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Good god. "The president said testing for Covid-19 was overrated and allowed for the possibility that some Americans wore facial coverings not as a preventative measure but as a way to signal disapproval of him." wsj.com/articles/trump…
Good. God.
"Mr. Trump said he didn’t bring any black supporters to the church because there were none at the White House."

Someone help me stop reading this interview.
Trump's efforts to make a culture war out of masks is working:

“Even in Yakima, where we’re one of the worst zones in the country, people aren’t wearing masks solely because it’s a Republican-Democrat issue now. It’s embarrassing.”

nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/…
The culture war over masks is going to lead directly to unnecessary deaths. And it is 1000% the right's responsibility.
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Bolton's book contains the shocking revelation that Trump is exactly what he appears to be & behaves exactly the way he has always behaved. nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/…
"It is a withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse."
Pompeo understands the deal he's made with the devil perfectly.
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One thing this country needs, intellectually speaking, is a way for people & institutions to acknowledge that the GOP has become a radical threat to democracy *without* feeling like they thereby become Dem partisans.
FYI, I was not primarily referring to Rs. I'm referring to people & institutions that view themselves as nonpartisan referees -- journalism, the bar, science, etc. They need to avoid partisan allegiance but they also need to stand up to defend the basic principles of democracy.
The Dems-v-Rs frame has occluded everything else. We need to be able to see a different set of sides: those committed to truth, equality under law, & democratic participation vs. authoritarian ethnonationalists. That *overlaps* w/ the partisan fight but is not the same thing.
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Something I've been curious about & would like to read more on: seems to me one of the major factors in the militarization of police is America's insane lack of gun restrictions. Police go into every single encounter thinking that they could be shot because *it's true*.
I mean, literally anybody could have a gun & be upset enough to use it -- a traffic stop, a domestic abuse call, even just a routine patrol. How could you police an insane society like that without becoming paranoid & violent?
So I'm wondering how (or whether) the defund-the-police movement is connecting up with gun-law reformers. Seems like they're properly part of a package. Is this a thing?
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