Appreciate the always insightful @ThePlumLineGS citing my work around the need for the GOP to start finding "off-ramps,"and begin a purposeful de-radicalization effort from MAGA.....(1/x)
While it is my hope the Rs begin to walk away from MAGA and its mad leader, if they don't Democrats need to use the opening this savage attack we are seeing on our democracy gives us w/R voters to label rest of agenda just as crazy.
As I write in this piece, opening Dems have now is to label R positions on the economy, climate, guns, health care, race, etc just as radical and dangerous as its position on our democracy itself. (3/x)
The GOP's abandonment of its Lincoln and Reagan roots and going full-on authoritarian MAGA can't be understood as a normal political moment in American history.
MAGA is an extremist movement at odds with American/Western democracy.
From the 2017 IC Russia Report: support of Trump was part of ongoing effort "to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order…. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process.”
Alignment of MAGA w/Putin's global agenda needs to be talked about.
COVID may have come from China, but MAGA/America First is a ideological virus which came from Russia, and one that may end up doing more harm to America and the West than COVID itself.
With the Brazilian variant ravaging South America, Colombia seeing COVID related unrest, AMLO playing vaccine games with the Russians, it’s time now for the US to launch a major effort to defeat COVID in the Americas. link.medium.com/B94FGG8WYfb
All those so concerned about flows of migrants to the border should be calling for a comprehensive plan to defeat COVID and build back better in the Americas.
Economic and societal stress to our South will drive migrants North.
Hard cold reality here is that Trump, Rudy, Parnas, Fruman and members of the President's cabinet were part of an illegal conspiracy to blackmail Ukraine into helping Trump in the election.
Level of danger for all involved, if pursued, is significant.
Below is a little refresher on the illegal Ukraine conspiracy; and a reminder that members of that conspiracy have already been arrested and appear to be cooperating with the prosecutors.
Level of legal danger here for MAGA world significant.
We have to recall that the original sounding of the alarm about the criminality of this Ukraine conspiracy came from the Trump appointed General Counsel of the CIA.
Successfully legalizing the 11m undocumented who are already here is a long overdue step critical to building consensus around more strategic and sensible immigration policies.
The other simple reality is that if our global companies don't have the workers to fill jobs here - either due to number or skill - then they have to grow those capacities and jobs elsewhere.
Smart immigration policies keep jobs here at home.
Here's @paulkrugman on the stalling of prime age workers.
How do our companies and our economy grow if they don't have workers to fill the jobs?
Our national narrative hasn't yet come to terms with Trump's unprecedented betrayal of the country. No American President has ever challenged the fundamental rationale for our founding as Trump did.
Decades of GOP policy nihilism and political hysteria on the border and immigration has made it far harder for the US to fashion a smart set of lasting solutions to these challenges.
But Biden must lean into these issues now, and work through them.