Greg Sargent talks with Jess McIntosh about the scam Trump is now engaged in, trying to soft-peddle the Republican position on abortion and same-sex marriage to appeal to undecided voters and suburban women — when the voters driving the party, its white Christian nationalist base, have no intention of letting the party soften its positions on these issues.
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 00:10:34 JST William Lindsey :toad:
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:14:47 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"In an era when the rise of rightwing nationalism has coincided with declining trust in mainstream politics, this is an outcome to celebrate. ... A high turnout across France led to millions of voters burying very real differences to join forces against it. They did so in order to see off a party whose xenophobic core is at odds with republican values of equality and inclusion."
~ The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/08/the-guardian-view-on-the-french-election-time-to-build-a-republican-future
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 21:51:58 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"It is one thing to suggest that Biden is not energetic enough to effectively run for office in such a crucial moment, or that he has lost his fast ball and should step aside for a new generation of leadership."
~ Oliver Darcy
#Biden #Trump #media #FeedingFrenzy
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 21:51:57 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"The fervor of the pundit class’s demands for the usurpation of Joe Biden—best president of my lifetime, holder of some $91 million in untransferable campaign money, and the freakin’ incumbent—is exceeded only by the preposterousness of its suggestions for how to do so."
~ Greg Olear
#Biden #Trump #media #FeedingFrenzy
/3https://gregolear.substack.com/p/running-man-and-other-suggestions
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 21:51:57 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"But some of the coverage has started to resemble Fox News-levels of hysteria, portraying Biden as a senile figure with debilitating dementia while largely letting his opponent off the hook for the bizarre and sleepy behavior he has recently exhibited."
Perhaps New York Times is showing us that, when push comes to shove, there never has been much essential difference between it and Fox News or New York Post.
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 21:51:56 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"You know I have seen some things in my seven decades covering American politics. I have never seen anything quite like the wrangling, hand-wringing, and behind-the-scenes gamesmanship currently swirling around President Biden. These are compounded by the one-sided media coverage against Biden. And it isn’t over yet."
~ Dan Rather
Of course, Dan Rather is 92 years old, so who would imagine he's worth listening to, anyway?
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 03:40:56 JST William Lindsey :toad:
@KathyLK I'm among those who think we do have to find strands of hope anywhere we can find them — and the victory against the hard right in both the UK and France offers that hope, just as you say, to American voters, too. Which makes it all the more interesting that in threads like this, people purporting to represent progressive viewpoints log in to ridicule those celebrating the results of the UK and French elections. It's almost as if, wearing "progressive" clothes, they're promoting fascism
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 07:01:54 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"President Trump continued to raise concerns about a cognitive decline after he was unable to recognize his closest allies last week. He put out a statement saying 'I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.' Project 2025 is the organizational effort to plan a second Trump administration, staffed by some of Trump’s closest and most loyal aides."
~ Don Moynihan
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-signs-of-cognitive-decline
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 07:01:54 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump claimed Friday on his Truth Social platform that he has “no idea who is behind” Project 2025.
This is another in a long line of Trump lies.
The Project 2025 playbook was written by more than 20 officials who Trump himself appointed during his first term. If he has 'no idea' who they are, he’s showing an alarming cognitive decline."
~ Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/project-2025-is-trumps-brainchild
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:39:16 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Mainstream media have treated President Biden with prejudice and arrogance. …
The Biden administration is being held to standards, while the previous Trump administration is not; and Biden personally is being held to standards, while Trump as a person is not. This helps to generate a fascist aura."
~ Timothy Snyder
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:39:15 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"It should seem odd that media calls to step down were not first directed to Trump. If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside? (The Philadelphia Inquirer did)."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:31:58 JST William Lindsey :toad:
Josh Marshall shares that the news from the French elections is "shockingly good" for those of us who have been alarmed at the precipitous rise of the hard right in Europe.
Many commentators expected Marine Le Pen's party to get a plurality of seats, but in fact it's coming in third not only behind the consolidated parties of the left forming the new United Front, but also behind Macron’s centrist party.
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:33 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump’s attempt to distance himself from Project 2025 indicates just how toxic that plan is with voters. As political scientist Ian Bremmer dryly noted, it seems that 'the second [A]merican revolution apparently [is] not polling as well as the first in internal focus groups.'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Project2025 #authoritarianism #theocracy
/2https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-5-2024-friday
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:33 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"A telling thing happened yesterday. Donald Trump figured out that Project 2025 was toxic. So he’s trying to distance himself. But as numerous commentators noted, that’s an impossible task. He’s inextricably linked to the plan.
Trump IS Project 2025!"
~ David Pepper
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:32 JST William Lindsey :toad:
" Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson was even more direct, saying that Trump was trying to distance himself from Project 2025 because 'most of it polls about like Ebola,' the deadly virus that causes severe bleeding and organ failure, and has a mortality rate of 80 to 90%."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:31 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump claims he’s not connected to Project 2025. That seems like a convenient fiction that the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025, maintains as well. …
I have questions based on Trump’s post itself. How do you 'know nothing' about the Project and have no idea who is behind it, but also know that you disagree with some of the things they’re saying?"
~ Joyce Vance
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:30 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Project 2025 doesn’t contain overt references to Trump. In that regard, it reminds me of the Supreme Court’s opinion in the immunity appeal, Trump v. U.S. The Court pretended it was writing rules for theoretical future presidents. They tried to divorce their decision from the reality that it could let Donald Trump, whom they dismissed without naming him as 'present exigencies,' escape from his effort to overturn the election with no consequences."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:30 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Many of the people working on the Project and many of the chapter authors are former Trump Administration employees or allies. …
[But as Rep. Jared Huffman says,]
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:29 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Hang project 2025 around the GOP’s neck. It's not just Trump but the entire GOP that is complicit in an authoritarian agenda to derail our democracy and chip away at our hard-earned freedoms. Hold them all accountable for Project 2025."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Project2025 #authoritarianism #theocracy
/7https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/hang-project-2025-around-the-gops
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:26:28 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"Democrats can finally learn from Black women, such as Taraji P. Henson, an actress, who stared directly into the camera while hosting the BET Awards last week and spent time warning Americans about the Project 2025 agenda. She helped make this insidious project finally go mainstream. She is not a journalist, most of whom are currently obsessed with Biden’s age, nor a Democratic official, most of whom have lost their spine and fight."