election Day. Instead, we seem to be either engaged in parochial feuding or caught by habits of tribal hatred so ingrained that they have become impossible to escape even at moments of maximum danger. Bernie Sanders wouldn’t mind bringing down the Democratic Party to prevent it from surrendering to corporate forces — and yet he may be increasing the possibility of rule -by- billionaire." www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-dangerous-acceptance-of-donald-trump
"In his 2012 book It's Even Worse Than It Looks, co-written with Thomas Mann, he argued that the GOP had become "an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.""
www.vox.com/2016/5/6/11598838/donald-trump-predictions-norm-ornstein
'This is how fascism comes to America'
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html
"The ad mocks Trump’s ability to unify, but that’s exactly what’s happening. Christie, Gingrich, and Rick Scott are with him. Palin, Ben Carson, Ralph Reed, Trent Lott. Hell, even Dole. He always was a party man first." www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/dick-nixon-to-hillary-clinton-you-can-t-rise-above-fear-without-abandoning-hope.html
"That means the liberal-media conspiracy will become a central and unquestioned piece of the GOP’s inevitable 2016 revisionism. But everyone on the political right articulating this theory—everyone who knows how campaigns work, at least, and understands their interplay with media—will be consciously perpetuating a myth. And in so doing, they’ll be passing off blame that rightfully belongs to them." newrepublic.com/article/133507/wackiest-donald-trump-conspiracy-theory-yet
"When a faithfully married black president who was the son of a single-mother, the first black editor of Harvard Law review and a professor of constitutional law is considered unintelligent, immoral, and anti-American by the right while a xenophobic, misogynistic, "serially philandering", trust fund kid who quotes from the National Enquirer, peddles conspiracy theories, routinely calls women ugly and fat, calls McCain a loser for having been a prisoner of war, and who has advocated torture and the bombing of women and children has captured the hearts of a majority of Republicans. This is white supremacy folks. Plain and simple." Adam Gelvan