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I agree with ⁦@dandrezner⁩’s take that whoever Biden picks should have strong presidential ambitions and a readiness to govern. But the strongest candidate who meets both criteria is Warren! washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
I wrote this back in May! nytimes.com/2020/05/13/opi…
Not for nothing, they already talk and correspond regularly about policy and governance. wbur.org/news/2020/07/2…
Having said all of this, I think @dandrezner is right that of Kamala Harris, Susan Rice and Karen Bass, Harris is the obvious best choice. Not because she is without serious substantive issues, but because she is incredibly ambitious and so clearly wants to be president.
Given that these are, at core, political jobs that require high-level political instincts, “How much do you want to be the nation’s most prominent politician” is, to me, one of the most important questions to ask.
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you could call these people the children of Rush Limbaugh; political entertainers with a vested interest in gridlock, dysfunction and hyper-polarization. they may be sincere conservatives but they have no actual interest in governing or government. nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/…
and like limbaugh, they are so influential among conservative voters that they shape the incentive structure of republican politicians, who adopt a similar tone, style and approach, giving even more material for entertainers to use, creating a destructive feedback loop.
trump was the best thing that could possibly happen for these people. a republican president consumed with grievance and exclusively interested in waging culture wars against perceived enemies.
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Open and constructive discourse of the kind Sullivan says he wants depends on a generosity and good faith that he is incapable of showing when the subject is racism and issues related to black people.
That Michael Brown did not say "hands up, don't shoot" does not erase or negate the meaning contained in the phrase or its resonance for protesters and their allies. This happens all the time in politics, where clarity of communication is paramount.
It is fair to note the facts behind Brown's death. What is ungenerous and bad faith is to declare, as Sullivan does, that those facts invalidate the ways in which those words capture something true about the world, which resonates with protesters.
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the funny thing about the recurring attention on the 1619 project is how it no longer really exists as a discrete package of arguments and observations and art from a variety of different writers and artists. it’s essentially a totem for “wokeness run amok” or some such thing.
one of the essays in the package is on the history of medical racism; another is on the relationship between race and the social safety net. seems strange, to me, to say that they are part of an “attack on the values and ideals of the Founding.”
but that’s the thing about taking the package on its own terms, versus as a stand-in for some battle in the culture wars. there are still plenty of places for critique and disagreement, but it’s also hard to sustain the idea that its some broad, revisionist attack on History.
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