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Collective Guilt and the New Witch Hunt | RealClearPolitics
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Collective Guilt and the New Witch Hunt
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Hatred is at an all-time high in Washington. Will Congress step in to become the arbiters of truth?
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It's Time to Stand Up Against the Muzzling of America | RealClearPolitics
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It's Time to Stand Up Against the Muzzling of America
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Have you checked your social credit score lately? You might want to. Mine seems to have taken a nosedive this month. You might want to see how yours is doing.
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GameStop-Stock Saga Is Dangerous & All Too Familiar | RealClearPolitics
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GameStop-Stock Saga Is Dangerous & All Too Familiar
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As the Federal Reserve surely knows, the longer that speculative bubbles are allowed to inflate, the bigger the eventual bust, and the more negative fallout there is for the economy as a whole.
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WASHINGTON (AP) When Joe Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday outside a wounded U.S. Capitol, he will begin reshaping the office of the presidency...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday outside a wounded U.S. Capitol, he will begin reshaping the office of the presidency itself as he sets out to lead a bitterly divided nation struggling with a devastating pandemic and an insurrection meant to stop his ascension to power.
Biden had campaigned as a rebuke to President Donald Trump, a singular figure whose political power was fueled by discord and grievance. The Democrat framed his election as one to “heal the soul” of the nation and repair the presidency, restoring the White House image as a symbol of stability and credibility.
In ways big and small, Biden will look to change the office he will soon inhabit. Incendiary tweets are out, wonky policy briefings are in. Biden, as much an institutionalist as Trump has been a disruptor, will look to change the tone and priorities of the office.
“It really is about restoring some dignity to the office, about picking truth over lies, unity over division,” Biden said soon after he launched his campaign. “It’s about who we are.”
The White House is about 2 miles up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol, where broken windows, heavy fortifications and hundreds of National Guard members provide a visible reminder of the power of a president’s words. Trump’s supporters left a Jan. 6 rally by the president near the White House to commit violence in his name at the Capitol, laying siege to the citadel of democracy and underscoring the herculean task Biden faces in trying to heal the nation’s searing divisions.
Few presidents have taken on the job having thought more about the mark he wants to make on it than Biden. He has spent more than 40 years in Washington and captured the White House after two previous failed attempts. He frequently praises his former boss, President Barack Obama, as an example of how to lead during crisis.
“Biden’s main task is going to be need to be to reestablish the symbol of the White House to the world as a place of integrity and good governance. Because right now everything is in disarray,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian and professor at Rice University. “But Biden is uniquely situated to do this, his whole life has been spent in Washington and he spent eight years watching the job up close.”
The changes will be sweeping, starting with the president’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed nearly 400,000 American lives. The sharp break from Trump won’t just come in federal policy, but in personal conduct.
Trump flouted the virus, his staff largely eschewing masks in the warren of cramped West Wing offices while the president hosted “superspreader” events at the White House and on the road. Biden’s team is considering having many staffers work from home; those who do enter the building will wear masks. Biden has already been vaccinated, something Trump, who got the virus last fall, has chosen not to do despite suggestions that it would set an example for the nation.
Biden’s approach to the day-to-day responsibilities of the office will also be a break from his predecessor. For one, Twitter won’t be a principal source of news.
Trump’s trail of tweets has roiled the capital for four years. Across Washington, phones would buzz with alerts anytime the president used his most potent political weapon to attack Democrats and keep Republicans in line.
Biden’s tweets tend to be bland news releases and policy details with the occasional “Here’s the deal, folks” thrown in for good measure. Allied lawmakers are unlikely to have to pretend not to have seen the latest posting in order to avoid commenting on it.
Biden has said he wants Americans to view the president as a role model again; no more coarse and demeaning language or racist, divisive rhetoric. His team has promised to restore daily news briefings and the president-elect does not refer to the press as “the enemy of the people.” But it remains to be seen whether he will be as accessible as Trump, who until his postelection hibernation, took more questions from reporters than any of his recent predecessors.
While Trump filled out much of his Cabinet and White House staff with relatives, political neophytes and newcomers to government, Biden has turned to seasoned hands, bringing in Obama administration veterans and career officials.
Policy papers will be back in vogue and governing by cable chyron likely out.
Trump was mostly indifferent to the machinations of Congress, at times appearing to be an observer of his own administration. Biden, a longtime senator who will have Democratic control of both houses, is positioned to use the weight of his office to push an ambitious legislative agenda.
His team will be tested, though, by the tumult at home: a virus that is killing more than 4,000 people a day, a sluggish vaccination distribution program, a worsening economy and contention over the upcoming second impeachment trial for Trump.
Biden also has as much work ahead repairing the image of the presidency overseas as he does on American shores.
Trump repositioned the United States in the world, pulling the U.S. out of a number of multilateral trade deals and climate agreements in favor of a more insular foreign policy. His ever-shifting beliefs and moods strained relations with some of the nation’s oldest allies, including much of Western Europe.
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, Trump fostered competition, not cooperation, on research and vaccine development. Trump also abandoned the tradition role the president plays in shining a light on human rights abuses around the world.
Biden, who spent years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and had a vast foreign policy portfolio as vice president, has pledged a course correction. He has promised to repair alliances, rejoin the Paris climate treaty and the World Health Organization and said he would shore up U.S. national security by first addressing health, economic and political crises at home.
Offering the White House as a symbol of stability to global capitals won’t be easy for Biden as Trump’s shadow looms.
“He has a structural problem and needs to make the U.S. seem more reliable. We’re diminished in stature and less predictable,” said Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He noted that even after Biden’s win, the European Union bolstered ties to China with a new investment treaty.
“Everyone around the world is hedging, they have no idea if Biden’s a one-term president or what could come after him,” Haass said. “There is a fear across the world that Trump or Trumpism could return in four years.”
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Biden Should Tell Pelosi to Drop the Trump Impeachment Trial | RealClearPolitics
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President Biden said he wanted to end this uncivil war. Telling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to send the article of impeachment to the Senate would be a way to start. It was clear by Wednesday …
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Biden Needs to Move Fast and Fix Stuff | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Needs to Move Fast and Fix Stuff
Or his ability to help Americans will be doomed from the start.
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2020: The Point of No Return for Establishment Media | RealClearPolitics
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After 2020, it will be hard to see corporate media as anything but a public relations arm of the Democratic Party following the former’s attempts to bury not one, not two, but three major allegations leveled against left-wing politicians.
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The World Wants U.S. to Get Serious on Climate | RealClearPolitics
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The World Wants U.S. to Get Serious on Climate
Trump slowed, but did not stop, America's grappling with the climate crisis. Under Biden, can the nation catch up with the rest of the developed world?
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WASHINGTON (AP) Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Armys elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Army’s elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won Senate confirmation Friday to become the nation’s first Black secretary of defense.
The 93-2 vote gave President Joe Biden his second Cabinet member; Avril Haines was confirmed on Wednesday as the first woman to serve as director of national intelligence. Biden is expected to win approval for others on his national security team in coming days, including Antony Blinken as secretary of state.
Biden is looking for Austin to restore stability atop the Pentagon, which went through two Senate-confirmed secretaries of defense and four who held the post on an interim basis during the Trump administration. The only senators who voted against Austin were Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Josh Hawley of Missouri.
Before heading to the Pentagon, Austin wrote on Twitter that he is especially proud to be the first Black secretary of defense. “Let’s get to work,” he wrote.
And a short time later he arrived at the Pentagon’s River Entrance, where he was greeted by holdover Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist, who has been the acting secretary since Wednesday, and Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He was sworn in and was to receive an intelligence briefing, then confer with senior civilian and military officials on the COVID-19 crisis. He also planned to speak by phone with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and to receive briefings about China and the Middle East.
Some of the global problems on Austin’s plate are familiar to him, including one of the thorniest — Afghanistan. The White House said Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told his Afghan counterpart in a phone call Friday that the new administration will “review” the February 2020 deal that the Trump administration struck with the Taliban that requires the U.S. to withdraw all of its troops by May.
Trump ordered U.S. troops levels in Afghanistan cut to 2,500 just days before he left office, presenting Biden with decisions about how to retain leverage against the Taliban in support of peace talks.
Austin’s confirmation was complicated by his status as a recently retired general. He required a waiver of a legal prohibition on a military officer serving as secretary of defense within seven years of retirement. Austin retired in 2016 after serving as the first Black general to head U.S. Central Command. He was the first Black vice chief of staff of the Army in 2012 and also served as director of the Joint Staff, a behind-the-scenes job that gave him an intimate view of the Pentagon’s inner workings.
The House and the Senate approved the waiver Thursday, clearing the way for the Senate confirmation vote.
Austin, a large man with a booming voice and a tendency to shy from publicity, describes himself as the son of a postal worker and a homemaker from Thomasville, Georgia. He has promised to speak his mind to Congress and to Biden.
At his confirmation hearing Tuesday, Austin said he had not sought the nomination but was ready to lead the Pentagon without clinging to his military status and with full awareness that being a political appointee and Cabinet member requires “a different perspective and unique duties from a career in uniform.”
As vice president, Biden worked closely with Austin in 2010-11 to wind down U.S. military involvement in Iraq while Austin was the top U.S. commander in Baghdad. American forces withdrew entirely, only to return in 2014 after the Islamic State extremist group captured large swaths of Iraqi territory. At Central Command, Austin was a key architect of the strategy to defeat IS in Iraq and Syria.
Biden said in December when he announced Austin as his nominee that he considered him “the person we need at this moment,” and that he trusts Austin to ensure civilian control of the military. Critics of the nomination have questioned the wisdom of making an exception to the law against a recently retired military officer serving as defense secretary, noting that the prohibition was put in place to guard against undue military influence in national security matters.
Only twice before has Congress waived the prohibition — in 1950 for George C. Marshall during the Korean War and in 2017 for Jim Mattis, the retired Marine general who served as President Donald Trump’s first Pentagon chief.
Austin has promised to surround himself with qualified civilians. And he made clear at his confirmation hearing that he embraces Biden’s early focus on combatting the coronavirus pandemic.
“I will quickly review the department’s contributions to coronavirus relief efforts, ensuring we are doing everything we can — and then some — to help distribute vaccines across the country and to vaccinate our troops and preserve readiness,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Under questioning by senators, Austin pledged to address white supremacy and violent extremism in the ranks of the military.
“The Defense Department’s job is to keep America safe from our enemies,” he said. “But we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.”
Austin said he will insist that the leaders of every military service know that extremist behavior in their ranks is unacceptable.
He offered glimpses of other policy priorities, indicating that he embraces the view among many in Congress that China is the “pacing challenge,” or the leading national security problem for the U.S.
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The only senators who voted against Austin were Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Josh Hawley of Missouri.\nBefore heading to the Pentagon, Austin wrote on Twitter that he is especially proud to be the first Black secretary of defense. “Let’s get to work,” he wrote.\nAnd a short time later he arrived at the Pentagon’s River Entrance, where he was greeted by holdover Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist, who has been the acting secretary since Wednesday, and Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\nHe was sworn in and was to receive an intelligence briefing, then confer with senior civilian and military officials on the COVID-19 crisis. He also planned to speak by phone with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and to receive briefings about China and the Middle East.\nSome of the global problems on Austin’s plate are familiar to him, including one of the thorniest — Afghanistan. The White House said Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told his Afghan counterpart in a phone call Friday that the new administration will “review” the February 2020 deal that the Trump administration struck with the Taliban that requires the U.S. to withdraw all of its troops by May.\nTrump ordered U.S. troops levels in Afghanistan cut to 2,500 just days before he left office, presenting Biden with decisions about how to retain leverage against the Taliban in support of peace talks.\nAustin’s confirmation was complicated by his status as a recently retired general. He required a waiver of a legal prohibition on a military officer serving as secretary of defense within seven years of retirement. Austin retired in 2016 after serving as the first Black general to head U.S. Central Command. He was the first Black vice chief of staff of the Army in 2012 and also served as director of the Joint Staff, a behind-the-scenes job that gave him an intimate view of the Pentagon’s inner workings.\nThe House and the Senate approved the waiver Thursday, clearing the way for the Senate confirmation vote.\nAustin, a large man with a booming voice and a tendency to shy from publicity, describes himself as the son of a postal worker and a homemaker from Thomasville, Georgia. He has promised to speak his mind to Congress and to Biden.\nAt his confirmation hearing Tuesday, Austin said he had not sought the nomination but was ready to lead the Pentagon without clinging to his military status and with full awareness that being a political appointee and Cabinet member requires “a different perspective and unique duties from a career in uniform.”\nAs vice president, Biden worked closely with Austin in 2010-11 to wind down U.S. military involvement in Iraq while Austin was the top U.S. commander in Baghdad. American forces withdrew entirely, only to return in 2014 after the Islamic State extremist group captured large swaths of Iraqi territory. At Central Command, Austin was a key architect of the strategy to defeat IS in Iraq and Syria.\nBiden said in December when he announced Austin as his nominee that he considered him “the person we need at this moment,” and that he trusts Austin to ensure civilian control of the military. Critics of the nomination have questioned the wisdom of making an exception to the law against a recently retired military officer serving as defense secretary, noting that the prohibition was put in place to guard against undue military influence in national security matters.\nOnly twice before has Congress waived the prohibition — in 1950 for George C. Marshall during the Korean War and in 2017 for Jim Mattis, the retired Marine general who served as President Donald Trump’s first Pentagon chief.\nAustin has promised to surround himself with qualified civilians. And he made clear at his confirmation hearing that he embraces Biden’s early focus on combatting the coronavirus pandemic.\n“I will quickly review the department’s contributions to coronavirus relief efforts, ensuring we are doing everything we can — and then some — to help distribute vaccines across the country and to vaccinate our troops and preserve readiness,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.\nUnder questioning by senators, Austin pledged to address white supremacy and violent extremism in the ranks of the military.\n“The Defense Department’s job is to keep America safe from our enemies,” he said. “But we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.”\nAustin said he will insist that the leaders of every military service know that extremist behavior in their ranks is unacceptable.\nHe offered glimpses of other policy priorities, indicating that he embraces the view among many in Congress that China is the “pacing challenge,” or the leading national security problem for the U.S.",
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Biden Must Scrap Trump's Hawkish Approach to China | RealClearPolitics
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China must change when it comes to health policy and transparency. But the reality is we need its cooperation to keep the world safer in the future.
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Excuses for Summer Riots All the More Disgraceful Now | RealClearPolitics
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Excuses for Summer Riots All the More Disgraceful Now
Wednesday's mob assault on Capitol Hill was shocking and brazen: Hundreds of MAGA-hat-wearing rioters broke into the seat of American democracy. They stormed the halls, looting property and assault…
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"Excuses for Summer Riots All the More Disgraceful Now",
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Fences: The Perfect Symbol of the Trump Years | RealClearPolitics
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David Gergen writes that the new, 7-feet-tall fence now surrounding the Capitol should eventually find a home in the Smithsonian. Pieces of it would be an appropriate remembrance of just how dangerous and frightening the Trump years have been.
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"David Gergen writes that the new, 7-feet-tall fence now surrounding the Capitol should eventually find a home in the Smithsonian. Pieces of it would be an appropriate remembrance of just how dangerous and frightening the Trump years have been.",
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Why the Dems' Rule in Washington May Be Short Lived | RealClearPolitics
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Will Democrats Turn the United States Into California? | RealClearPolitics
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Will Democrats Turn the United States Into California?
This is what Democratic leaders have already stated as their plans.
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Trump's Operation Warp Speed Was a Historic Success | RealClearPolitics
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The Trump administration program to develop and distribute safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics is a success unparalleled in the history of public health.
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The Worst Run Cities in America | RealClearPolitics
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The current state of many of America’s large cities is poor and rapidly declining, leading to the greatest rates of emigration since the bad old days in the 1970s of bankruptcy, runaway crime, and disorder. Eight cities stand out as the worst-run in the nation, when ranked on critical quality-of-life markers including cost of living, education, crime, and homelessness: New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, and Oakland. Despite funneling billions into city government annually, each faces a multi-generational challenge brought on by long standing mismanagement.
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"The current state of many of America’s large cities is poor and rapidly declining, leading to the greatest rates of emigration since the bad old days in the 1970s of bankruptcy, runaway crime, and disorder. Eight cities stand out as the worst-run in the nation, when ranked on critical quality-of-life markers including cost of living, education, crime, and homelessness: New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, and Oakland. Despite funneling billions into city government annually, each faces a multi-generational challenge brought on by long standing mismanagement.",
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A Requiem for the Twitter Presidency | RealClearPolitics
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A Requiem for the Twitter Presidency
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How Trump blurred the lines between politics and persona in ways that will reverberate for years.
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FNC's Tucker Carlson comments on the events of Wednesday's riot on Capitol Hill:
TUCKER CARLSON: Within minutes of Trump supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday, virtually every powerful person in the country erupted in rage at the president.
Business leaders demanded that Trump be removed from office immediately under the 25th Amendment. Members of Congress clamored to impeach him, and at least one Democrat suggested that anyone in Congress who supported his claims of election fraud must be expelled. Meanwhile, the media set about denouncing Trump as a terrorist and a murderer, etc.
Notice a theme? The reaction was all about Donald Trump. The people in charge of every institution in American life spend all day talking about Donald Trump. You may not have noticed, because that's not very different from any other day over the past five-and-a-half years since he announced his candidacy.
It has been all about Donald Trump all of the time. And the effect on us has been noticeable. We've gone from being this big, sprawling country with an enormous span of concerns and interests to a kind of sweaty, airless chat room of 330 million people, all of whom are simultaneously focused with monomaniacal intensity on a single man. That is not healthy, no matter how you feel about Trump.
Is any president worth all of this time and attention? All politicians come with a shelf life. In Trump's case, the expiration date arrives in 13 days.
Just for a moment, let's think about what life will be like next month. Two weeks from Thursday, Donald Trump will no longer be in control of our nuclear arsenal. He will not have command of federal agencies or even, most likely, his own Twitter account.
The rest of us, and this is key, will still be here. We've got nowhere to go. So what is life going to be like for us on Jan. 20? Not many people seem to be thinking about that, up to and including the people we pay to think about it. Donald Trump thinks almost exclusively about Donald Trump, but so does almost every single Democrat and Republican in the Congress. Who's got your concerns top of mind? Who wakes up in the middle of the night worried about your family? As far as we can tell, no one.
That's the main thing we need to change. It won't be easy, but the themes are pretty clear. Here are the basics: The point of the Republican Party is not to protect the personal reputations of its leaders, but its voters. In practice, that means protecting the Bill of Rights, the bedrock promises of American life. Without them, you wouldn't want to live here. Those freedoms are incalculably more important than any single politician.
Donald Trump could become immortal and win the next 40 presidential elections and his daughter the next 40 after that. But if America becomes a place where you have to violate your own conscience in order to hold a job, you're not allowed to protect your family from mob violence and your children can't afford to get married and raise your grandchildren because employers don't like their skin color, then what's the point of all of it? There is none. No one wants to live in a place like that or should have to, no matter who the president is.
We should be very concerned about all of this right now. Wednesday's riot is already being used as a pretext for an unprecedented crackdown on civil liberties. Just in the last several hours, we have heard people in positions of power demand that those who support Donald Trump should no longer be allowed to publish books or use the Internet or fly on airplanes. Driving cars, holding jobs and staying in hotels will certainly be next and we're barely exaggerating.
To justify these mind-bending, terrifyingly un-American demands, they are, as usual, relying on lies and hysteria. What happened Wednesday wasn't simply a political protest getting out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it (Which is, you know, what actually happened). Instead, they're calling it domestic terrorism and, needless to say, White supremacy.
Why are they doing that? Simple. They know that if they keep saying it, history will record it as true. They understand the power of language, and that's why they try to control it. They know that words have consequences. This is scary, and the party that should be stepping in to stop it, to push back, to tell the truth in the face of lies and to protect its voters from this deception and the destruction that inevitably comes next, does nothing. Often, in fact, they join in.
With bodyguards like this, tens of millions of Americans have no chance. They're about to be crushed by the ascendant left, the people who say, "Well, I don't think they should be allowed to fly on airplanes."
Why is no one defending them? The main problem, and this really is the main problem on the right, is that the people who run the Republican Party don't really like their own voters. They especially don't want the voters that Trump brought. Trump brought a noticeably downscale element to the party's ranks, and this horrifies them.
Many Republicans in Washington now despise the people they're supposed to represent and protect. In fact, it's not just Republican leaders who feel this way, but our entire leadership class. You rarely hear it spoken out loud, but it's the truth.
A very specific form of internal loathing is at the core of the reaction to Donald Trump. Nothing is more repulsive to socially anxious White professionals than working class people who look like them. The proles are their single greatest fear. They remind them of where they may have come from or where they could be going if things turn south.
So if you want to understand the hatred -- not just disagreement, but gut-level loathing and fear of Trump in, say, New York or Washington or Los Angeles -- you've got to understand that first. It's not really Trump, it's his voters. The new money class despises them.
Trump didn't despise them, and that really was his secret. In the end, Donald Trump did not judge his own voters. Trump ate McDonald's and his voters were very grateful for it. You'd be grateful for it, too, if everyone else hated you.
Thirteen days from now, tens of millions of these voters will not have Donald Trump to protect them. They won't have anyone. And unless the Republican Party decides to wake up and push back against the lies and acknowledge the purpose of those lies, which is an unprecedented crackdown on the way you live, you have no chance, either.
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"FNC's Tucker Carlson comments on the events of Wednesday's riot on Capitol Hill:\r\n\r\nTUCKER CARLSON: Within minutes of Trump supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday, virtually every powerful person in the country erupted in rage at the president.\r\n\r\nBusiness leaders demanded that Trump be removed from office immediately under the 25th Amendment. Members of Congress clamored to impeach him, and at least one Democrat suggested that anyone in Congress who supported his claims of election fraud must be expelled. Meanwhile, the media set about denouncing Trump as a terrorist and a murderer, etc.\r\n\r\nNotice a theme? The reaction was all about Donald Trump. The people in charge of every institution in American life spend all day talking about Donald Trump. You may not have noticed, because that's not very different from any other day over the past five-and-a-half years since he announced his candidacy.\r\n\r\nIt has been all about Donald Trump all of the time. And the effect on us has been noticeable. We've gone from being this big, sprawling country with an enormous span of concerns and interests to a kind of sweaty, airless chat room of 330 million people, all of whom are simultaneously focused with monomaniacal intensity on a single man. That is not healthy, no matter how you feel about Trump.\r\n\r\nIs any president worth all of this time and attention? All politicians come with a shelf life. In Trump's case, the expiration date arrives in 13 days.\r\n\r\nJust for a moment, let's think about what life will be like next month. Two weeks from Thursday, Donald Trump will no longer be in control of our nuclear arsenal. He will not have command of federal agencies or even, most likely, his own Twitter account. \r\n\r\nThe rest of us, and this is key, will still be here. We've got nowhere to go. So what is life going to be like for us on Jan. 20? Not many people seem to be thinking about that, up to and including the people we pay to think about it. Donald Trump thinks almost exclusively about Donald Trump, but so does almost every single Democrat and Republican in the Congress. Who's got your concerns top of mind? Who wakes up in the middle of the night worried about your family? As far as we can tell, no one.\r\n\r\nThat's the main thing we need to change. It won't be easy, but the themes are pretty clear. Here are the basics: The point of the Republican Party is not to protect the personal reputations of its leaders, but its voters. In practice, that means protecting the Bill of Rights, the bedrock promises of American life. Without them, you wouldn't want to live here. Those freedoms are incalculably more important than any single politician.\r\n\r\nDonald Trump could become immortal and win the next 40 presidential elections and his daughter the next 40 after that. But if America becomes a place where you have to violate your own conscience in order to hold a job, you're not allowed to protect your family from mob violence and your children can't afford to get married and raise your grandchildren because employers don't like their skin color, then what's the point of all of it? There is none. No one wants to live in a place like that or should have to, no matter who the president is.\r\n\r\nWe should be very concerned about all of this right now. Wednesday's riot is already being used as a pretext for an unprecedented crackdown on civil liberties. Just in the last several hours, we have heard people in positions of power demand that those who support Donald Trump should no longer be allowed to publish books or use the Internet or fly on airplanes. Driving cars, holding jobs and staying in hotels will certainly be next and we're barely exaggerating.\r\n\r\nTo justify these mind-bending, terrifyingly un-American demands, they are, as usual, relying on lies and hysteria. What happened Wednesday wasn't simply a political protest getting out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it (Which is, you know, what actually happened). Instead, they're calling it domestic terrorism and, needless to say, White supremacy. \r\n\r\nWhy are they doing that? Simple. They know that if they keep saying it, history will record it as true. They understand the power of language, and that's why they try to control it. They know that words have consequences. This is scary, and the party that should be stepping in to stop it, to push back, to tell the truth in the face of lies and to protect its voters from this deception and the destruction that inevitably comes next, does nothing. Often, in fact, they join in.\r\n\r\nWith bodyguards like this, tens of millions of Americans have no chance. They're about to be crushed by the ascendant left, the people who say, \"Well, I don't think they should be allowed to fly on airplanes.\"\r\n\r\nWhy is no one defending them? The main problem, and this really is the main problem on the right, is that the people who run the Republican Party don't really like their own voters. They especially don't want the voters that Trump brought. Trump brought a noticeably downscale element to the party's ranks, and this horrifies them.\r\n\r\nMany Republicans in Washington now despise the people they're supposed to represent and protect. In fact, it's not just Republican leaders who feel this way, but our entire leadership class. You rarely hear it spoken out loud, but it's the truth.\r\n\r\nA very specific form of internal loathing is at the core of the reaction to Donald Trump. Nothing is more repulsive to socially anxious White professionals than working class people who look like them. The proles are their single greatest fear. They remind them of where they may have come from or where they could be going if things turn south.\r\n\r\nSo if you want to understand the hatred -- not just disagreement, but gut-level loathing and fear of Trump in, say, New York or Washington or Los Angeles -- you've got to understand that first. It's not really Trump, it's his voters. The new money class despises them.\r\n\r\nTrump didn't despise them, and that really was his secret. In the end, Donald Trump did not judge his own voters. Trump ate McDonald's and his voters were very grateful for it. You'd be grateful for it, too, if everyone else hated you.\r\n\r\nThirteen days from now, tens of millions of these voters will not have Donald Trump to protect them. They won't have anyone. And unless the Republican Party decides to wake up and push back against the lies and acknowledge the purpose of those lies, which is an unprecedented crackdown on the way you live, you have no chance, either."
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While President Trumps departure from the White House dominates the news cycle, his wifes transition is flying under the radar. She wouldnt have it...
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In Praise of Melania Trump's Humble Leadership
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While President Trump’s departure from the White House dominates the news cycle, his wife’s transition is flying under the radar. She wouldn’t have it any other way.
After four years of calm, quiet leadership, the departure of first lady Melania Trump is emblematic of her unwavering humility and the modesty that is all too difficult to find in today’s Washington, D.C. Unlike her husband, Melania was never boastful or boisterous. She was never flashy. She was always classy and kind. Melania readily ceded the spotlight to the president and his “America First” agenda, while still finding ways to inspire people who look up to her — Democrats and Republicans.
When Americans were worried about voting in-person during a pandemic, Melania showed the way, casting her ballot personally in Florida. The first lady routinely pushed back against her husband’s critics, putting out her own statements even when it was uncomfortable to do so. Through the ups and downs, Melania remained committed to charity, hosting numerous events at children’s hospitals and cheering on America’s public servants, including the military and first responders. She forged her own path, whether that meant making surprise visits to U.S. troops in Iraq or delivering lunch to firefighters and their families.
Perhaps most importantly, the first lady was never desperate for media recognition. Whereas Democrats like Dr. Jill Biden can expect puff pieces and flattering magazine spreads, Melania did much of her work behind the scenes. Faced with an adversarial press, she dedicated herself to simply doing the right thing, rather than promoting it.
This is a woman who launched an anti-bullying campaign, only to be ridiculed for it. This is a woman who traveled thousands of miles to serve as the overshadowed, oft-forgotten role model for girls around the world — from the United States to Ghana and India. Melania’s empowerment of women was most notable in the White House, where she entrusted numerous female staffers with the tallest of tasks.
Did the liberal media acknowledge her brand of female empowerment? Of course not. Our “journalists” opted to attack the first lady instead. But she carried on.
The legacy of Melania Trump is perfectly encapsulated in a recent letter of hers, showing Americans the “path forward” and imploring people to “stop the violence” of recent weeks. In her words: “It has been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your First Lady. I want to thank the millions of Americans who supported my husband and me over the past four years and shown the incredible impact of the American spirit. I am grateful to you all for letting me serve you on platforms which are dear to me.”
And we are grateful to you. Since 2016, the first lady has not only preached civility, she has practiced it. Her way is the path forward. It is the blueprint for all Americans, including the incoming Biden-Harris administration.
Melania couldn’t have left Jill Biden with larger shoes to fill — in words and in action. Walking in them will be no easy feat.
Our only hope is that the Bidens shepherd us through turbulent times with the goodness and grace of Melania Trump. The first lady may sadly be overlooked, but she will never be forgotten.
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Will Biden Take On Our Alarming China Problem? | RealClearPolitics
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Will Biden Take On Our Alarming China Problem?
America has a China problem. And so do the Democrats and President-elect Joe Biden. While everyone worried about the Kremlin the past several years, Beijing ran wild.
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The Echo Chamber Era | RealClearPolitics
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The Echo Chamber Era
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Trust in media is down, but if journalists don't listen to critics anyway, why should they care?
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Good morning, its Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Today marks the feast of the Epiphany on the Christian calendar. The date is celebrated as Three Kings Day in...
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Pence's Moment; the Dream Is Alive; Georgia Democrats
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Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Today marks the feast of the Epiphany on the Christian calendar. The date is celebrated as Three Kings Day in Spain and much of Latin America, including the great state of Puerto Rico. Perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself there, but political change is afoot in this country: In news I’m sure you already know, Georgia voters elected the Rev. Raphael Warnock as the first black senator in the state’s history yesterday. The other Senate race is closer, but it seems to have gone by a razor-thin margin to Jon Ossoff.
Ossoff’s lead as I write these words is some 16,000 votes. That total may increase, but even if it rises to 20,000 or so, that’s a very slight margin in an election in which 3.4 million people cast ballots. Only 33 years old and with a decidedly underwhelming resume, Ossoff managed a neat trick: He was a career politician who could never get himself elected to anything. He’s apparently done so this time, however, and it’s a victory that will make a Senate majority leader out of Chuck Schumer.
Credit, and blame, were being apportioned last night even as the votes were being counted.
“Flipping Georgia was unthinkable a few years ago,” tweeted Democratic donor and 2020 presidential candidate also-ran Tom Steyer. “Yet here we are, in a historic moment. Credit must go to the Black women who brought us here.” Steyer then thanked them by name: Stacey Abrams, the former legislator and gubernatorial candidate who led the Democrats’ impressive voter registration drive; Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms; Black Lives Matter organizer Latosha Brown; grassroots activist Nse Ufot -- “and countless others who worked tirelessly and kept the faith.”
On the other side, there were recriminations, mostly directed at a certain lame-duck president who has opted during the past two months not to go gently into that good night. Donald Trump not only refused to accept his own defeat, he picked fights with Georgia election officials (including its Republican governor), blind-sided the Senate leadership with an eleventh-hour demand for $2,000 relief checks, and continually told his supporters that U.S. elections were “rigged.” When he did campaign in Georgia, Trump talked mainly about himself instead of Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
“Why did GOP lose [Georgia Senate races]?” tweeted Texas Republican Matt Mackowiak. “Trump’s ridiculous bullshit for six weeks. He depressed GOP turnout.”
“No, Republicans, the Democrats did not steal the races in Georgia,” added popular conservative commentator Erick Erickson. “You talked yourself out of voting. That’s not theft. Turns out many of you are as stupid as they said.”
With that, I’ll point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. Today’s lineup includes RCP alums James Arkin and Andrew Desiderio (Politico); Tom Friedman (New York Times); Jill Filipovic (CNN); and Jenni White (The Federalist). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:
* * *
Pence’s Time for Choosing. Phil Wegmann explores the vice president’s predicament as he presides today over Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote, which is being challenged by his boss.
Smile -- the American Dream Is Alive and Well. At RealClearPolicy, Daniel Di Martino spotlights the findings of a new survey from the Walton Family Foundation.
When Education Reform Is a Fiscal Windfall. Also at RCPolicy, Lewis M. Andrews cites the benefits to financially troubled states of education savings accounts.
Russia’s Mobile ICBM Cheating Program. At RealClearDefense, Mark B. Schneider raises alarms about the basing strategy revealed this fall.
Supreme Court Hearing Should End Baseless Climate Lawsuits. At RealClearEnergy, Guy Caruso argues that a legal strategy employed by municipalities is aimed only at winning damages rather than curtailing carbon emissions.
A Professor’s Advice to Conservative Christian Students. At RealClearReligion, Kathleen Bustamante has this survival guide for those hesitant to express their views in an often-hostile environment.
* * *
Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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Who Does the Twitter CEO Think He Is, a College President? | RealClearPolitics
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Who Does the Twitter CEO Think He Is, a College President?
What Jack Dorsey has given us is the clear signal that the days of indulging public disagreement on who should rule are over
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From Cool to Cringe: What's Happened to American Culture? | RealClearPolitics
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From Cool to Cringe: What's Happened to American Culture?
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From Cool to Cringe: What's Happened to American Culture?
America had exported Cool to the world. Now it exported its cringey hallucinations, its racial paranoias, its porn and DJ Khaled
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How to Calm America's Hundred-Year Storm | RealClearPolitics
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How to Calm America's Hundred-Year Storm
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Peel back our political anger, and you'll find social disruptions on a scale the country hasn't seen since the early 1900s. So what does Teddy Roosevelt's era tell us about how to fix our divisions?
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| 2021-01-26T00:00:00 |
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Warnock's Bend-the-Arc Faith Just What the Senate Needs | RealClearPolitics
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Warnock's Bend-the-Arc Faith Just What the Senate Needs
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Warnock's Bend-the-Arc Faith Just What the Senate Needs
A historic Senate runoff victory in Georgia has given America a measure of progress that should be cherished and built upon.
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Excuses for Summer Riots All the More Disgraceful Now | RealClearPolitics
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Excuses for Summer Riots All the More Disgraceful Now
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Excuses for Summer Riots All the More Disgraceful Now
Wednesday's mob assault on Capitol Hill was shocking and brazen: Hundreds of MAGA-hat-wearing rioters broke into the seat of American democracy.
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Ignore McConnell and Nuke the Filibuster | RealClearPolitics
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Can Biden Harness American Optimism? | RealClearPolitics
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Don't Pardon Capitol Attackers as Dem Presidents Did | RealClearPolitics
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As President Trump denounced the violence in he Capitol and called for peace and order, Joe Biden had a different idea: Attacking President Trump. And pinning the racism tag on the cops.In a posturing speech attempting to look enraged a...
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Congressional Democrats’ rush toward impeachment has put Joe Biden in a difficult position before he’s even taken the oath of office. Does he follow the desires of his fellow Democratic Party leaders to punish Donald Trump for stirring up an angry mob that ran amok at the U.S. Capitol? Or does Biden heed his own oft-repeated campaign promise to weigh the desires of those Americans who voted against him as well as the historic numbers who voted for him?
The nation is struggling to pick up the pieces and come to terms with last week’s insurrection at the Capitol building by Trump-supporting extremists. At least five people, including one police officer, died. Hundreds more were threatened and terrorized. Another Capitol Police officer on duty that day died by suicide over the weekend, his family announced Monday.
Democrats are putting the blame squarely on President Trump’s shoulders – but not only Democrats. White House and administration staffers have resigned in droves, including three members of Trump’s Cabinet. Many prominent Republicans -- including several onetime supporters -- have denounced Trump for instigating the Capitol attack. But the rank-and-file are not yet convinced. A new Frank Luntz poll released Monday found that only 25% of Trump voters agree he is mostly responsible for the assault on the Capitol, while 62% said he was only “somewhat” or “only a little” to blame.
So, the question for the incoming president is pretty basic: In such a hyper-partisan political environment, is compromise even possible?
After the cataclysmic events of Jan. 6, lawmakers and pundits have frequently invoked the words of Ben Franklin -- that the Founding Fathers rejected a monarchy in favor of “a republic, if you can keep it” -- along with President Lincoln’s prophetic declaration that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Two months after winning the presidency, Biden’s post-election words intended to lower the temperature in Washington and across the country already seem dated as he declines to clearly state whether he backs his party’s pursuit of the 25th Amendment or a second impeachment.
“Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now,” Biden said Nov. 7 in his first speech after he was declared the victor. “This is the time to heal.”
But Biden didn’t count on a horrific attack on the Capitol, nor on Trump’s steadfast refusal to acknowledge his defeat, which are testing that commitment to unity as he is being pressed by other party leaders bent on revenge. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and new Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are rejecting calls from a bipartisan group of House members to stop the drive to impeach Trump on his way out the door. They want to put all Republicans on record as to whether they will protect Trump from being removed from office even though he will be out anyway in eight days.
With roughly a week left before Biden is inaugurated, House Democrats are set to impeach Trump for a second time this week. The only question is whether they will send the impeachment articles over to the Senate right away or wait for Biden to complete his first 100 days and have most, if not all, of his Cabinet confirmed.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has suggested Democrats wait for that period to allow Biden to assemble his administration and begin work on his agenda, while House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has said he wants to send the articles to the Senate immediately.
“Doing nothing is not an option,” a veteran Democratic operative told RealClearPolitics. Pelosi has admitted that her interest in impeachment is to prevent Trump from running again in 2024 — so the impeachment push has become a way for Democrats to permanently cancel Trump and any chance for a political resurgence.
Plenty of voices, so far going unheeded, are pressing for a less polarizing beginning to Biden’s presidency. Members of the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus, along with a several centrist senators, are pushing for a congressional censure of Trump instead, arguing that a last-ditch impeachment effort will backfire on Biden and Democrats by inciting more violence while turning Trump into a martyr. Rep. Tom Reed, a New York Republican, has circulated a letter imploring Biden to reject what he’s calling “snap” impeachment, which would go to a vote without the deliberations of a traditional hearing.
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley has argued that such a step would only “inflame political divisions in our country,” and he urged that Trump’s future should be left to “history and the voters to decide -- not canceled by congressional fiat.” Turley, who also argued against the first impeachment, denounced Trump’s Jan. 6 speech to his supporters as “reckless and wrong” even before they stormed the capitol. He also praised Vice President Mike Pence for defying Trump in rejecting his claim that electoral votes could be “sent back” to the states.
“Yet, none of this is license for Congress to rampage through the Constitution with the same abandon as last week’s rioters did in the Capitol,” Turley wrote Monday.
Nonetheless, Pelosi is moving forward with a demand that Pence invoke the 25th Amendment to declare Trump unfit and remove him from office. Such a move would require Pence to convene the Cabinet, a majority of whose members would then need to declare Trump unable to perform as president. With the three Cabinet members already gone, it seems a futile ultimatum, especially after Pence and Trump met Monday and agreed to work together for the final week of the presidency.
Pence’s rejection of this Democratic demand means House Democrats will move forward with a vote on a single article of impeachment as soon as Wednesday.
As his presidency is set to begin, Biden seems torn by these developments. He could try to change the tone in Washington by leaning on his party’s leaders to forgo another divisive impeachment fight against Trump. But so far he hasn’t. On Monday, he signaled a willingness to entertain a “bifurcated” first 100 days, sharing progress on his initiatives with a Senate impeachment trial.
“Can we go half day on dealing with impeachment and half day getting my people nominated and confirmed?” he pondered Monday when pressed on the matter after receiving his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine. “I haven’t gotten an answer from the parliamentarian yet,” he said.
Others quickly filled in the leadership vacuum to remind Biden that the Senate operated in the same dual-track way during the early 2020 unsuccessful impeachment trial.
Laurence Tribe, a fiery anti-Trump Harvard law professor, said the Senate, “if halfway responsible,” will hold a short impeachment trial as soon as possible. Tribe authored a book on the case for impeaching Trump along with Joshua Matz, who served as the counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s impeachment proceedings in late 2019.
“An impeachment trial needn’t get in the way of a forward-looking agenda for the Senate,” Tribe tweeted Monday night. “It’s increasingly looking like that’s the way forward: bifurcated days, half impeachment trial, half other business.”
So much for unity and turning the page on Donald J. Trump.
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White House and administration staffers have resigned in droves, including three members of Trump’s Cabinet. Many prominent Republicans -- including several onetime supporters -- have denounced Trump for instigating the Capitol attack. But the rank-and-file are not yet convinced. A new Frank Luntz poll released Monday found that only 25% of Trump voters agree he is mostly responsible for the assault on the Capitol, while 62% said he was only “somewhat” or “only a little” to blame.\nSo, the question for the incoming president is pretty basic: In such a hyper-partisan political environment, is compromise even possible?\nAfter the cataclysmic events of Jan. 6, lawmakers and pundits have frequently invoked the words of Ben Franklin -- that the Founding Fathers rejected a monarchy in favor of “a republic, if you can keep it” -- along with President Lincoln’s prophetic declaration that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”\nTwo months after winning the presidency, Biden’s post-election words intended to lower the temperature in Washington and across the country already seem dated as he declines to clearly state whether he backs his party’s pursuit of the 25th Amendment or a second impeachment.\n“Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now,” Biden said Nov. 7 in his first speech after he was declared the victor. “This is the time to heal.”\nBut Biden didn’t count on a horrific attack on the Capitol, nor on Trump’s steadfast refusal to acknowledge his defeat, which are testing that commitment to unity as he is being pressed by other party leaders bent on revenge. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and new Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are rejecting calls from a bipartisan group of House members to stop the drive to impeach Trump on his way out the door. They want to put all Republicans on record as to whether they will protect Trump from being removed from office even though he will be out anyway in eight days.\nWith roughly a week left before Biden is inaugurated, House Democrats are set to impeach Trump for a second time this week. The only question is whether they will send the impeachment articles over to the Senate right away or wait for Biden to complete his first 100 days and have most, if not all, of his Cabinet confirmed.\nHouse Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has suggested Democrats wait for that period to allow Biden to assemble his administration and begin work on his agenda, while House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has said he wants to send the articles to the Senate immediately.\n“Doing nothing is not an option,” a veteran Democratic operative told RealClearPolitics. Pelosi has admitted that her interest in impeachment is to prevent Trump from running again in 2024 — so the impeachment push has become a way for Democrats to permanently cancel Trump and any chance for a political resurgence.\nPlenty of voices, so far going unheeded, are pressing for a less polarizing beginning to Biden’s presidency. Members of the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus, along with a several centrist senators, are pushing for a congressional censure of Trump instead, arguing that a last-ditch impeachment effort will backfire on Biden and Democrats by inciting more violence while turning Trump into a martyr. Rep. Tom Reed, a New York Republican, has circulated a letter imploring Biden to reject what he’s calling “snap” impeachment, which would go to a vote without the deliberations of a traditional hearing.\nConstitutional scholar Jonathan Turley has argued that such a step would only “inflame political divisions in our country,” and he urged that Trump’s future should be left to “history and the voters to decide -- not canceled by congressional fiat.” Turley, who also argued against the first impeachment, denounced Trump’s Jan. 6 speech to his supporters as “reckless and wrong” even before they stormed the capitol. He also praised Vice President Mike Pence for defying Trump in rejecting his claim that electoral votes could be “sent back” to the states.\n“Yet, none of this is license for Congress to rampage through the Constitution with the same abandon as last week’s rioters did in the Capitol,” Turley wrote Monday.\nNonetheless, Pelosi is moving forward with a demand that Pence invoke the 25th Amendment to declare Trump unfit and remove him from office. Such a move would require Pence to convene the Cabinet, a majority of whose members would then need to declare Trump unable to perform as president. With the three Cabinet members already gone, it seems a futile ultimatum, especially after Pence and Trump met Monday and agreed to work together for the final week of the presidency.\nPence’s rejection of this Democratic demand means House Democrats will move forward with a vote on a single article of impeachment as soon as Wednesday.\nAs his presidency is set to begin, Biden seems torn by these developments. He could try to change the tone in Washington by leaning on his party’s leaders to forgo another divisive impeachment fight against Trump. But so far he hasn’t. On Monday, he signaled a willingness to entertain a “bifurcated” first 100 days, sharing progress on his initiatives with a Senate impeachment trial.\n“Can we go half day on dealing with impeachment and half day getting my people nominated and confirmed?” he pondered Monday when pressed on the matter after receiving his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine. “I haven’t gotten an answer from the parliamentarian yet,” he said.\nOthers quickly filled in the leadership vacuum to remind Biden that the Senate operated in the same dual-track way during the early 2020 unsuccessful impeachment trial.\nLaurence Tribe, a fiery anti-Trump Harvard law professor, said the Senate, “if halfway responsible,” will hold a short impeachment trial as soon as possible. Tribe authored a book on the case for impeaching Trump along with Joshua Matz, who served as the counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s impeachment proceedings in late 2019.\n“An impeachment trial needn’t get in the way of a forward-looking agenda for the Senate,” Tribe tweeted Monday night. “It’s increasingly looking like that’s the way forward: bifurcated days, half impeachment trial, half other business.”\nSo much for unity and turning the page on Donald J. Trump.",
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defended his position to object to the certification of the Electoral College results when Congress takes it up on January 6th. In an interview with FOX News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Monday, Hawley said objecting in the Senate is the only forum provided in the Constitution and he will be doing it on behalf of people who want to probe election irregularities.
MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: We are about 24 hours away from the polls closing here in the state of Georgia, and ballot-counting will officially begin.
But, on the other side of that, another political storm is brewing in Washington, as Republican lawmakers gear up to contest the Electoral College results. And that will happen during Wednesday's joint session, something that Vice President Pence hinted at today.
Watch this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And I promise you, come this Wednesday, we will have our day in Congress.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: One of the senators leading that charge, Josh Hawley, joins us now.
Senator, thanks for the time. Can you hear us, Senator?
SEN. JOSH HAWLEY (R-MO): Yes, I can.
BAIER: OK, gotcha.
MACCALLUM: OK.
BAIER: What is the ultimate goal here? You have talked about it a little bit differently than Senator Cruz has.
What -- are you trying to overturn the election as it stands now and to keep President Trump in the White House as of January 20?
HAWLEY: What I'm trying to do, Bret, is to raise the concerns that my constituents have all over Missouri.
I have heard from people like I have never heard before over the last month about this election. They have major, major concerns about the integrity, the fairness of this election. And they expect me to stand up and to raise those concerns.
And this is the only forum I have to do it. This is the forum that the Constitution and the statutes provide. And they also want action. They want an investigation into these irregularities. They want new election laws to make sure that our elections are secure going forward.
This is my chance to stand up and speak for them. And somebody has got to take their concerns seriously and speak up. And that's what I'm going to do.
MACCALLUM: So, does that mean that you do not expect that you will be able to change the outcome in this process at all?
HAWLEY: Well, Martha, I can only speak for myself and my own vote.
My colleagues in the Senate, you have seen various Senate Republicans say they won't support -- they either won't object to any states or they won't support any challenge, any debate to any of these electors.
So, their votes are their votes, and people have to reach their own conclusions. But I think it is absolutely imperative. When you look at something that happened -- or like what happened in Pennsylvania, for example, where you had a state that didn't even follow its own constitution and its own laws, you have got allegations of irregularities in that state and many others, it is vital that we be heard on this issue and we have a chance to debate it.
And that's why I'm going to object.
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MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: We are about 24 hours away from the polls closing here in the state of Georgia, and ballot-counting will officially begin.
But, on the other side of that, another political storm is brewing in Washington, as Republican lawmakers gear up to contest the Electoral College results. And that will happen during Wednesday's joint session, something that Vice President Pence hinted at today.
Watch this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And I promise you, come this Wednesday, we will have our day in Congress.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: One of the senators leading that charge, Josh Hawley, joins us now.
Senator, thanks for the time. Can you hear us, Senator?
SEN. JOSH HAWLEY (R-MO): Yes, I can.
BAIER: OK, gotcha.
MACCALLUM: OK.
BAIER: What is the ultimate goal here? You have talked about it a little bit differently than Senator Cruz has.
What -- are you trying to overturn the election as it stands now and to keep President Trump in the White House as of January 20?
HAWLEY: What I'm trying to do, Bret, is to raise the concerns that my constituents have all over Missouri.
I have heard from people like I have never heard before over the last month about this election. They have major, major concerns about the integrity, the fairness of this election. And they expect me to stand up and to raise those concerns.
And this is the only forum I have to do it. This is the forum that the Constitution and the statutes provide. And they also want action. They want an investigation into these irregularities. They want new election laws to make sure that our elections are secure going forward.
This is my chance to stand up and speak for them. And somebody has got to take their concerns seriously and speak up. And that's what I'm going to do.
MACCALLUM: So, does that mean that you do not expect that you will be able to change the outcome in this process at all?
HAWLEY: Well, Martha, I can only speak for myself and my own vote.
My colleagues in the Senate, you have seen various Senate Republicans say they won't support -- they either won't object to any states or they won't support any challenge, any debate to any of these electors.
So, their votes are their votes, and people have to reach their own conclusions. But I think it is absolutely imperative. When you look at something that happened -- or like what happened in Pennsylvania, for example, where you had a state that didn't even follow its own constitution and its own laws, you have got allegations of irregularities in that state and many others, it is vital that we be heard on this issue and we have a chance to debate it.
And that's why I'm going to object.
MACCALLUM: Can I just let say, that -- the Pennsylvania situation is so specific, and I think it gets a lot of traction with people when you take a look at it. It makes sense.
I think people are very surprised that the Supreme Court was not interested in it. Do you think that, if the White House or the campaign had focused on Pennsylvania alone, rather than a strategy to sort of throw everything at the wall and see what stuck in all these states, that they might have gotten further with this process?
HAWLEY: Well, Martha, they tried to go to court in Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign did.
MACCALLUM: Yes.
HAWLEY: And so did other Pennsylvania citizens. And they were thrown out. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw them out, improperly.
Here's the -- here's the gist of it. Pennsylvania politicians changed the law about mail-in balloting. The Pennsylvania constitution doesn't allow universal mail-in balloting. They went ahead and changed it anyway.
MACCALLUM: Right.
HAWLEY: Then the Trump campaign tried to go to court to say, hold on, hold on, and the court threw them out, without even hearing the substance.
So, this is why--
BAIER: Right, Senator, but the Supreme Court didn't take up that case either. They did not take up the case, the Supreme Court.
We have seen courts across the country deal not only with not the standing of different cases, but also the evidence, and some of them Trump's -- Trump judges.
I just want to pin you down on what you're trying to do. Are you trying to say that, as of January 20, that President Trump will be president?
HAWLEY: Well, Bret, that depends on what happens on Wednesday.
I mean, this is why we have the debate. This is why we have the votes.
BAIER: No, it doesn't.
I mean, the states, by the Constitution, say they certify the election. They did certify it. By the Constitution, Congress doesn't have the right to overturn the certification, at least as most experts read it.
HAWLEY: Well, Congress is directed under the 12th Amendment to count the electoral votes.
There's a statute that dates back to the 19 -- to the 1800s, rather, 19th century, that says that there is a right to object, there's a right to be heard, and there's also a certification process. We're required--
BAIER: Right. That's from 1876, Senator.
And it's the Tilden-Hayes race, in which there were three states that did not certify their electors, so Congress was left to come up with this system, this commission that eventually got to negotiate a grand bargain.
But now all of the states have certified their elections as of December 14. So, it doesn't, by constitutional ways, open a door to Congress to overturn that, does it?
HAWLEY: Well, no, I'm talking about the statute, Bret.
There's a statute that says -- that governs what Congress does on January the 6th. And it says that we have a vote of certification, and that we have to -- we have the opportunity to debate the results, to certify the results, we count them, and then we certify.
And my point is, this is my only opportunity during this process to raise an objection and to be heard, I don't have standing to file lawsuits. I'm not a prosecutor anymore. I used to be, but I'm not anymore. I can't investigate claims of voter fraud on my own.
But I do have a responsibility in this joint session of Congress to either say I have got no problem with it or I do have a problem with it.
And my constituents expect me -- and they're right -- to say I have a problem.
BAIER: Right, but don't you have a responsibility to your constituents, don't you have a responsibility to tell them that it's not going to be President Trump as of January 21 as well?
HAWLEY: Well, Bret, we're -- I'm trying to do something more than just that.
I mean, this is about the integrity of our elections. And this is about taking a stand where you can take a stand. I mean, you can -- I suppose you can just say, well, listen, nothing I do will matter, it won't matter if I object or not, so I will just sit by and do nothing.
I mean, that's one approach.
But I can tell you that the people of my state, they won't understand that, and they shouldn't. They say, you have the opportunity to stand up and be heard and to object. You have the opportunity to try and force change. And you should. And that's what I'm going to do.
MACCALLUM: So, in terms of those who look at this action and see it as someone who has big dreams for the future and for 2024, a Washington Examiner piece said: "Hawley could be a real threat to Trump because he combines the outgoing president's populism with a full spectrum conservative world view. If Trump doesn't run, Hawley could make a serious play for inheriting Trump's populist mantle outright."
What do you say to that?
HAWLEY: I say that my job, as the United States senator from Missouri, is to speak up for the concerns of Missourians.
And that's exactly what I'm going to do on January 6, and that is all the reason that I'm doing what I'm doing. Missourians expect me to say, hold on a second. We have got concerns.
And this is my opportunity to do that. If I didn't do it, I wouldn't be doing my job.
BAIER: Senator Hawley, we appreciate your time tonight.
MACCALLUM: Thank you, Senator.
HAWLEY: Thank you.
MACCALLUM: So, coming up, our very own -- thank you.
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You have talked about it a little bit differently than Senator Cruz has.\nWhat -- are you trying to overturn the election as it stands now and to keep President Trump in the White House as of January 20?\nHAWLEY: What I'm trying to do, Bret, is to raise the concerns that my constituents have all over Missouri.\nI have heard from people like I have never heard before over the last month about this election. They have major, major concerns about the integrity, the fairness of this election. And they expect me to stand up and to raise those concerns.\nAnd this is the only forum I have to do it. This is the forum that the Constitution and the statutes provide. And they also want action. They want an investigation into these irregularities. They want new election laws to make sure that our elections are secure going forward.\nThis is my chance to stand up and speak for them. And somebody has got to take their concerns seriously and speak up. And that's what I'm going to do.\nMACCALLUM: So, does that mean that you do not expect that you will be able to change the outcome in this process at all?\nHAWLEY: Well, Martha, I can only speak for myself and my own vote.\nMy colleagues in the Senate, you have seen various Senate Republicans say they won't support -- they either won't object to any states or they won't support any challenge, any debate to any of these electors.\nSo, their votes are their votes, and people have to reach their own conclusions. But I think it is absolutely imperative. When you look at something that happened -- or like what happened in Pennsylvania, for example, where you had a state that didn't even follow its own constitution and its own laws, you have got allegations of irregularities in that state and many others, it is vital that we be heard on this issue and we have a chance to debate it.\nAnd that's why I'm going to object.\nMACCALLUM: Can I just let say, that -- the Pennsylvania situation is so specific, and I think it gets a lot of traction with people when you take a look at it. It makes sense.\nI think people are very surprised that the Supreme Court was not interested in it. Do you think that, if the White House or the campaign had focused on Pennsylvania alone, rather than a strategy to sort of throw everything at the wall and see what stuck in all these states, that they might have gotten further with this process?\nHAWLEY: Well, Martha, they tried to go to court in Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign did.\nMACCALLUM: Yes.\nHAWLEY: And so did other Pennsylvania citizens. And they were thrown out. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw them out, improperly.\nHere's the -- here's the gist of it. Pennsylvania politicians changed the law about mail-in balloting. The Pennsylvania constitution doesn't allow universal mail-in balloting. They went ahead and changed it anyway.\nMACCALLUM: Right.\nHAWLEY: Then the Trump campaign tried to go to court to say, hold on, hold on, and the court threw them out, without even hearing the substance.\nSo, this is why--\nBAIER: Right, Senator, but the Supreme Court didn't take up that case either. They did not take up the case, the Supreme Court.\nWe have seen courts across the country deal not only with not the standing of different cases, but also the evidence, and some of them Trump's -- Trump judges.\nI just want to pin you down on what you're trying to do. Are you trying to say that, as of January 20, that President Trump will be president?\nHAWLEY: Well, Bret, that depends on what happens on Wednesday.\nI mean, this is why we have the debate. This is why we have the votes.\nBAIER: No, it doesn't.\nI mean, the states, by the Constitution, say they certify the election. They did certify it. By the Constitution, Congress doesn't have the right to overturn the certification, at least as most experts read it.\nHAWLEY: Well, Congress is directed under the 12th Amendment to count the electoral votes.\nThere's a statute that dates back to the 19 -- to the 1800s, rather, 19th century, that says that there is a right to object, there's a right to be heard, and there's also a certification process. We're required--\nBAIER: Right. That's from 1876, Senator.\nAnd it's the Tilden-Hayes race, in which there were three states that did not certify their electors, so Congress was left to come up with this system, this commission that eventually got to negotiate a grand bargain.\nBut now all of the states have certified their elections as of December 14. So, it doesn't, by constitutional ways, open a door to Congress to overturn that, does it?\nHAWLEY: Well, no, I'm talking about the statute, Bret.\nThere's a statute that says -- that governs what Congress does on January the 6th. And it says that we have a vote of certification, and that we have to -- we have the opportunity to debate the results, to certify the results, we count them, and then we certify.\nAnd my point is, this is my only opportunity during this process to raise an objection and to be heard, I don't have standing to file lawsuits. I'm not a prosecutor anymore. I used to be, but I'm not anymore. I can't investigate claims of voter fraud on my own.\nBut I do have a responsibility in this joint session of Congress to either say I have got no problem with it or I do have a problem with it.\nAnd my constituents expect me -- and they're right -- to say I have a problem.\nBAIER: Right, but don't you have a responsibility to your constituents, don't you have a responsibility to tell them that it's not going to be President Trump as of January 21 as well?\nHAWLEY: Well, Bret, we're -- I'm trying to do something more than just that.\nI mean, this is about the integrity of our elections. And this is about taking a stand where you can take a stand. I mean, you can -- I suppose you can just say, well, listen, nothing I do will matter, it won't matter if I object or not, so I will just sit by and do nothing.\nI mean, that's one approach.\nBut I can tell you that the people of my state, they won't understand that, and they shouldn't. They say, you have the opportunity to stand up and be heard and to object. You have the opportunity to try and force change. And you should. And that's what I'm going to do.\nMACCALLUM: So, in terms of those who look at this action and see it as someone who has big dreams for the future and for 2024, a Washington Examiner piece said: \"Hawley could be a real threat to Trump because he combines the outgoing president's populism with a full spectrum conservative world view. If Trump doesn't run, Hawley could make a serious play for inheriting Trump's populist mantle outright.\"\nWhat do you say to that?\nHAWLEY: I say that my job, as the United States senator from Missouri, is to speak up for the concerns of Missourians.\nAnd that's exactly what I'm going to do on January 6, and that is all the reason that I'm doing what I'm doing. Missourians expect me to say, hold on a second. We have got concerns.\nAnd this is my opportunity to do that. If I didn't do it, I wouldn't be doing my job.\nBAIER: Senator Hawley, we appreciate your time tonight.\nMACCALLUM: Thank you, Senator.\nHAWLEY: Thank you.\nMACCALLUM: So, coming up, our very own -- thank you.\nSen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defended his position to object to the certification of the Electoral College results when Congress takes it up on January 6th. In an interview with FOX News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Monday, Hawley said objecting in the Senate is the only forum provided in the Constitution and he will be doing it on behalf of people who want to probe election irregularities.",
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"Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defended his position to object to the certification of the Electoral College results when Congress takes it up on January 6th. In an interview with FOX News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Monday, Hawley said objecting in the Senate is the only forum provided in the Constitution and he will be doing it on behalf of people who want to probe election irregularities.\r\n\r\nMARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: We are about 24 hours away from the polls closing here in the state of Georgia, and ballot-counting will officially begin.\r\n\r\nBut, on the other side of that, another political storm is brewing in Washington, as Republican lawmakers gear up to contest the Electoral College results. And that will happen during Wednesday's joint session, something that Vice President Pence hinted at today.\r\n\r\nWatch this.\r\n\r\n(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)\r\n\r\nMIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And I promise you, come this Wednesday, we will have our day in Congress.\r\n\r\n(END VIDEO CLIP)\r\n\r\nBRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: One of the senators leading that charge, Josh Hawley, joins us now.\r\n\r\nSenator, thanks for the time. Can you hear us, Senator?\r\n\r\nSEN. JOSH HAWLEY (R-MO): Yes, I can.\r\n\r\nBAIER: OK, gotcha.\r\n\r\nMACCALLUM: OK.\r\n\r\nBAIER: What is the ultimate goal here? You have talked about it a little bit differently than Senator Cruz has.\r\n\r\nWhat -- are you trying to overturn the election as it stands now and to keep President Trump in the White House as of January 20?\r\n\r\nHAWLEY: What I'm trying to do, Bret, is to raise the concerns that my constituents have all over Missouri.\r\n\r\nI have heard from people like I have never heard before over the last month about this election. They have major, major concerns about the integrity, the fairness of this election. And they expect me to stand up and to raise those concerns.\r\n\r\nAnd this is the only forum I have to do it. This is the forum that the Constitution and the statutes provide. And they also want action. They want an investigation into these irregularities. They want new election laws to make sure that our elections are secure going forward.\r\n\r\nThis is my chance to stand up and speak for them. And somebody has got to take their concerns seriously and speak up. And that's what I'm going to do.\r\n\r\nMACCALLUM: So, does that mean that you do not expect that you will be able to change the outcome in this process at all?\r\n\r\nHAWLEY: Well, Martha, I can only speak for myself and my own vote.\r\n\r\nMy colleagues in the Senate, you have seen various Senate Republicans say they won't support -- they either won't object to any states or they won't support any challenge, any debate to any of these electors.\r\n\r\nSo, their votes are their votes, and people have to reach their own conclusions. But I think it is absolutely imperative. When you look at something that happened -- or like what happened in Pennsylvania, for example, where you had a state that didn't even follow its own constitution and its own laws, you have got allegations of irregularities in that state and many others, it is vital that we be heard on this issue and we have a chance to debate it.\r\n\r\nAnd that's why I'm going to object."
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Investigate Trump's Effort To Overturn the Election Like 9/11
We need a credible and comprehensive record of one of the most dangerous presidential transitions in history.
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There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently. The first occurred on January 3, 2020, when Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which was modelled on the American institution. Redfield had just received a report about an unexplained respiratory virus emerging in the city of Wuhan.
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History beckons to all, but only a few dare follow. Such a person is Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who has braved the derision of the news media and announced...
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History beckons to all, but only a few dare follow. Such a person is Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who has braved the derision of the news media and announced that he will not rubber-stamp the putative election victory of Joe Biden.
On Wednesday, Hawley will rise during a joint session of Congress and object to the certification of electors from states where fraud is suspected. In that task, he will join perhaps dozens of House members who say they have studied the evidence and cannot in good conscience declare Biden the victor in several states where fraud has been alleged.
Whether any of Hawley’s Senate colleagues will join him is unknown. Soon-to-be-sworn-in Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has hinted that he plans to object to the certification, but he has not committed to doing so.
It doesn’t matter. Only one senator and one member of the House need to object to the electors of any state in order to force a hearing. As long as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can’t cow Hawley into silence, the process will play out, and history will judge who stood and delivered and who ducked and cowered.
Mind you, there is no reason to expect that the Jan. 6 session of Congress will result in certification of President Trump as the victor of the 2020 election. Despite the extensive evidence of fraud that has been amassed, this vote will be an exercise in raw political power, not an expression of blind justice. Probably the best that Trump supporters can hope for is a fair hearing before the American people regarding the reason why doubts exist as to the legitimacy of Biden’s apparent victory. When it is over, Biden will be holding the reins of government, but he may not have the consent of the governed.
Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama has been leading the charge among the GOP members of the House to deny that consent, and if he and Hawley file a written objection to the electors of any state, then the two houses will separate and engage in two hours of debate on the objection and then vote on whether to accept or reject the challenged electors. This may play out repeatedly for the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada, all of which have had their electoral integrity questioned.
Since both houses would have to vote to reject the challenged electors, it is a certainty that Biden’s majority will remain intact throughout the process. The Democrat-controlled House would not back Trump regardless of what new facts are uncovered. Nor is there any reason to expect that the GOP-controlled Senate would vote for Trump as long as Mitt Romney is the 50th vote. It is even rumored that McConnell is plotting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on how to sabotage the pro-Trump forces.
That’s because, let’s face it, Mitch and Nancy have more in common with each other than either does with Donald Trump. They are institutionalists and he is a constitutionalist. They believe that their power comes from their positions; he believes that his power comes from the people. What is being decided on Jan. 6 is whether the people and the Constitution still matter, or whether the only thing left of any consequence is the lumbering ravenous beast that ate Washington.
Josh Hawley gets it. When he announced that he is willing to fight the behemoth, he knew that his political future was at stake. Either he would be remembered as a man of principle who fought for justice against great odds or be vilified as a man who brought disrepute to himself, his party and democracy itself.
Certainly, among Trump supporters Hawley is seen as a patriot and a hero. We have waited for some Republican senator to stand up and “fight for Trump,” as the rally chant demands. But just as during the American Revolution of 1776, the country is deeply divided, and one man’s patriot is another man’s traitor.
Walmart’s Twitter account tagged Hawley a “sore loser” in a tweet supposedly posted by accident. The Washington Post ran an op-ed by George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson calling Hawley’s ambition a “threat to the republic.” Obama CIA Director John Brennan had the audacity to name Hawley the “most craven, unprincipled and corrupt senator.” Take away the word “senator” and you have a description many have applied to Brennan himself for his role trying to destroy the Trump administration before it began. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who is vying for the chance to be humiliated in the 2024 GOP presidential primary as the next Jeb Bush, said Hawley and Brooks were pointing “a loaded gun at the heart of legitimate self-government.”
The smugly self-satisfied Sasse has arrogated to himself the authority to determine what is legitimate self-government, but he has no more right to speak for his countrymen than Joseph Galloway and other Tories did in 1776. We may or may not be at the point of a second American revolution, but I believe we certainly are at the kind of crossroads described by Thomas Paine in “The American Crisis” when he wrote about standing against tyranny or surrendering to it:
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
It’s not up to Ben Sasse or Mitch McConnell or Vice President Mike Pence or even President Trump to dictate the outcome of the election. They all can make their own decision, but it is up to each member of Congress and each citizen to study the facts and consult their own conscience when deciding whether or not to sanction the Nov. 3 results.
Sen. Hawley is doing his job. The question now is whether the other members of Congress will do theirs, or will they just do as they are told?
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As long as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can’t cow Hawley into silence, the process will play out, and history will judge who stood and delivered and who ducked and cowered.\nMind you, there is no reason to expect that the Jan. 6 session of Congress will result in certification of President Trump as the victor of the 2020 election. Despite the extensive evidence of fraud that has been amassed, this vote will be an exercise in raw political power, not an expression of blind justice. Probably the best that Trump supporters can hope for is a fair hearing before the American people regarding the reason why doubts exist as to the legitimacy of Biden’s apparent victory. When it is over, Biden will be holding the reins of government, but he may not have the consent of the governed.\nRep. Mo Brooks of Alabama has been leading the charge among the GOP members of the House to deny that consent, and if he and Hawley file a written objection to the electors of any state, then the two houses will separate and engage in two hours of debate on the objection and then vote on whether to accept or reject the challenged electors. This may play out repeatedly for the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada, all of which have had their electoral integrity questioned.\nSince both houses would have to vote to reject the challenged electors, it is a certainty that Biden’s majority will remain intact throughout the process. The Democrat-controlled House would not back Trump regardless of what new facts are uncovered. Nor is there any reason to expect that the GOP-controlled Senate would vote for Trump as long as Mitt Romney is the 50th vote. It is even rumored that McConnell is plotting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on how to sabotage the pro-Trump forces.\nThat’s because, let’s face it, Mitch and Nancy have more in common with each other than either does with Donald Trump. They are institutionalists and he is a constitutionalist. They believe that their power comes from their positions; he believes that his power comes from the people. What is being decided on Jan. 6 is whether the people and the Constitution still matter, or whether the only thing left of any consequence is the lumbering ravenous beast that ate Washington.\nJosh Hawley gets it. When he announced that he is willing to fight the behemoth, he knew that his political future was at stake. Either he would be remembered as a man of principle who fought for justice against great odds or be vilified as a man who brought disrepute to himself, his party and democracy itself.\nCertainly, among Trump supporters Hawley is seen as a patriot and a hero. We have waited for some Republican senator to stand up and “fight for Trump,” as the rally chant demands. But just as during the American Revolution of 1776, the country is deeply divided, and one man’s patriot is another man’s traitor.\nWalmart’s Twitter account tagged Hawley a “sore loser” in a tweet supposedly posted by accident. The Washington Post ran an op-ed by George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson calling Hawley’s ambition a “threat to the republic.” Obama CIA Director John Brennan had the audacity to name Hawley the “most craven, unprincipled and corrupt senator.” Take away the word “senator” and you have a description many have applied to Brennan himself for his role trying to destroy the Trump administration before it began. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who is vying for the chance to be humiliated in the 2024 GOP presidential primary as the next Jeb Bush, said Hawley and Brooks were pointing “a loaded gun at the heart of legitimate self-government.”\nThe smugly self-satisfied Sasse has arrogated to himself the authority to determine what is legitimate self-government, but he has no more right to speak for his countrymen than Joseph Galloway and other Tories did in 1776. We may or may not be at the point of a second American revolution, but I believe we certainly are at the kind of crossroads described by Thomas Paine in “The American Crisis” when he wrote about standing against tyranny or surrendering to it:\n“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”\nIt’s not up to Ben Sasse or Mitch McConnell or Vice President Mike Pence or even President Trump to dictate the outcome of the election. They all can make their own decision, but it is up to each member of Congress and each citizen to study the facts and consult their own conscience when deciding whether or not to sanction the Nov. 3 results.\nSen. Hawley is doing his job. The question now is whether the other members of Congress will do theirs, or will they just do as they are told?",
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Hello, it’s Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Globally, the number of COVID-19 infections is closing in on 100 million documented cases. In more than 2.1 million of them, the virus has been fatal. Meanwhile, in the United States, where more than 419,000 of those deaths have taken place, a date has now been set for Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.
In the world of sports, Americans lost a baseball immortal Friday: The great Henry Louis Aaron passed away peacefully in his sleep. In football, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady will be playing in his 10th Super Bowl. Although Brady has won six of the nine championship games he’s played in -- all with the New England Patriots -- earning a seventh ring won’t be easy. The Bucs’ opponent is the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, a team led by young Patrick Mahomes, the best living football player on the planet.
But with all due deference to Joe Namath, who confidently predicted his New York Jets team would win a huge upset in the 1969 Super Bowl (“We’ll win,” said Broadway Joe. “I guarantee it”), actually there are no guarantees in life. We learned that in 2020 -- and 2021 is picking up right where that trying year left off.
With that, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. We also offer a nice complement of original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors this morning, including the following:
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Mitch McConnell’s Time for Choosing. A.B. Stoddard argues that the Senate minority leader’s support for an impeachment conviction of Donald Trump would be the best, and only, way for his party to move on.
Biden’s Biggest Decision. Charles Lipson considers whether the new president will resolve tensions between his party’s left wing and its establishment-corporate center.
Biden Still Opposed to Senate Nuking the Filibuster. Phil Wegmann has the story.
The RCP Takeaway. In the latest podcast episode, Susan Crabtree, Andy Walworth, Tom Bevan and I discuss the new administration’s start.
Evidence Implicates FBI Higher-Ups in Anti-Trump Lawyer’s Deceit. Paul Sperry spotlights newly released details regarding Kevin Clinesmith. A timeline shows the FBI repeatedly disregarded evidence Carter Page was not a traitor so it could spy on him.
Pennsylvania Will Reflect Voter Mood During Biden’s Presidency. Nathan Benefield writes that the state’s suburban voters, who gave Biden his victory, favor moderation, and will watch closely to see if the new administration tracks too far left.
PA Republicans Push for Change in Electing State Supreme Court. Salena Zito examines efforts to have justices elected regionally rather than statewide, which would likely lessen Democrats’ grip on the court.
Reclaiming Common Ground: Racism, Kendi, and the Capitol Riot. Peter Berkowitz responds to criticism of politicians, including Joe Biden, who insisted that the attack “does not represent who we are” as Americans.
Government Waste Thrives in Darkness. Thomas W. Smith spotlights the OpenTheBooks Government Expenditure Library, which has placed local, state and federal spending details online for anyone to scrutinize.
Can Biden Lead Another Youth Movement? David Topel revisits the new president’s 1972 Senate race, in which his appeal to young voters propelled him to victory.
Democrats Have Released a Roadmap to One-Party Rule. Phill Kline finds plenty to fault in a bill that would federalize the elections process and include a number of controversial reforms.
To Save Free Speech, Let “Marsh” Beat a Swamp. K.S. Bruce cites Supreme Court rulings that suggest online “free speech zones” are the answer to growing censorship concerns.
Trump-Era Rules Will Limit Biden’s Energy Activism. At RealClearEnergy, Rupert Darwall describes the restraints.
The Constitutional Studies and Tocqueville Programs: Making Republican Citizens. Mike Sabo explores two undergraduate political science fellowships at the University of Notre Dame.
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Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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This is National School Choice Week, and if there's been one benefit to the pandemic lockdowns of public schools across the country it's this:
American parents...
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This is National School Choice Week, and if there's been one benefit to the pandemic lockdowns of public schools across the country it's this:
American parents have realized they have a choice.
Because working from home, many have had to go to school, too, listening along to the laptop learning on the kitchen table.
They might not be "woke," but they've certainly been awakened. And many don't like what they see.
Some have overheard political indoctrination of their children as a trend of "woke" public education spreads across the nation, from both coasts, and even in the heartland, like Illinois.
Others may not be so politically aware. And some may want their children indoctrinated, to enjoy the full Orwellian experience. But they might also like them to understand "Animal Farm" before living it. And to write and do math, rather than simply recite, "Four legs good, two legs better!"
Many parents aren't thrilled with the remote education their children receive.
And those with means -- Democrats and Republicans -- are already making school choice decisions. They're leaving the locked-down public systems for private schools or leaving for other states so their children may see the inside of a classroom and speak directly to a teacher, socialize with other kids, learn and play sports the way kids once did.
Democratic Party politicians, including mayors and governors, send their own children to private schools that are open, while the teachers unions to whom they answer keep the public schools closed.
So who is left behind?
Black and brown children, and low-income white children stuck in substandard urban public school systems that serve the power interests of the unions and Democratic politicians, but not the kids.
In big cities, these are mostly the children of the poor, and of many front-line workers who go to their jobs as store cashiers, as hourly health care workers, while teachers union members get paid for staying away from school.
There are efforts to give families educational options. In Illinois, for example, there are opportunity scholarships for private schools. While the program is successful, it is at risk in the hostile political environment of the state legislature.
What is required is more.
What is required is real school choice: to allow parents to use their tax dollars for the school they choose, public or private. It is the only way to break the corrupt education monopoly.
Because real school choice is the civil rights issue of our time.
The Democratic Party and the teachers unions that get out the Democratic vote aren't all that enthused about school choice.
In fact, they're all about limiting educational choice for families, as they make war on charter schools.
School choice threatens their monopoly on power. And it also slams uncomfortably into their new favorite word, "equity."
Democrats once talked about "equal opportunity" and quoted the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But now they've hitched their wagons to "equity," which has nothing to do with opportunity but is all about using government to dictate outcomes based on race and gender.
Yet Democrats and progressives see "equity" as the only real answer to redress the nation's past sins.
And they're in the business of deciding who will pay for the sins of the fathers, even if that father was born in some land far away, across the ocean.
The Democratic Party's "equity" argument runs into trouble when confronted with school choice. They don't engage. They avoid.
I called Nathan Hoffman, a policy researcher at the nonprofit education group Empower Illinois, which supports the opportunity scholarships program.
Hoffman, who is Black, supports school choice.
"We cannot have an 'equity' conversation without talking about the most inequitable thing we do with respect to education, which is to force students into schools based solely on the ZIP code they reside in, whether the only way out is to either buy a home in a better neighborhood or buy a seat in a private school," said Hoffman.
"Those who would say the way we achieve 'equity' is by doubling down on the same schools that have failed to teach generations of students to read, write and do math -- while they themselves send their children to different (and better) schools are not interested in true 'equity.' Rather, it's an interest in convenient 'equity,'" Hoffman said.
If President Joe Biden were truly serious about treating Americans fairly, "no matter their ZIP code, race or religion ..." there is one thing he could do:
He'd push for school choice.
He'd use that soft Biden voice that he uses now to sound reasonable when announcing unreasonable presidential executive orders, and call on all the states, red and blue, to enact full school choice, reasonably.
The president might even use the COVID-19 lockdowns of public schools across the country as pretext.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argues in a recent report that kids belong in school, and that public schools could open safely, with reasonable precautions, without fear of transmission.
But as you know, many schools remain closed.
And parents with money, liberals and conservatives, have made their choice to put their kids into schools with open classrooms.
And who's left behind?
The kids who are poor, Black and brown, and low-income white kids who can't afford to move or pay private school tuition.
Yet if Democratic politicians stand up for them, their union boss allies in education would become angry. And that just wouldn't do.
So they're silent.
And "equity" becomes just a word mouthed by politicians, as they tell all Americans that they care about the kids.
(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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And to write and do math, rather than simply recite, \"Four legs good, two legs better!\"\nMany parents aren't thrilled with the remote education their children receive.\nAnd those with means -- Democrats and Republicans -- are already making school choice decisions. They're leaving the locked-down public systems for private schools or leaving for other states so their children may see the inside of a classroom and speak directly to a teacher, socialize with other kids, learn and play sports the way kids once did.\nDemocratic Party politicians, including mayors and governors, send their own children to private schools that are open, while the teachers unions to whom they answer keep the public schools closed.\nSo who is left behind?\nBlack and brown children, and low-income white children stuck in substandard urban public school systems that serve the power interests of the unions and Democratic politicians, but not the kids.\nIn big cities, these are mostly the children of the poor, and of many front-line workers who go to their jobs as store cashiers, as hourly health care workers, while teachers union members get paid for staying away from school.\nThere are efforts to give families educational options. In Illinois, for example, there are opportunity scholarships for private schools. While the program is successful, it is at risk in the hostile political environment of the state legislature.\nWhat is required is more.\nWhat is required is real school choice: to allow parents to use their tax dollars for the school they choose, public or private. It is the only way to break the corrupt education monopoly.\nBecause real school choice is the civil rights issue of our time.\nThe Democratic Party and the teachers unions that get out the Democratic vote aren't all that enthused about school choice.\nIn fact, they're all about limiting educational choice for families, as they make war on charter schools.\nSchool choice threatens their monopoly on power. And it also slams uncomfortably into their new favorite word, \"equity.\"\nDemocrats once talked about \"equal opportunity\" and quoted the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But now they've hitched their wagons to \"equity,\" which has nothing to do with opportunity but is all about using government to dictate outcomes based on race and gender.\nYet Democrats and progressives see \"equity\" as the only real answer to redress the nation's past sins.\nAnd they're in the business of deciding who will pay for the sins of the fathers, even if that father was born in some land far away, across the ocean.\nThe Democratic Party's \"equity\" argument runs into trouble when confronted with school choice. They don't engage. They avoid.\nI called Nathan Hoffman, a policy researcher at the nonprofit education group Empower Illinois, which supports the opportunity scholarships program.\nHoffman, who is Black, supports school choice.\n\"We cannot have an 'equity' conversation without talking about the most inequitable thing we do with respect to education, which is to force students into schools based solely on the ZIP code they reside in, whether the only way out is to either buy a home in a better neighborhood or buy a seat in a private school,\" said Hoffman.\n\"Those who would say the way we achieve 'equity' is by doubling down on the same schools that have failed to teach generations of students to read, write and do math -- while they themselves send their children to different (and better) schools are not interested in true 'equity.' Rather, it's an interest in convenient 'equity,'\" Hoffman said.\nIf President Joe Biden were truly serious about treating Americans fairly, \"no matter their ZIP code, race or religion ...\" there is one thing he could do:\nHe'd push for school choice.\nHe'd use that soft Biden voice that he uses now to sound reasonable when announcing unreasonable presidential executive orders, and call on all the states, red and blue, to enact full school choice, reasonably.\nThe president might even use the COVID-19 lockdowns of public schools across the country as pretext.\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argues in a recent report that kids belong in school, and that public schools could open safely, with reasonable precautions, without fear of transmission.\nBut as you know, many schools remain closed.\nAnd parents with money, liberals and conservatives, have made their choice to put their kids into schools with open classrooms.\nAnd who's left behind?\nThe kids who are poor, Black and brown, and low-income white kids who can't afford to move or pay private school tuition.\nYet if Democratic politicians stand up for them, their union boss allies in education would become angry. And that just wouldn't do.\nSo they're silent.\nAnd \"equity\" becomes just a word mouthed by politicians, as they tell all Americans that they care about the kids.\n(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.",
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Republicans will have to abandon the lies they've perpetrated — starting with the one about Trump winning the election — before we can all get along.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that democracy has prevailed as he took the helm of...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
Biden’s inauguration came at a time of national tumult and uncertainty, a ceremony of resilience as the hallowed American democratic rite unfurled at a U.S. Capitol battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks ago. The chilly Washington morning was dotted with snow flurries, but the sun emerged just before Biden took the oath of office, the quadrennial ceremony persevering even though it was encircled by security forces evocative of a war zone and devoid of crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded. We’ve learned again that democracy is precious and democracy is fragile. At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed,” Biden said. “This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve.”
And then he pivoted to challenges ahead, acknowledging the surging virus that has claimed more than 400,000 lives in the United States. Biden looked out over a capital city dotted with empty storefronts that attest to the pandemic’s deep economic toll and where summer protests laid bare the nation’s renewed reckoning on racial injustice.
“We have much to do in this winter of peril, and significant possibilities: much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build and much to gain,” Biden said. “Few people in our nation’s history have more challenged, or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we’re in now.”
His predecessor’s absence underscored the healing that is needed.
Flouting tradition, Donald Trump departed Washington on Wednesday morning ahead of the inauguration rather than accompany his successor to the Capitol. Though three other former presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — gathered to watch the ceremonial transfer of power, Trump, awaiting his second impeachment trial, instead flew to Florida after stoking grievance among his supporters with the lie that Biden’s win was illegitimate.
Biden, in his third run for the presidency, staked his candidacy less on any distinctive political ideology than on galvanizing a broad coalition of voters around the notion that Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy. Biden did not mention Trump by name in the early moments of his inaugural address but alluded to the rifts his predecessor had helped create.
“I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh, ugly reality of racism, nativism, fear, demonization that have long torn us apart,” Biden said. “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward and we must meet this moment as the United States of America.”
Biden came to office with a well of empathy and resolve born by personal tragedy as well as a depth of experience forged from more than four decades in Washington. At age 78, he was the oldest president inaugurated.
More history was made at his side, as Kamala Harris became the first woman to be vice president. The former U.S. senator from California is also the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency and will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government.
The two were sworn in during an inauguration ceremony with few parallels in history.
Tens of thousands of troops are on the streets to provide security precisely two weeks after a violent mob of Trump supporters, incited by the Republican president, stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of Biden’s victory.
“Here we stand, just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people,” Biden said. “To stop the work of our democracy. To drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen. It will never happen. Not today, not tomorrow. Not ever. Not ever.”
The tense atmosphere evoked the 1861 inauguration of Lincoln, who was secretly transported to Washington to avoid assassins on the eve of the Civil War, or Roosevelt’s inaugural in 1945, when he opted for a small, secure ceremony at the White House in the waning months of World War II.
The day began with a reach across the aisle after four years of bitter partisan battles under Trump. At Biden’s invitation, congressional leaders from both parties bowed their heads in prayer in the socially distanced service just a few blocks from the White House.
Biden was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts; Harris was sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina member of the Supreme Court. Vice President Mike Pence, standing in for Trump, sat nearby as Lady Gaga, holding a gold microphone, sang the National Anthem accompanied by the U.S. Marine Corps band.
Biden oversaw a “Pass in Review,” a military tradition that honors the peaceful transfer of power to a new commander in chief. Later, Biden, Harris and their spouses were to be joined by that trio of former presidents to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Ceremony.
Still later, Biden was to join the end of a slimmed-down inaugural parade as he moves into the White House. Because of the pandemic, much of this year’s parade was to be a virtual affair featuring performances from around the nation.
Full Coverage: Biden's inauguration
In the evening, in lieu of the traditional glitzy balls that welcome a new president to Washington, Biden will take part in a televised concert that also marks the return of A-list celebrities to the White House orbit after they largely eschewed Trump. Among those in the lineup: Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
“I protested 45’s inauguration, and I wanted to be here when he left,” said Raelyn Maxwell of Park City, Utah. ”And I wanted to celebrate the new president.” She brought a bouquet of roses she hoped to toss to Harris and some champagne to toast the occasion.
Trump is the first president in more than a century to skip the inauguration of his successor. In a cold wind, Marine One took off from the White House and soared above a deserted capital city to his own farewell celebration at nearby Joint Base Andrews. There, he boarded Air Force One for the final time as president for the flight to his Florida estate.
“I will always fight for you. I will be watching. I will be listening and I will tell you that the future of this country has never been better,” said Trump, who wished the incoming administration well but once again declined to mention Biden’s name.
The symbolism was striking: The very moment Trump disappeared into the doorway of Air Force One, Biden stepped out of the Blair House, the traditional guest lodging for presidents-in-waiting, and into his motorcade for the short ride to church.
Trump did adhere to one tradition and left a note for Biden in the Oval Office, according to the White House, which did not release its contents. And Trump, in his farewell remarks, hinted at a political return, saying “we will be back in some form.”
And he, without question, will shadow Biden’s first days in office.
Trump’s second impeachment trial could start as early as this week. That could test the ability of the Senate, poised to come under Democratic control, to balance impeachment proceedings with confirmation hearings and votes on Biden’s Cabinet choices.
Biden was eager to go big early, with an ambitious first 100 days that includes a push to speed up the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations to anxious Americans and pass a $1.9 trillion virus relief package. On Day One, he’ll also send an immigration proposal to Capitol Hill that would create an eight-year path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally.
He also planned a 10-day blitz of executive orders on matters that don’t require congressional approval — a mix of substantive and symbolic steps to unwind the Trump years. Among the planned steps: rescinding travel restrictions on people from several predominantly Muslim countries; rejoining the Paris climate accord; issuing a mask mandate for those on federal property; and ordering agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from their families after crossing the border.
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Additional reporting by Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Darlene Superville in Washington and Michelle L. Price in Las Vegas.
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.\nBiden’s inauguration came at a time of national tumult and uncertainty, a ceremony of resilience as the hallowed American democratic rite unfurled at a U.S. Capitol battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks ago. The chilly Washington morning was dotted with snow flurries, but the sun emerged just before Biden took the oath of office, the quadrennial ceremony persevering even though it was encircled by security forces evocative of a war zone and devoid of crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n“The will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded. We’ve learned again that democracy is precious and democracy is fragile. At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed,” Biden said. “This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve.”\nAnd then he pivoted to challenges ahead, acknowledging the surging virus that has claimed more than 400,000 lives in the United States. Biden looked out over a capital city dotted with empty storefronts that attest to the pandemic’s deep economic toll and where summer protests laid bare the nation’s renewed reckoning on racial injustice.\n“We have much to do in this winter of peril, and significant possibilities: much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build and much to gain,” Biden said. “Few people in our nation’s history have more challenged, or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we’re in now.”\nHis predecessor’s absence underscored the healing that is needed.\nFlouting tradition, Donald Trump departed Washington on Wednesday morning ahead of the inauguration rather than accompany his successor to the Capitol. Though three other former presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — gathered to watch the ceremonial transfer of power, Trump, awaiting his second impeachment trial, instead flew to Florida after stoking grievance among his supporters with the lie that Biden’s win was illegitimate.\nBiden, in his third run for the presidency, staked his candidacy less on any distinctive political ideology than on galvanizing a broad coalition of voters around the notion that Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy. Biden did not mention Trump by name in the early moments of his inaugural address but alluded to the rifts his predecessor had helped create.\n“I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh, ugly reality of racism, nativism, fear, demonization that have long torn us apart,” Biden said. “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward and we must meet this moment as the United States of America.”\nBiden came to office with a well of empathy and resolve born by personal tragedy as well as a depth of experience forged from more than four decades in Washington. At age 78, he was the oldest president inaugurated.\nMore history was made at his side, as Kamala Harris became the first woman to be vice president. The former U.S. senator from California is also the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency and will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government.\nThe two were sworn in during an inauguration ceremony with few parallels in history.\nTens of thousands of troops are on the streets to provide security precisely two weeks after a violent mob of Trump supporters, incited by the Republican president, stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of Biden’s victory.\n“Here we stand, just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people,” Biden said. “To stop the work of our democracy. To drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen. It will never happen. Not today, not tomorrow. Not ever. Not ever.”\nThe tense atmosphere evoked the 1861 inauguration of Lincoln, who was secretly transported to Washington to avoid assassins on the eve of the Civil War, or Roosevelt’s inaugural in 1945, when he opted for a small, secure ceremony at the White House in the waning months of World War II.\nThe day began with a reach across the aisle after four years of bitter partisan battles under Trump. At Biden’s invitation, congressional leaders from both parties bowed their heads in prayer in the socially distanced service just a few blocks from the White House.\nBiden was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts; Harris was sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina member of the Supreme Court. Vice President Mike Pence, standing in for Trump, sat nearby as Lady Gaga, holding a gold microphone, sang the National Anthem accompanied by the U.S. Marine Corps band.\nBiden oversaw a “Pass in Review,” a military tradition that honors the peaceful transfer of power to a new commander in chief. Later, Biden, Harris and their spouses were to be joined by that trio of former presidents to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Ceremony.\nStill later, Biden was to join the end of a slimmed-down inaugural parade as he moves into the White House. Because of the pandemic, much of this year’s parade was to be a virtual affair featuring performances from around the nation.\nFull Coverage: Biden's inauguration\nIn the evening, in lieu of the traditional glitzy balls that welcome a new president to Washington, Biden will take part in a televised concert that also marks the return of A-list celebrities to the White House orbit after they largely eschewed Trump. Among those in the lineup: Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake and Lin-Manuel Miranda.\n“I protested 45’s inauguration, and I wanted to be here when he left,” said Raelyn Maxwell of Park City, Utah. ”And I wanted to celebrate the new president.” She brought a bouquet of roses she hoped to toss to Harris and some champagne to toast the occasion.\nTrump is the first president in more than a century to skip the inauguration of his successor. In a cold wind, Marine One took off from the White House and soared above a deserted capital city to his own farewell celebration at nearby Joint Base Andrews. There, he boarded Air Force One for the final time as president for the flight to his Florida estate.\n“I will always fight for you. I will be watching. I will be listening and I will tell you that the future of this country has never been better,” said Trump, who wished the incoming administration well but once again declined to mention Biden’s name.\nThe symbolism was striking: The very moment Trump disappeared into the doorway of Air Force One, Biden stepped out of the Blair House, the traditional guest lodging for presidents-in-waiting, and into his motorcade for the short ride to church.\nTrump did adhere to one tradition and left a note for Biden in the Oval Office, according to the White House, which did not release its contents. And Trump, in his farewell remarks, hinted at a political return, saying “we will be back in some form.”\nAnd he, without question, will shadow Biden’s first days in office.\nTrump’s second impeachment trial could start as early as this week. That could test the ability of the Senate, poised to come under Democratic control, to balance impeachment proceedings with confirmation hearings and votes on Biden’s Cabinet choices.\nBiden was eager to go big early, with an ambitious first 100 days that includes a push to speed up the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations to anxious Americans and pass a $1.9 trillion virus relief package. On Day One, he’ll also send an immigration proposal to Capitol Hill that would create an eight-year path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally.\nHe also planned a 10-day blitz of executive orders on matters that don’t require congressional approval — a mix of substantive and symbolic steps to unwind the Trump years. Among the planned steps: rescinding travel restrictions on people from several predominantly Muslim countries; rejoining the Paris climate accord; issuing a mask mandate for those on federal property; and ordering agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from their families after crossing the border.\n___\nAdditional reporting by Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Darlene Superville in Washington and Michelle L. Price in Las Vegas.",
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Biden Is Manufacturing a Crisis at the Border | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's International Restoration Project Has Begun | RealClearPolitics
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Dems Are Using Capitol Riot to Smear Republican Voters | RealClearPolitics
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What happened at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 was unprecedented and unacceptable. But Democrats seem to see it as an opportunity to vilify not just President Trump but every single person who has ever supported him.
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Who Dropped the Ball in Securing the Capitol? | RealClearPolitics
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As COVID-19 began sweeping across the world last spring, Twitter experienced phenomenal growth with much of the planet’s population confined to their homes, helping the platform recover from a seven-year slump in daily tweet volume. As the pandemic has worn on, has Twitter continued to grow? How did the changes the platform made around the 2020 presidential election affect its growth and has its banning of Donald Trump caused it to lose users?
While Twitter itself does not publish detailed usage statistics, it is possible to estimate its growth from the daily random sample that it makes available of 1% of all tweets, which is highly correlated with its actual growth. Using this approach, the timeline below shows the estimated number of tweets per day on Twitter from Jan. 1, 2012 through Jan. 5, 2021 (gaps are days with missing data).
Since its peak in July 2013, Twitter was on a years-long decline through the end of 2018, but had begun slowly growing again over the course of 2019. Then, in the space of just two weeks in the middle of March 2020, as lockdowns swept the world, the platform grew by almost 100 million tweets a day, rising back to its July 2013 numbers.
The timeline below zooms into the Jan. 1, 2020 through Jan. 5, 2021 period, showing this phenomenal growth. Even as lockdowns eased across the world earlier this year, Twitter use did not decline, showing remarkable staying power. From Oct. 7-20, daily Twitter volume increased another 50 million tweets a day as all eyes focused on the U.S. election, then suddenly dropped by around 70 million tweets a day almost overnight on Oct. 21-22, and only began to recover on Dec. 17. What might explain this strange anomaly?
The answer, as it turns out, was Twitter’s attempt at combating election misinformation. On Oct. 20, the company announced a set of worldwide changes, the most significant of which was the addition of “friction” to retweeting. Users attempting to retweet a post would be presented with a textbox asking them to add their own commentary to the post, in the “hope it will encourage everyone to not only consider why they are amplifying a Tweet, but also increase the likelihood that people add their own thoughts, reactions and perspectives to the conversation.”
Other changes included limiting recommendations and trend visibility, but these were rolled back shortly after the election. It was not until Dec. 16 that the company finally undid its retweeting changes, citing a 20% reduction in retweets. In reversing these changes, Twitter acknowledged that “this change slowed the spread of misleading information by virtue of an overall reduction in the amount of sharing on the service.”
The fact that such a minor change to sharing behavior could lead to such a large drop in the total daily Twitter volume, wiping away all its pandemic growth in a single day, reinforces just how fragile social platforms are. Social media works precisely because platforms make it effortless to share our every thought and to amplify on impulse anything we see. Twitter’s experiment shows that making the sharing process more thoughtful is incompatible with growth, helping to explain why platforms have been so reluctant to make sweeping changes to combat the spread of falsehoods.
Moreover, the fact that none of Twitter’s changes had a significant impact on misinformation alone without severe side effects to the platform as a whole reinforces the fact that there are few “quick fixes” to social media’s ills.
How has Twitter evolved over the course of the pandemic?
From less than 1% a decade ago, around 10% of all tweets each day today are either by a verified user or are a retweet of a verified user’s post, showing just how much the site has become an amplification service for so-called elites. Twitter’s electoral retweeting changes decreased this number steadily to around 8% over the weeks following the election, showing its outsized impact on elite voices.
Prior to Twitter’s retweet change, just over half of all tweets each day were retweets, while a third of daily tweets were replies and 80% mentioned another user. In other words, Twitter today is less conversation and more amplification and advertising service, in which users come to share the thoughts of others and name-check them, often in hopes of getting attention.
The George Floyd protests prompted a brief surge in retweets, especially retweets of verified users, and user mentions, but a decrease in replies, reinforcing the platform’s role as an amplification tool. Yet, the early days of the pandemic showed no such surge in retweets of verified accounts, suggesting its role in amplifying public health messaging as lockdowns spread was more limited.
The percentage of tweets containing precise geographic coordinates has continued to fall, to less than 0.1% of all tweets, while English language tweets still constitute around 55%-60% of daily tweets. The influx of new users the platform attracted at the beginning of the pandemic has remained, though the median age of an actively posting Twitter account remains around 2.2 to 2.7 years. After Twitter changed its retweeting behavior, the median account age of tweeting users dropped by about 100 days, suggesting that longer-term users were more affected by the change.
Earlier this month, Twitter banned perhaps its most famous user, Donald Trump. In the weeks since, his tweets have faded from television news, but contrary to some predictions, even the total loss of all of his social media accounts has barely dented television’s fixation on him, which still holds at around 10%-15% of total airtime each day this year.
In the aftermath of Trump’s ban, there were many who asked whether the company could survive the loss of one of its highest profile users. At the time of his ban, Trump had 90 million followers when Twitter itself reported having just 187 million total monetizable daily users. Moreover, his 90 million followers were extremely active on the platform. While Trump’s media star has yet to wane, has Twitter’s growth come to an end with the loss of Trump?
The answer is that Trump’s ban doesn’t even register as a blip on Twitter’s growth this year, which has continued unabated after his ban. In turn, this suggests that Twitter may feel more emboldened to silence other prominent voices, safe in the knowledge that doing so won’t impact its growth.
In the end, rather than a mutually co-dependent relationship, Trump is still able to dominate the media landscape three weeks after his Twitter ban, while it also appears that Trump was not so important to Twitter’s future either.
RealClear Media Fellow Kalev Leetaru is a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. His past roles include fellow in residence at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government.
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"As COVID-19 began sweeping across the world last spring, Twitter experienced phenomenal growth with much of the planet’s population confined to their homes, helping the platform recover from a seven-year slump in daily tweet volume. As the pandemic has worn on, has Twitter continued to grow? How did the changes the platform made around the 2020 presidential election affect its growth and has its banning of Donald Trump caused it to lose users?\nWhile Twitter itself does not publish detailed usage statistics, it is possible to estimate its growth from the daily random sample that it makes available of 1% of all tweets, which is highly correlated with its actual growth. Using this approach, the timeline below shows the estimated number of tweets per day on Twitter from Jan. 1, 2012 through Jan. 5, 2021 (gaps are days with missing data).\nSince its peak in July 2013, Twitter was on a years-long decline through the end of 2018, but had begun slowly growing again over the course of 2019. Then, in the space of just two weeks in the middle of March 2020, as lockdowns swept the world, the platform grew by almost 100 million tweets a day, rising back to its July 2013 numbers.\nThe timeline below zooms into the Jan. 1, 2020 through Jan. 5, 2021 period, showing this phenomenal growth. Even as lockdowns eased across the world earlier this year, Twitter use did not decline, showing remarkable staying power. From Oct. 7-20, daily Twitter volume increased another 50 million tweets a day as all eyes focused on the U.S. election, then suddenly dropped by around 70 million tweets a day almost overnight on Oct. 21-22, and only began to recover on Dec. 17. What might explain this strange anomaly?\nThe answer, as it turns out, was Twitter’s attempt at combating election misinformation. On Oct. 20, the company announced a set of worldwide changes, the most significant of which was the addition of “friction” to retweeting. Users attempting to retweet a post would be presented with a textbox asking them to add their own commentary to the post, in the “hope it will encourage everyone to not only consider why they are amplifying a Tweet, but also increase the likelihood that people add their own thoughts, reactions and perspectives to the conversation.”\nOther changes included limiting recommendations and trend visibility, but these were rolled back shortly after the election. It was not until Dec. 16 that the company finally undid its retweeting changes, citing a 20% reduction in retweets. In reversing these changes, Twitter acknowledged that “this change slowed the spread of misleading information by virtue of an overall reduction in the amount of sharing on the service.”\nThe fact that such a minor change to sharing behavior could lead to such a large drop in the total daily Twitter volume, wiping away all its pandemic growth in a single day, reinforces just how fragile social platforms are. Social media works precisely because platforms make it effortless to share our every thought and to amplify on impulse anything we see. Twitter’s experiment shows that making the sharing process more thoughtful is incompatible with growth, helping to explain why platforms have been so reluctant to make sweeping changes to combat the spread of falsehoods.\nMoreover, the fact that none of Twitter’s changes had a significant impact on misinformation alone without severe side effects to the platform as a whole reinforces the fact that there are few “quick fixes” to social media’s ills.\nHow has Twitter evolved over the course of the pandemic?\nFrom less than 1% a decade ago, around 10% of all tweets each day today are either by a verified user or are a retweet of a verified user’s post, showing just how much the site has become an amplification service for so-called elites. Twitter’s electoral retweeting changes decreased this number steadily to around 8% over the weeks following the election, showing its outsized impact on elite voices.\nPrior to Twitter’s retweet change, just over half of all tweets each day were retweets, while a third of daily tweets were replies and 80% mentioned another user. In other words, Twitter today is less conversation and more amplification and advertising service, in which users come to share the thoughts of others and name-check them, often in hopes of getting attention.\nThe George Floyd protests prompted a brief surge in retweets, especially retweets of verified users, and user mentions, but a decrease in replies, reinforcing the platform’s role as an amplification tool. Yet, the early days of the pandemic showed no such surge in retweets of verified accounts, suggesting its role in amplifying public health messaging as lockdowns spread was more limited.\nThe percentage of tweets containing precise geographic coordinates has continued to fall, to less than 0.1% of all tweets, while English language tweets still constitute around 55%-60% of daily tweets. The influx of new users the platform attracted at the beginning of the pandemic has remained, though the median age of an actively posting Twitter account remains around 2.2 to 2.7 years. After Twitter changed its retweeting behavior, the median account age of tweeting users dropped by about 100 days, suggesting that longer-term users were more affected by the change.\nEarlier this month, Twitter banned perhaps its most famous user, Donald Trump. In the weeks since, his tweets have faded from television news, but contrary to some predictions, even the total loss of all of his social media accounts has barely dented television’s fixation on him, which still holds at around 10%-15% of total airtime each day this year.\nIn the aftermath of Trump’s ban, there were many who asked whether the company could survive the loss of one of its highest profile users. At the time of his ban, Trump had 90 million followers when Twitter itself reported having just 187 million total monetizable daily users. Moreover, his 90 million followers were extremely active on the platform. While Trump’s media star has yet to wane, has Twitter’s growth come to an end with the loss of Trump?\nThe answer is that Trump’s ban doesn’t even register as a blip on Twitter’s growth this year, which has continued unabated after his ban. In turn, this suggests that Twitter may feel more emboldened to silence other prominent voices, safe in the knowledge that doing so won’t impact its growth.\nIn the end, rather than a mutually co-dependent relationship, Trump is still able to dominate the media landscape three weeks after his Twitter ban, while it also appears that Trump was not so important to Twitter’s future either.\nRealClear Media Fellow Kalev Leetaru is a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. His past roles include fellow in residence at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government.",
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McConnell Will Learn the Hard Way What Voters Think | RealClearPolitics
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Alittle after 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, protesters crashed into the U.S. Capitol and forced a halt in the certification of the electoral vote. As the Senate reconvened that night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), speaking as though he had just survived 9/11, condemned the “thugs” waving flags who had forced them to run away for a few hours. Man of the People Mitt Romney, who probably will not repeat his mistake of flying commercial, called the Capitol storm “an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.”
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In Show of Monopolistic Force, Big Tech Destroys Parler | RealClearPolitics
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In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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Can Loeffler & Perdue Exceed the Margin of Fraud? | RealClearPolitics
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Can Loeffler & Perdue Exceed the Margin of Fraud?
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Can Loeffler & Perdue Exceed the Margin of Fraud?
The key to winning Georgia senate seats: exceed the margin of fraud.
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The Significance of Electing Working-Class Politicians | RealClearPolitics
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The Significance of Electing Working-Class Politicians
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The Significance of Electing Working-Class Politicians
The pandemic has underscored why class diversity in Congress is so crucial.
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| 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
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[] | 2021-01-26T22:21:01 | null | 2021-01-26T00:00:00 |
Too Late? Republicans Finally Realize Big Tech's Threat | RealClearPolitics
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Too Late? Republicans Finally Realize Big Tech's Threat
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Before the election, most American conservatives were in favor of standing up to Big Tech — but most were also against changing the laws
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[] | 2021-01-12T07:51:53 | null | 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
We Need a New Media System | RealClearPolitics
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We Need a New Media System
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We Need a New Media System
If you sell culture war all day, don't be surprised by the real-world consequences
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| 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
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Why Did Biden Kill Keystone? | RealClearPolitics
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Why Did Biden Kill Keystone?
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Why Did Biden Kill Keystone?
Biden's call for a 'foreign policy for the middle class' suddenly looks laughable
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| 2021-01-26T00:00:00 |
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[] | 2021-01-04T19:56:17 | null | 2021-01-04T00:00:00 |
Joe Biden's First 100 Days Are Critical | RealClearPolitics
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Joe Biden's First 100 Days Are Critical
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We asked 10 activists, analysts, and elected officials to examine what Biden can and should do to undo the damage caused by Trump.
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Cutting Police Is the Culmination of Calls for Reform | RealClearPolitics
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Cutting Police Is the Culmination of Calls for Reform
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Cutting Police Is the Culmination of Calls for Reform
Democrats worry the ‘snappy slogan’ could put voters off but it is driving necessary change
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GameStop Story Illustrates What I’ve Told You About the Elites | RealClearPolitics
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The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind | RealClearPolitics
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The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind
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The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind
The Education Department lies in ruins right when it's needed most.
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| 2021-01-03T00:00:00 |
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GA Results Mark a Sea Change in U.S. Politics | RealClearPolitics
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GA Results Mark a Sea Change in U.S. Politics
Raphael Warnock's victory and Jon Ossoff's apparent win would break Mitch McConnell's grip on the Senate and the country.
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The Danger of Woke Politics | RealClearPolitics
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The Danger of Woke Politics
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The Danger of Woke Politics
The Biden Administration is on track to stiff our desperate working class.
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The ignominious events in the nation's capital on Wednesday, Jan. 6 will not soon be forgotten. Images of an enraged mob overpowering police and breaching the...
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If Trump Cares About the Movement He Helped Build, He Should Now Go Away
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The ignominious events in the nation's capital on Wednesday, Jan. 6 will not soon be forgotten. Images of an enraged mob overpowering police and breaching the walls of the U.S. Capitol, the West's preeminent citadel of republican self-governance, will hinder Americans' already cratering faith in their government's institutional integrity and tarnish their belief in American exceptionalism. These are the sort of sordid deeds, and the sort of searing images, that one normally associates with malefactors in a developing nation or a banana republic -- not what Abraham Lincoln once called the "last best hope of earth."
Hypocrisy, of course, abounds. It is more than a little rich for partisan Democrats and their sycophantic media mouthpieces to only now condemn anarchic mayhem and the wanton destruction of private and public property, following their systemic refusal to do so amid last summer's harrowing, monthslong antifa/Black Lives Matter riotous rampage across the nation's urban corridors. As for the "health professional" charlatans who once argued against restricting the "mostly peaceful" protests in the name of the greater "public health crisis" of "systemic racism," they are now nowhere to be found during an actual crisis of national political health, wherein recent polling suggests nearly 40% of Americans doubt the legitimacy of the recent presidential election.
But that hypocrisy, galling and lacking in self-awareness as it may be, still must not obscure the moment's imperative. And that takes us to President Donald Trump, the Republican Party and the state of American conservatism.
The election of Trump in 2016 was a well-deserved wrecking ball to the cobwebbed pieties of Conservatism Inc. and the dripping disdain with which the GOP's libertarian-oriented donor class deigned to look at its more populist voting base. Only Trump, the exotic and iconoclastic real estate magnate who rose to prominence wholly outside Conservatism Inc.'s formative institutions, was able to break through the staleness and more authentically stand with Republican voters on issues such as immigration, trade and foreign policy.
But while the Trump phenomenon was a salutary earthquake, forcing conservatives to retire their bromides and reconsider the difference between timeless principles and prudential policies, the 45th president largely failed to leave a constructive, substantive, forward-looking conservative agenda in his wake. This is hardly Trump's fault; far too many administration officials and GOP poohbahs remained wedded to the dead consensus, and in any event, it is hardly incumbent upon a commander in chief to play the role of egghead policy wonk.
Fortunately, there now exists a sprawling network of intellectual and media institutions dedicated to fleshing out this "new right" agenda -- one that is more prudential and less wedded to abstract dogmatism; more overtly communitarian and protective of religion; and more focused on national health and the common good over the excessive economic and cultural deregulation that are hallmarks of post-World War II neoliberalism. I would know because I am a part of this movement. And in light of the past week, especially the loss of two eminently winnable Senate races in Georgia and the shameful manner in which Trump conducted himself during Wednesday's seditious Capitol storming, it is imperative for our nascent movement's prospects that President Trump go away after Jan. 20.
He is highly unlikely to do so, of course. The flip side of Trump's irreverence and indifference toward established norms, which helped make him the perfect political disrupter, is his turgid ego and need to, at all times, be the center of attention. But that ego, which long manifested itself in anodyne Twitter rants, has now come at a real cost. This peculiar election featured myriad irregularities and was blighted by the proliferation of inherently destabilizing mail-in balloting, but it is highly unlikely that there was enough fraud to alter the Electoral College margin. The president's insistence to the contrary over the past two months undoubtedly helped sink Georgia Republicans -- disastrously handing over the Senate to Democrats -- and his deeply irresponsible decision to inflame rally-goers on Wednesday may have provided rhetorical cover for Capitol trespassers. The fact this was done under a "Make America Great Again" veneer could well poison new-right/common-good-conservatism efforts to evangelize and build out something meaningful and substantive.
Donald Trump the wrecking ball was much-needed -- and tremendously successful. But it is time for conservatives, who will spend the next four years in exile, to cultivate a constructive governing agenda out of this now-toxified rubble. It is no small irony that our imperative to do the latter demands that Trump now get out of the way and let us finish his work.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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Facebook has a problem with Americas greatest president. Abraham Lincolns run-in with the tech giant began late last year, when Republic Book Publishers...
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Facebook has a problem with America’s greatest president. Abraham Lincoln’s run-in with the tech giant began late last year, when Republic Book Publishers decided to buy social media ads for my new historical novel, “Old Abe.”
The marketing team created and submitted ads to a handful of platforms. Right away, to our surprise, we hit a roadblock at Facebook, which sent a message saying: “Rejected - This ad doesn’t comply with our Advertising Policies.”
Puzzled, we began jumping through hoops to fix the situation. We appealed the decision but got another rejection: “Following another review, this ad won’t run.”
According to Facebook, the “Old Abe” ads violate a ban on advertising about “social issues, elections, or politics.” Facebook started the ban shortly before the 2020 presidential election and has left it in place for the time being.
Our appeals exhausted, we threw in the towel. Facebook was determined to cancel Lincoln – at least in this case.
This is absurd. There is nothing controversial about this novel. It tells the story of the last few years of Lincoln’s life, following him through his presidency and the Civil War. It has nothing to do with the 2020 election or other recent events. The only thing political about it is 19th century politics, for goodness sake.
Maybe a Facebook ad checker thinks Lincoln isn’t woke enough. In some quarters, he has been under attack lately. For example, an advisory committee in San Francisco recently recommended stripping Lincoln’s name from a local high school, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison student government voted to remove the school’s beloved Lincoln statue.
The ads we submitted contain three quotes by former Vice President Mike Pence (“Best Lincoln book I’ve ever read”), former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett (“This book makes you love Lincoln”) and The Civil War Monitor magazine (“Will appeal to generations of readers”). Maybe someone saw the name Pence or Bennett and hit the reject button.
Perhaps one of Big Tech’s infamous algorithms got us. Or perhaps someone was simply being overly cautious about applying a standard.
We’ll probably never know why our Lincoln ads were rejected, which is part of the absurdity.
But it’s more than just absurd. It’s dangerous. It’s dangerous because it is part of a larger trend toward the control of discourse and the spread of historical ignorance.
We now live in a world where all-powerful tech companies do practically whatever they want to influence public opinion. Sometimes their actions seem partisan and self-serving, and sometimes arbitrary. Facebook, in effect, censored our ads without knowing the content of the book.
America has long been the world’s greatest marketplace for the free exchange of ideas and information. Facebook was founded to connect people and help them communicate, and in many ways it does that well. But now it has entered the business of blocking communication it does not like, sometimes for vague reasons.
In this instance, Facebook, intentionally or not, is taking part in a decline of Americans’ sense of history. A publisher is being told: No, you cannot promote a book about one of America’s greatest heroes, the author of the Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation, a man who gave his life for this country so it would not collapse. Facebook does this in a time when statues of not only Lincoln but Jefferson, Washington, other American icons are being pulled down or defaced.
To be clear, we are not dependent on Facebook to reach a market for this book. We can advertise on other platforms. But a heavy-handed decision like this, cloaked in cyberspace, is the kind of collateral damage caused when elite institutions try to control political discourse.
President Biden took office last week urging unity in divided times. Good luck with that if our country is at a place where advertising a novel about Abraham Lincoln -- the man generations have revered as “the Great Unifier -- is somehow problematic.
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln spoke to his fellow Americans about the “mystic chords of memory” that connect us to this country’s great history and “swell the chorus of the Union.”
I wrote “Old Abe” because Lincoln’s story is one of those mystic chords. It is important that we know his story because he stands, in many ways, center stage in our great American story.
In this case, Facebook has diminished the chorus of our Union.
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Why Twitter Is Right to Deplatform Trump | RealClearPolitics
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Another Reminder Teachers Unions Are Putting Kids Last | RealClearPolitics
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Another Reminder Teachers Unions Are Putting Kids Last
Montclair cancellation of K-12 reopening is yet another reminder that unions are putting students last.
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What the Democratic Senate Means for Power and Policy | RealClearPolitics
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Twitter Mob Targets Wrong Man in Capitol Riot | RealClearPolitics
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Why I Am Joining the Jan. 6 DC March for Trump | RealClearPolitics
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On Nov. 4, 2020, I suddenly saw with my own eyes the depth and breadth of the political corruption myself and others had tried to prevent for so many years.
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The Fate of Biden’s Agenda Hinges on Outcome of GA Runoffs | RealClearPolitics
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The Challenge of Biden's First Days | RealClearPolitics
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The 1776 Report | RealClearPolitics
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The declared purpose of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission is to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.”
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Trump Impeachment DOA in Senate | RealClearPolitics
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The Democrats will quickly realize that the unconstitutional impeachment they are attempting against Trump will be DOA.
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How Media Flipped Script on Violent Protests After Capitol Riot | RealClearPolitics
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How Media Flipped Script on Violent Protests After Capitol Riot
After a year of equivocation on destructive BLM riots, journalists appear to reverse position.
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Why the Left Wants to Cancel the 1776 Report | RealClearPolitics
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Why the Left Wants to Cancel the 1776 Report
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How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump | RealClearPolitics
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How to Avoid Another Monster Like Trump
It's not enough to denounce the storming of the Capitol. Where Trump brought death and American carnage, Democrats now need to deliver real economic relief.
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The 'Common Carrier' Solution to Social-Media Censorship | RealClearPolitics
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Railroads can’t refuse to carry passengers for their political views. The same rule should apply to online monopolies, legal scholar Richard Epstein argues.
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The Dark Days of Higher Education Are Here | RealClearPolitics
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The Dark Days of Higher Education Are Here
Academic bureaucracy is behind the rise of a new anti-classics movement.
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In the last 20 years, our countrys national debt has exploded. In 2001, when George W. Bush took office, the national debt was $5.8 trillion. It took...
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In the last 20 years, our country’s national debt has exploded. In 2001, when George W. Bush took office, the national debt was $5.8 trillion. It took around 225 years -- booms, busts, depressions, wars, etc. -- to amass that much national debt. In just eight years, Bush and a compliant Congress doubled the number to $11.7 trillion. In Barack Obama’s two terms, another $8.6 trillion was added. During the past four years, Donald Trump and Congress fought many battles, but not over this: In that time, America’s future was mortgaged to the tune of another $6.7 trillion. Today, the national debt is around $27 trillion, a four-fold increase in the last two decades. That doesn’t count unfunded mandates. And there is no end in sight.
Whenever human beings gather to accomplish a task, any task, without strong and effective oversight, a natural evolution takes place. Whether it be in business, academia, philanthropy, or government, every activity morphs from the original goal to self-aggrandizement. In government, this process is particularly toxic. There are no profits, let alone a profit motive. No concern with productivity. No incentive to turn off the proverbial lights. No measure of success. No motivation to end counterproductive activities.
Add to this mix the influence of public employee unions. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman were opposed to them for reasons that long ago became apparent. The goal of all unions is self-preservation – just as management’s is to maximize profits. But public employee unions add two other noxious elements to the mix: (1) defending job incompetence and (2) heavy-handed involvement in the electoral process in a search for pliant politicians who can help them achieve their objectives by spending ever more of the public’s money.
Now, out of the blue, the experts-for-hire have a new scheme to justify continued fiscal irresponsibility: modern monetary theory. It holds that so long as interest rates are lower than inflation rates, politicians can spend away. That is not a theory. It is idle wordplay, and the victim of such sophistry is the American taxpayer -- and future generations of American taxpayers.
Never in our history has fiscal soundness been more important. The exploding annual deficits of the last 20 years have produced a national debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product that is as high as it was during World War II even though our nation is at peace. Moreover, many severely underfunded programs such as Social Security and Medicaid are not included in today’s debt calculations, although they should be.
The passage of a 5,593-page must-pass-quickly bill in December was indisputable evidence that the national debt will never be addressed from the top down. That legislation was sent to the Senate two hours before the vote. Who can read 2,800 pages per hour, 47 pages per minute? How can a responsible lawmakers vote on bills they have not read? While our political leaders have repeatedly told us how important this bill was to the survival of so many Americans, they delayed the bill for months for political reasons. A crucial-to-the-survival-of-so-many-Americans pork-filled bill? Some $10 million to Pakistan for “gender programs”? Another $700 million to Sudan for Lord knows what? And on and on and on.
History has a clear and repeated message: If we do not address this exploding debt, it will bring to life all-knowing leaders, leaders who Friedrich Hayek said possessed the “fatal conceit.” They think they know more than is knowable. Leaders who have all the answers for everything they define as a problem: More regulations. More government control. More taxes. This is a noxious cure that has never succeeded, one that has left country after country in economic tatters.
Fortunately, the world in changing. Today, we have the means to address this financial irresponsibility, this threat to our country as our founders envisioned it. We are immersed in the Information Age, the Big Data world, the Cloud world, the Bitcoin world. The cost of communications is close to zero. Smartphones, iPads, and computers are a crucial part of everyday life. With the touch of a finger, one click, information on every topic is available 24 hours a day. Buy anything. Sell anything. Today, instant access to information is embedded in our culture. Why should government expenditures be exempt?
Transparency has always been the best antidote to rein in profligate government spending. Having instant information at our fingertips gives fiscally responsible Americans a powerful new weapon in the War on Waste. Today, there is no reason why every local, state, and federal government expenditure is not online, in real-time, available to every citizen. Taxpayers should be able to attend a school board meeting and pull up school expenses on their phones.
OpenTheBooks has a formidable weapon to unleash the voting public’s ability to address this exploding national debt, this lack of transparency, this threat to our democracy -- the OpenTheBooks Government Expenditure Library, which contains over 5 billion (and growing) local, state, and federal government expenditures. Last year, we filed 41,500 Freedom of Information Act requests. We sued several government entities to encourage them to provide us the same information we collect from other states.
The OpenTheBooks Government Expenditure Library is open to everyone: Citizens. Politicians. Students. Academics. Scholars. Journalists. Think tanks. Everyone -- 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Transparency can be as revolutionary as the Internet has been for the economic well-being of the world. Transparency can not only enhance the odds of the survival of this, the greatest country in the history of the world but, over time, it will contribute to our prosperity, our health, and our happiness. Wasted taxpayer dollars are not just nonproductive. Waste allowed to exist encourages more waste. Fraud allowed to exist encourages more fraud. A financially sound economy, one that works to remove waste, fraud, duplication, and incompetence, will increase respect for government, for the rule of law.
OpenTheBooks places the future of this great country more firmly in the hands of the voters. To ensure our elected officials realize this, we have to communicate continuously with them what we expect and how we will vote. I suggest we begin with one clear public statement: “I will never vote for anyone who has voted for a bill they have not read.” Register that statement at OpenTheBooks.com/READTHEBILL.
Obviously, our elected officials are unwilling to address this explosive, increasingly crucial national debt problem. Fortunately, we the taxpaying voters today have a weapon at our fingertips to successfully wage a War on Waste. Successful because our political leaders will quickly recognize that if they want to be reelected, they will have to respond accordingly.
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Whether it be in business, academia, philanthropy, or government, every activity morphs from the original goal to self-aggrandizement. In government, this process is particularly toxic. There are no profits, let alone a profit motive. No concern with productivity. No incentive to turn off the proverbial lights. No measure of success. No motivation to end counterproductive activities.\nAdd to this mix the influence of public employee unions. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman were opposed to them for reasons that long ago became apparent. The goal of all unions is self-preservation – just as management’s is to maximize profits. But public employee unions add two other noxious elements to the mix: (1) defending job incompetence and (2) heavy-handed involvement in the electoral process in a search for pliant politicians who can help them achieve their objectives by spending ever more of the public’s money.\nNow, out of the blue, the experts-for-hire have a new scheme to justify continued fiscal irresponsibility: modern monetary theory. It holds that so long as interest rates are lower than inflation rates, politicians can spend away. That is not a theory. It is idle wordplay, and the victim of such sophistry is the American taxpayer -- and future generations of American taxpayers.\nNever in our history has fiscal soundness been more important. The exploding annual deficits of the last 20 years have produced a national debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product that is as high as it was during World War II even though our nation is at peace. Moreover, many severely underfunded programs such as Social Security and Medicaid are not included in today’s debt calculations, although they should be.\nThe passage of a 5,593-page must-pass-quickly bill in December was indisputable evidence that the national debt will never be addressed from the top down. That legislation was sent to the Senate two hours before the vote. Who can read 2,800 pages per hour, 47 pages per minute? How can a responsible lawmakers vote on bills they have not read? While our political leaders have repeatedly told us how important this bill was to the survival of so many Americans, they delayed the bill for months for political reasons. A crucial-to-the-survival-of-so-many-Americans pork-filled bill? Some $10 million to Pakistan for “gender programs”? Another $700 million to Sudan for Lord knows what? And on and on and on.\nHistory has a clear and repeated message: If we do not address this exploding debt, it will bring to life all-knowing leaders, leaders who Friedrich Hayek said possessed the “fatal conceit.” They think they know more than is knowable. Leaders who have all the answers for everything they define as a problem: More regulations. More government control. More taxes. This is a noxious cure that has never succeeded, one that has left country after country in economic tatters.\nFortunately, the world in changing. Today, we have the means to address this financial irresponsibility, this threat to our country as our founders envisioned it. We are immersed in the Information Age, the Big Data world, the Cloud world, the Bitcoin world. The cost of communications is close to zero. Smartphones, iPads, and computers are a crucial part of everyday life. With the touch of a finger, one click, information on every topic is available 24 hours a day. Buy anything. Sell anything. Today, instant access to information is embedded in our culture. Why should government expenditures be exempt?\nTransparency has always been the best antidote to rein in profligate government spending. Having instant information at our fingertips gives fiscally responsible Americans a powerful new weapon in the War on Waste. Today, there is no reason why every local, state, and federal government expenditure is not online, in real-time, available to every citizen. Taxpayers should be able to attend a school board meeting and pull up school expenses on their phones.\nOpenTheBooks has a formidable weapon to unleash the voting public’s ability to address this exploding national debt, this lack of transparency, this threat to our democracy -- the OpenTheBooks Government Expenditure Library, which contains over 5 billion (and growing) local, state, and federal government expenditures. Last year, we filed 41,500 Freedom of Information Act requests. We sued several government entities to encourage them to provide us the same information we collect from other states.\nThe OpenTheBooks Government Expenditure Library is open to everyone: Citizens. Politicians. Students. Academics. Scholars. Journalists. Think tanks. Everyone -- 24-hours a day, seven days a week.\nTransparency can be as revolutionary as the Internet has been for the economic well-being of the world. Transparency can not only enhance the odds of the survival of this, the greatest country in the history of the world but, over time, it will contribute to our prosperity, our health, and our happiness. Wasted taxpayer dollars are not just nonproductive. Waste allowed to exist encourages more waste. Fraud allowed to exist encourages more fraud. A financially sound economy, one that works to remove waste, fraud, duplication, and incompetence, will increase respect for government, for the rule of law.\nOpenTheBooks places the future of this great country more firmly in the hands of the voters. To ensure our elected officials realize this, we have to communicate continuously with them what we expect and how we will vote. I suggest we begin with one clear public statement: “I will never vote for anyone who has voted for a bill they have not read.” Register that statement at OpenTheBooks.com/READTHEBILL.\nObviously, our elected officials are unwilling to address this explosive, increasingly crucial national debt problem. Fortunately, we the taxpaying voters today have a weapon at our fingertips to successfully wage a War on Waste. Successful because our political leaders will quickly recognize that if they want to be reelected, they will have to respond accordingly.",
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Philosophers have long debated whether humanity's discovery of the means to split the atom might have sown the seeds of its own destruction.
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We would picnic on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, my friends and I. Technically it wasnt allowed, but if you didnt play touch football or whip a Frisbee...
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We would picnic on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, my friends and I. Technically it wasn’t allowed, but if you didn’t play touch football or whip a Frisbee around -- if you were discreet about the blanket and food -- you could Renoir away the day on the lush, tree-shaded lawn below the East Front. There was no “security” fence; just knee-high, gray granite borders designed by the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
When I came up from Kentucky decades ago to begin my career as a Washington reporter, “security” was not a major concern at the Capitol, or pretty much anywhere else. I took an apartment at Third Street and East Capitol. I could, and sometimes practically did, roll out of bed and race over to “the Hill” to cover a congressional hearing on strip mining or some other regional issue, barging through doors like I was chasing a fire.
Working people of all kinds lined up to catch their eastbound Metrobus on Pennsylvania Avenue, right in front of the White House and in full view of the Marine guard on duty at the door of the West Wing. Members, citizens, tourists and lobbyists alike thronged the essentially unguarded halls of Congress and its campus of office buildings. Jersey barriers were still mostly in Jersey. There were no “unscalable” 7-foot-high steel fences. Metal detectors were still an annoying oddity.
This was, to be sure, a calm respite of political time in Washington: the late ’70s. It was a brief era of good feeling between the cataclysms of the 1960s and Watergate, and the rise of a more polarized, and angrier, form of politics.
My first big assignment for my paper, The Courier-Journal of Louisville, was President Carter’s first State of the Union address. It was a snowy night, quaint as a print by Currier & Ives. The fireplace in the House Press Gallery was working; the superintendent fed it logs from a pile next to his desk. Inside the House chamber it seemed – at least to me, a new kid in the city of his dreams – that America, for that night anyway, was a family, united and warmed by the carefully tended flame of democracy.
Among the many sins of Donald Trump – the needless deaths from COVID, the slashing of the fabric of government, the violence fetishized among his supporters, the cynical enabling of tyrants around the world – turning the Capitol into an armed fortress would not seem to matter much. But, symbolically -- and, in an age of symbols -- it may matter most of all. “Security” first became an issue in the 1980s, and was ramped up considerably after 9/11. But it took the twin Trump catastrophes of a pandemic and an armed insurrection by the terrorist right to shut the people out of the People’s House, and to turn the surrounding greensward it into a Green Zone.
My experience in D.C. is that the combined power of security and bureaucracy creates a remorseless logic: There can never be enough of either. Once the barriers go up, they don’t come down. Which means we’ve lost the People’s House in the living, physical, spatial, functioning sense.
What will this cost us? The first loss is aesthetic. Don’t sneer. It is important. Capitol Hill is a beautiful, ennobling place and to be robbed of seeing it – and viewing this city from it – is a great loss. Pierre L’Enfant knew what he was doing when he designed the brow of Jenkins Hill as the spot. The commanding view to the West, now along the National Mall, is one of the greatest of any capital city anywhere, which is why, in 1981, Ronald Reagan decided to become the first president to be sworn in looking west.
Those of us who go have gone in and out of it almost daily for many years may become inured to, or even contemptuous of, the gilded ornate grandeur of the place. But the architecture, much of it innovative for the time, is noble and the art on the walls – and, in the case of frescoes, in the walls – is spectacular. And endearing. The brass door of an out-of-the-way elevator I used a lot is framed by frescoes of native American flowers, plants and animals. The immigrant artist Constantino Brumidi painted them with the same care and love that Michelangelo had lavished on a famous chapel.
The second loss is in the knowledge of our own history. The Capitol is a living museum, and I am not just talking about the average age of the congressional leadership. It is literally the center of our national saga: both a place built by slave labor and the place where lawmakers argued against slavery and enacted the civil rights bills; a building nearly burned to the ground in the War of 1812; a bivouac for Union troops in the Civil War; where Lincoln urged us to find our “better angels” and FDR declared war on evil. To see and understand what is in it is to know the good and bad about where we came from and how we might find our way to what our hopes still are.
The third loss is the most obvious: political. We are already divided enough as human beings, and cynical enough about our leaders. We don’t need to be separated and isolated physically even more, but that is what is going to happen. Over the centuries there have been plenty of members of Congress – more than we would want to admit – who would rather never meet, let alone confront, a voter in the flesh, or at all. That will be easier now. Members are likely to spend even less time with each other in the building and its adjacent offices than they have been in recent decades.
You could see the very arteries of the body politic in action on the Hill when it was in session: the hallways and offices jammed with everyone from skinny schoolkids to stout farm lobbyists to Pentagon brass. Our country is built on the idea of never-ending arguments, and if we don’t have them face-to-face, we lose the connective tissue of shared culture that keeps the whole thing from flying apart. Congress is where it all meets. Or did.
The last loss is the hardest to quantify, for it is the most symbolic and even psychological. The openness of the Capitol has been a wondrously powerful message that we have sent for centuries to ourselves and to the world: that here, a faith in Constitution-based law makes us unique – and uniquely successful – in the long tale of humankind’s evolving attempts to govern itself with justice, freedom and peace. The images of violent Trump supporters ransacking the Capitol are horrendous enough. Now, and for the foreseeable future, we will all have to keep our distance as we gaze at barriers that, no matter what we say, speak loudly of what we have lost.
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I could, and sometimes practically did, roll out of bed and race over to “the Hill” to cover a congressional hearing on strip mining or some other regional issue, barging through doors like I was chasing a fire.\nWorking people of all kinds lined up to catch their eastbound Metrobus on Pennsylvania Avenue, right in front of the White House and in full view of the Marine guard on duty at the door of the West Wing. Members, citizens, tourists and lobbyists alike thronged the essentially unguarded halls of Congress and its campus of office buildings. Jersey barriers were still mostly in Jersey. There were no “unscalable” 7-foot-high steel fences. Metal detectors were still an annoying oddity.\nThis was, to be sure, a calm respite of political time in Washington: the late ’70s. It was a brief era of good feeling between the cataclysms of the 1960s and Watergate, and the rise of a more polarized, and angrier, form of politics.\nMy first big assignment for my paper, The Courier-Journal of Louisville, was President Carter’s first State of the Union address. It was a snowy night, quaint as a print by Currier & Ives. The fireplace in the House Press Gallery was working; the superintendent fed it logs from a pile next to his desk. Inside the House chamber it seemed – at least to me, a new kid in the city of his dreams – that America, for that night anyway, was a family, united and warmed by the carefully tended flame of democracy.\nAmong the many sins of Donald Trump – the needless deaths from COVID, the slashing of the fabric of government, the violence fetishized among his supporters, the cynical enabling of tyrants around the world – turning the Capitol into an armed fortress would not seem to matter much. But, symbolically -- and, in an age of symbols -- it may matter most of all. “Security” first became an issue in the 1980s, and was ramped up considerably after 9/11. But it took the twin Trump catastrophes of a pandemic and an armed insurrection by the terrorist right to shut the people out of the People’s House, and to turn the surrounding greensward it into a Green Zone.\nMy experience in D.C. is that the combined power of security and bureaucracy creates a remorseless logic: There can never be enough of either. Once the barriers go up, they don’t come down. Which means we’ve lost the People’s House in the living, physical, spatial, functioning sense.\nWhat will this cost us? The first loss is aesthetic. Don’t sneer. It is important. Capitol Hill is a beautiful, ennobling place and to be robbed of seeing it – and viewing this city from it – is a great loss. Pierre L’Enfant knew what he was doing when he designed the brow of Jenkins Hill as the spot. The commanding view to the West, now along the National Mall, is one of the greatest of any capital city anywhere, which is why, in 1981, Ronald Reagan decided to become the first president to be sworn in looking west.\nThose of us who go have gone in and out of it almost daily for many years may become inured to, or even contemptuous of, the gilded ornate grandeur of the place. But the architecture, much of it innovative for the time, is noble and the art on the walls – and, in the case of frescoes, in the walls – is spectacular. And endearing. The brass door of an out-of-the-way elevator I used a lot is framed by frescoes of native American flowers, plants and animals. The immigrant artist Constantino Brumidi painted them with the same care and love that Michelangelo had lavished on a famous chapel.\nThe second loss is in the knowledge of our own history. The Capitol is a living museum, and I am not just talking about the average age of the congressional leadership. It is literally the center of our national saga: both a place built by slave labor and the place where lawmakers argued against slavery and enacted the civil rights bills; a building nearly burned to the ground in the War of 1812; a bivouac for Union troops in the Civil War; where Lincoln urged us to find our “better angels” and FDR declared war on evil. To see and understand what is in it is to know the good and bad about where we came from and how we might find our way to what our hopes still are.\nThe third loss is the most obvious: political. We are already divided enough as human beings, and cynical enough about our leaders. We don’t need to be separated and isolated physically even more, but that is what is going to happen. Over the centuries there have been plenty of members of Congress – more than we would want to admit – who would rather never meet, let alone confront, a voter in the flesh, or at all. That will be easier now. Members are likely to spend even less time with each other in the building and its adjacent offices than they have been in recent decades.\nYou could see the very arteries of the body politic in action on the Hill when it was in session: the hallways and offices jammed with everyone from skinny schoolkids to stout farm lobbyists to Pentagon brass. Our country is built on the idea of never-ending arguments, and if we don’t have them face-to-face, we lose the connective tissue of shared culture that keeps the whole thing from flying apart. Congress is where it all meets. Or did.\nThe last loss is the hardest to quantify, for it is the most symbolic and even psychological. The openness of the Capitol has been a wondrously powerful message that we have sent for centuries to ourselves and to the world: that here, a faith in Constitution-based law makes us unique – and uniquely successful – in the long tale of humankind’s evolving attempts to govern itself with justice, freedom and peace. The images of violent Trump supporters ransacking the Capitol are horrendous enough. Now, and for the foreseeable future, we will all have to keep our distance as we gaze at barriers that, no matter what we say, speak loudly of what we have lost.",
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The Media Are Lying About the 1776 Report | RealClearPolitics
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President Trump created the 1776 Commission by executive order last year as part of an effort to counter the leftist narrative taking over our public schools. Unsurprisingly, the commission’s first report has been met with nothing but hostility.
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Did the Coronavirus Espape From a Lab? | RealClearPolitics
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For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?
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28 Times Media and Dems Excused Liberal Violence | RealClearPolitics
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After excusing and ignoring riots from leftists, Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn riots now that the turmoil has shifted.
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Chuck Yeager Makes His Last Flight | RealClearPolitics
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Last Dec. 7, the greatest aviator in American history ascended into the heavens. On Friday, joined by my family on Air Force Two, it will be my honor to accompany the widow and earthly remains of retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, America's pilot, on his last flight.
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WASHINGTON -- "So, we spent a whole election on my side of the fence talking about, 'We got to fight socialism.' And now you're going to throw a half-trillion dollars" with "absolutely no targeting" for earners hurt economically by the coronavirus?
That's Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., talking about President Donald Trump's call for Congress to increase COVID-19 relief checks for individuals from $600 to $2,000.
"I'm the guy who campaigned for the president, contributed to the president and voted for the president," Amodei offered during a wide-ranging hour-long phone conversation Wednesday. The only Republican in Nevada's congressional delegation, Amodei stressed that he wanted Trump to serve four more years.
But that doesn't mean Amodei has to vote in lockstep with Trump. As Amodei said in a statement released after he voted on Monday against $2,000 "helicopter checks," the Treasury doesn't have the money. The measure didn't target workers hurt economically by the pandemic; it instead targets those who earn up to $75,000. He would prefer to see funds disbursed to help stressed-out health care providers.
For the past four years, House Republicans have groveled readily every time Trump engaged in an attention-grabbing stunt. In this case, the stunt was a demand for $2,000 checks -- after Trump's own team had negotiated a deal with $600 stimulus checks and the COVID-19 bill had reached his desk. Indeed, Trump is demanding the larger haul even though he signed the bill.
But this time, Trump's antics are not working so well. Sure, 44 House Republicans voted with House Dems for the bigger checks. But 130 GOP members voted no.
Amodei told me the White House didn't lobby for his support on the bill, and GOP leaders didn't whip support for the measure. The cookie is crumbling.
Another reason I call it a stunt: It likely won't go anywhere. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put three Trump asks in one bill -- $2,000 checks, repealing protections for tech companies like Facebook or Twitter under Section 230 of a communications law and establishing an election integrity panel -- that should ensure the package won't make it to the president's desk.
Stunt No. 2: Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act because it did not include a repeal of Section 230, which shields tech platforms from legal liability.
Amodei has a history of supporting Trump in general but still saying things your standard MAGA bootlicker would not say. So while it is not extraordinary that the Carson City Republican voted to override Trump's veto of the defense spending bill, it is a big deal that 108 House Republicans joined him.
"The Section 230 stuff, I completely agree with the president," Amodei said -- but its repeal has no place in a defense bill.
Did Trump win the 2020 election?
"No, he lost Nevada," Amodei responded. And the Trump legal team repeatedly has lost as it appealed states' decisions in court.
Amodei feels for Vice President Mike Pence, who, on Jan. 6, will have to do what then-Vice President Al Gore did in 2001 after George W. Bush won the White House, and what then-Vice President Joe Biden did in 2017 when progressive Democrats challenged Trump's victory as the fruit of Russian interference.
Amodei resented Democrats whose "resist" movement tried to de-legitimize Trump's 2016 victory for four years. So he offered, "I'm not going to turn around and become what I was so offended by."
Smart and principled.
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Republicans Still Have Not Learned Their Lesson
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Five Books That Explain the World | RealClearPolitics
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Every time I set out to visit a country in the NATO alliance when I was Supreme Allied Commander, I’d try to read a book that could help me understand the history, culture and zeitgeist of the place. It could be a novel by a native writer, a history or a work of historical fiction. Can you really understand France without reading Camus and Sartre? To comprehend Russia, including the mindset of Vladimir Putin, I’ve found more illumination in Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and above all Gogol than in most CIA reports, with all due respect to the agency.
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Biden's Stimulus Plan Will Harm Those Who Need Most Help | RealClearPolitics
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If you thought help for the coronavirus was on the way, think again. President-elect Joe Biden's plan to provide economic relief is going to cause a lot of pain and waste a lot of money on people who do not need it.
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We’re Past the Point Where Impeachment Fixes This | RealClearPolitics
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We are six days out from President Donald Trump either purposefully or inadvertently inspiring a mob of insurrectionists to invade the seat of government. We have watched video upon video of the violent attacks and deaths.
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What Madison Cawthorn Saw at the Insurrection | RealClearPolitics
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What Madison Cawthorn Saw at the Insurrection
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Social Media Platforms Must Permanently Ban Trump | RealClearPolitics
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Americans Must Hang On Just Two More Weeks | RealClearPolitics
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Americans Must Hang On Just Two More Weeks
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I'm no big fan of AOC. Some of her ideas aren't bad, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez burdens the progressive cause by waving the socialist label like it's...
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I'm no big fan of AOC. Some of her ideas aren't bad, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez burdens the progressive cause by waving the socialist label like it's some kind of fashion brand. That has enabled Republicans to make her the face of the Democratic Party in a country where the S-word can scare off even moderates.
At least AOC believes in the democracy. We just witnessed the spectacle of Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert suing Vice President Mike Pence to force him to overturn Electoral College results that will deliver a decisive victory to Joe Biden. When the Texas judge, a Donald Trump appointee, brushed the suit off, Gohmert urged people to "go to the streets" and be "violent."
That is insane and also treasonous. Democrats do say irresponsible things at times, but imagine the outcry if they were to tell followers to become "violent."
Gohmert exults in saying moronic things. He's held that the Democrats' health care policies would sentence elderly Americans to death. After coming down with COVID, he publicly mused, "If I hadn't been wearing a mask so much ... I really wonder if I would've gotten it."
Why does he do this? Getting attention and extracting money from the rubes would be high on the list. But that doesn't matter.
The more important question is, why didn't Democrats nationalize their recent campaigns to feature his creepy rhetoric? Did they think he was too much of a lone crackpot to pull that off?
Well, he wasn't alone. The right wing now has its fringe "squad." Next to Gohmert stands Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. She traffics in QAnon conspiracy theory, calling it "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out." Lunacy, yes, but she's now a member of Congress.
Lauren Boebert, a QAnon fan from western Colorado just elected to the House, told local TV, "I'm absolutely running against her," her being AOC. During the primary, she tied the incumbent, Republican Rep. Scott Tipton, to "AOC and her squad." Never mind that Tipton had been one of Trump's most fawning supporters -- and that AOC's New York congressional district is 2,000 miles and two time zones from Boebert's.
Add to this group Sen. Josh Hawley, the senator from Missouri who, for all his aw-shucks playing of the Trump cult, is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. He is, in some way, the most objectionable squad member because he obviously knows better.
If Hawley thinks he's going to sail into the 2024 Republican nomination for president by ingratiating himself with Trump World, he's probably in for a surprise. First off, Trump doesn't share. Secondly, Hawley lacks Trump's charisma. Thirdly, there's the example of Scott Tipton: There will always be someone to grovel more abjectly at the feet of DJT. But there's also the strong possibility that once Trump is out of office, his importance will fade but not the memory of Hawley's contempt for American institutions and his sheer lack of honor.
It should also become apparent that Ocasio-Cortez isn't running the Democratic Party. She's already raising money through emails that accuse Democrats of not caring about the climate crisis, mainly because her Green New Deal doesn't have them jumping to attention.
The incoming Biden administration, whose climate plan is extremely ambitious, is clearly not taking orders from AOC. The hope is that she will use her considerable talents to help her party retain power. That means letting it be pragmatically progressive and dropping the S-word.
In the meantime, why don't Democrats start showcasing ghoulish Republicans in their ads from Miami to Seattle? C'mon, Democrats, show more fight.
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The Policies That Legitimize White Rage | RealClearPolitics
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The Policies That Legitimize White Rage
African American studies scholar Carol Anderson on the policies that legitimize white rage.
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Congress Must Restore Trust in U.S. Election Process | RealClearPolitics
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After the despicable acts of violence in our Capitol building, it is hard to imagine a worse moment to undermine hopes for political stability in our nation. Democrats, big tech and the media are doing exactly that, however, despite president-elect Biden's call for unity. They are tarring the 74 million Americans who cast votes for Donald Trump as insurrectionists and silencing legitimate dissent. They are also pretending that Republicans who want to repair our broken election system incited the unforgivable violence in the people's house on January 6th.
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