It'll be worse than this, especially in US, but this is the right way to think. We are inside a historical conjuncture where things can go right or very, very wrong.
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In my view, congressmen who deny aid to the Ukrainians should at least have the decency to stay the hell away from Normandy.

.Sarah Longwell: “It's not that voters will vote just on abortion. It's that abortion is the entry point for them to understand how extreme a candidate is.”

'We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent...The strength of America’s allies is vital to the United States.'
-- Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984
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'D-Day vividly brings home the utter and dishonorable failure of the America First movement that was so powerful in American politics before we joined World War II...Today's America First Republicans are following the path their predecessors took.'
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Congressional Republicans will be at the D-Day ceremonies on June 6. Fine. But they should learn the lessons of D-Day, of World War II and subsequent history. Ronald Reagan spelled out much of this on D-Day 40 years ago.

Current lesson: Arm Ukraine. Now. thebulwark.com/p/republicans-…

Interesting that Rand would be accepting funding for a senior chair from the Stand Together Fund. This Fund is decidedly NATO skeptic and has been calling for a US turn away from Europe.

'When you hear United States officials saying those [pro-Russia] things, what does it sound like to your ear?'

'I can't believe my ears. I grew up in a world where America was a formidable force.'

RDI Chairman Garry Kasparov on the explosion of Russian propaganda in US politics:

This week, Governor Youngkin refused to sign a bill to protect access to contraception. Instead, he gutted the bill’s protections for IUDs, birth control, and emergency contraceptives.

As the next Governor of Virginia, I will defend the right to contraception for all Virginians.

It’s quite something to see the French shaming the US for cowardice these days. Quite something—and more than deserved.

'Much like pro-Castro leftists of yore,' says Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱, 'today's pro-Putin rightists are fundamentally anti-American.' Yes. For the last several years, I have felt hit over the head by a horseshoe. theunpopulist.net/p/the-right-ca…

'If you ask most elected Republicans on Capitol Hill, they will insist the events of Jan. 6, 2021 and the baseless conspiracies about a stolen election are old news, not on anyone’s minds, the Republican party is moving on. None of that is true.' thebulwark.com/p/a-night-at-t…

Put me in a home bc today's The Bulwark pod has two gents who are too young to remember the OJ chase:

Isaac Arnsdorf on his book about the MAGA grassroots, & Trump's 'plan' for UKR. + Joe Perticone on his visit to the DC Jail & the House FISA shitshow.

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'Republicans controlled all three branches of government [in AZ] and the result was that they limited Americans’ freedom and thwarted the public will. But Republican extremism and authoritarianism comes with a side dish of Republican chaos and disarray.'
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A strong case for supporting Ukraine from freshman Republican congressman Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.). Very much worth reading. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

'Arizona is the model of Republican governance in the post-Dobbs age...Today’s GOP has pulled off the impressive trick of managing to be both dangerous and dysfunctional, cruel and chaotic.

This would be a good lesson to teach by Nov. 5, 2024.'
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I very much enjoyed this conversation with ⁦Corey Nathan⁩, which ranged from the Mets to political polarization to authoritarian challenges to liberal democracy. It even left me feeling a bit hopeful… politicsandreligion.us/e/billkristol/

TL; DR: The claims about non-citizens voting are false. open.substack.com/pub/theunpopul…

Join me for a conversation with Bill Kristol - it's a #2024Election update as we discuss preserving democracy, voter trends, the #RNC , and much more!

We're on Spreaker and everywhere you listen to podcasts - tune in now!

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“Included in Biden’s American Rescue Plan was a child tax credit…Republicans hated it. So they let it expire in 2023. Biden has worked to get a new child tax credit in place. Today it looks like Senate Republicans are going to kill it.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…