While Republicans are running their "unity" scam in the media, Biden just rolled out new policies that would channel large amounts of resources into rural America -- into Trump country. I looked at how these policies constitute *actual* unifying efforts: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Biden's Covid blueprint beefs up protections for workers, many in meatpacking plants in rural areas.
His use of Defense Production Act will employ industrial policy to channel resources to non-metro areas in a way conservative populists want.
Trump used coronavirus to relentlessly stoke civil and regional conflict.
Biden is offering a national Covid strategy that channels resources into helping all Americans, including or especially in rural areas, i.e., Trump country.
Don't get snowed by fake GOP outrage about Biden's criticism of right wing extremism. It's a sucker's game, a bad-faith effort to redefine "unity" as agreeing to absolve Republicans from blame for enabling Trump and his attack on our country. My latest: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
It's bizarre. Biden called out racism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism.
Republicans promptly decided that in condemning those things, Biden was actually talking about them.
This may seem like standard bad faith. But there's a deeper ploy here:
Because Biden was 100% correct. The real threat to unity in this country — to civic peace, to democratic coexistence, to mutual acknowledgment of the legitimacy of the opposition — absolutely is right wing extremism:
It's a fitting end to this disaster that Trump is boasting about his corporate tax cut while pardoning the architect of his "economic populism" to protect him from charges that he literally ripped off Trump's own supporters.
Senate Dems will introduce a sweeping pro-democracy bill today as the first bill under their new majority. Includes automatic voter registration, rehabbing Voting Rights Act, and more.
It's the Dem answer to Trump's assault on our democracy:
One quick correction: The bill will be announced today, not introduced. It's the first honorary bill of the new Senate, S1. Dem aide says Schumer will ensure it gets a vote, though unclear when.
Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are playing a slimy game: They're disowning the insurrection without retracting their support for the big lie that incited it. But they have a problem: New video shows unambiguously that the lie did drive the assault. My latest: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
As former DHS official @juliettekayyem tells me, the memo shows:
"His own intelligence agencies” have concluded that “the lie that the election was stolen, which Trump continues to nurture, will motivate violence in the future.”