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“Kavanaugh is unpopular, but he does not belong to a disfavored group. He is not disadvantaged by class or burdened with the weight of caste. He has lived a life of wealth and privilege, moving in and between elite spaces with little apparent friction.”
“Trumpism' is a politics of racial demagoguery.”
“In states where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into nearly impenetrable legislative majorities, they have also taken steps to try to close the paths the broad public might use to see its views honored in government.”
“An honest examination of democratic decline would look at the ways in which our counter-majoritarian institutions are thwarting the public will - as expressed through its elected representatives - and how that can create support for truly destabilizing forces.”
“As a comedian and talk show host, Jon Stewart has been pretty funny. But as a pundit and player in our politics, he's been a problem.”
“Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is notorious for his efforts to secure 'election integrity' through voter purges and other efforts to shrink the electorate, including strict voter-identification requirements for registration.”
“The truth is that regimes of corrupt, personalist rule - in which authoritarians wield the state to reward friends, punish enemies and secure their fortunes - are much less prosperous than the alternative.”
“There is no way in which the Democratic Party constitutes a threat to capitalism. At most, the party's program of regulation, redistribution and higher taxes may shrink, ever so slightly, the profit rate for some of the nation's wealthiest shareholders.”
“The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history.”
“For a generation, Biden was at the front of a national push for tough drug laws and police militarization.”
“One thing that I try not to do is take pictures of homeless people or visibly low-income people - not because those folks aren't deserving of photos, but I think they're deserving of photos that show their full humanity.”
“One of the most powerful crosscurrents to illiberalism in American life is a broad-minded and democratic egalitarianism.”
“Everything that made Trump a bad president the first time around promises to make him an even worse one in a second term. When I say 'bad' here, I don't mean the content of Trump's agenda, as objectionable as it is, as much as I do his ability to handle the job of chief executive of the United States.”
“Yes, Atticus Finch is a literary creation, but he stands for something real and enduring.”
“Stoking white fear and resentment works well enough to energize a powerful electoral coalition and secure critical victories, and unless Democrats can push back effectively, they may find themselves losing to Trump for a second time come November 2020.”
“Donald Trump is often derided as a man of impulse and ego without conviction or belief. This is true on most questions of politics and policy. But on questions of identity, Trump is an ideologue.”
“The Trump campaign's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants, along with many American citizens, is a promise to plunge the country into an authoritarian nightmare. It is also a promise of strife and pervasive civil conflict.”
“After embracing the Republican congressional agenda, Trump can't run on building infrastructure and protecting retirement programs. But he still has racism.”
“The Republican voters who made opposition to Roe a litmus test for Republican politicians and the Republican politicians who made opposition to Roe a litmus test for Republican-appointed federal judges were sincere about their desire to pare back reproductive rights and end legal abortion altogether.”
“Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of less hostile climates. The inescapable message to transgender young people from the attack on gender-affirming care is that you do not belong.”