Having been in New York State for the past 11 months it’s hard to do justice to what a shock to the system it is to be in place where people walk down the street maskless. Like “it’s hard to compute” shocking
Last night we went to an ice cream parlor and not only were the customers not wearing the mask ... neither were the people serving ice cream. I still can’t get over that.
I should add that most people here (Manatee County, Florida) are wearing masks but a sizable minority are not. Perhaps not unexpectedly, this county went 57-43 for Trump
In New York people will pull up masks when passing others in the sidewalks. There’s none of that here. I had to ask someone who was maskless to not stand so close to me (we were indoors) and rather than apologize he got pissed off. Just a very different culture
One phenomenon I notice is couples in which the woman is wearing a mask and the man is not
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THREAD: Today is my last day as an opinion columnist at the Boston Globe - after 6.5 years. It has been the best job I've ever had. I've loved every minute of it.
My father grew up in Boston reading the Globe & it's hard for me to put into words what a great honor it was to write for this newspaper, which is one of the best in America. And it's been a uniquely humbling experience to have this platform during a time of great national peril
While I would preferred to leave the Globe under different circumstances I have nothing but positive feelings for my time there. Every day was a privilege.
Tomorrow is my last day as an opinion columnist at the Boston Globe ... so forgive me for the public navel-gazing but I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few of the columns that I'm most proud of.
The first is an essay I wrote last December on why I'd changed my mind about Joe Biden and why after spending a few days with him on his "No Malarkey" bus tour in Iowa I was convinced that he would be the Democratic nominee in 2020 bostonglobe.com/2019/12/13/opi…
The second is an essay I wrote in March 2019 on Elizabeth Warren, asking if the country was ready for her angry, populist message - and why I suspected it might not be bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/0…
My latest for Truth and Consequences on why Congressional Republicans are so afraid to challenge not only Trump but the growing craziness within their own party truthandcons.substack.com/p/if-i-only-ha…
Senate Republicans can look at the furious political backlash against the ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump and see all the reason they need not to convict Trump ...
... .. but don't underestimate the importance to Republicans of NOT making liberals happy by convicting Trump. The worst thing you can do these days as a Republican is give Democrats a lay-up.
In my latest for Truth and Consequences I argue that Mitch McConnell showed his hand yesterday on Trump's coming impeachment trial ... and it doesn't look good for the soon-to-be former president truthandcons.substack.com/p/its-starting…
If the GOP is going to jettison Donald Trump now is the time to do it, when his political standing is the lowest and his megaphone is the weakest.
Turning on Trump will allow McConnell to present congressional Republicans as cut from a different cloth than the former president - committed to the nation's democracy and the rule of law. It's hogwash, but it might actually work
In my latest for Truth and Consequences I have a few thoughts on the coward Ben Sasse and his efforts to deflect from years of enabling Donald Trump truthandcons.substack.com/p/the-cowardly…
In 2016, Ben Sasse was a critic of Donald Trump - even refusing to endorse him in the presidential election. In Trump's first two years he frequently criticized him ... then in 2019 he switched up when he was trying to deflect a primary challenge
In early 2020 he refused to vote to convict Trump in the impeachment trial and largely kept silent about the president's mismanagement of the pandemic .. then in October 2019 began criticizing him again, once he was on his way to reelection.