Monday, August 24, 2020

Reading archive 2020-08-24

The absurd claim that Trump is the ‘most pro-gay president in American history’

Prominent Russian opposition activist Navalny was poisoned, German doctors say

Mike Pence hopes four years of subservience to Trump will lift his political future

The Grand Old Meltdown: What happens when a party gives up on ideas? - "It can now safely be said, as his first term in the White House draws toward closure, that Donald Trump’s party is the very definition of a cult of personality. It stands for no special ideal. It possesses no organizing principle. It represents no detailed vision for governing. Filling the vacuum is a lazy, identity-based populism that draws from that lowest common denominator Sanford alluded to. If it agitates the base, if it lights up a Fox News chyron, if it serves to alienate sturdy real Americans from delicate coastal elites, then it’s got a place in the Grand Old Party."

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