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All these explanations for Buttigieg working for McKinsey are EXPLANATIONS THAT HE COULD CHOOSE TO OFFER BUT HAS NOT CHOSEN TO OFFER.
I know lots of people who did a stint in corporate law, and if you asked them why, they’d say “Yeah, it sucked, but I had loans, and I wanted to get out from under them so I could start doing real work.” Pete could say that if he wanted. That’s not what he’s saying.
Never offer excuses for a politician’s actions that they’re not willing to offer for themselves.
Or do, if you like, but acknowledge that you’re doing it. Keep your thumb off the scale.
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I take my students to the Metropolitan Museum every semester. They use their phones to research the art, and to take notes for later—even though they know I'm not going to test them on that knowledge. Phones in museums are good. (Also, between tours, I [gasp] check Twitter.)
My students, for the record, are community college students from the Bronx. Most of them have never been to the Met before, despite living a 20-30 minute subway ride away.
And if I turned them loose in a gallery like the one above without any contextualization, most of them would be bored to tears—as I was, despite growing up going to the Met for fun, before I started researching those paintings that I could lead my students on those tours.
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Just one thing about the fact that Biden is telling people that they should keep voting for Republicans because if the GOP lost support it would be bad for democracy: He said the exact same thing at the height of Watergate.
Joe Biden, 2019: It would be bad for America if voters abandoned the GOP and became Democrats in the wake of Trump.

Joe Biden, 1973: The same, but for Watergate.
If you want to know whether Biden understands that the rot in today's Republican Party is a threat to democracy, and whether he's going to take action to stop it, just ask him. He's nothing if not consistent.
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How did I not know that the white supremacist Jared Taylor was a VIP guest at Trump's inauguration?
The explicit, open ties between the mainstream GOP and overt, frothing white supremacists are so much more extensive than conventional wisdom acknowledges. It's a massive failure of the media and the Democratic Party.
Jared Taylor's Wikipedia page has a "Donald Trump" section but no reference to his presence as an invited guest at the inauguration. If anyone has sufficient editing privileges to add that, it'd be a worthwhile use of five minutes.
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