Tag: Legacy
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Ballot Emergency?
The emergency appears to be that too many people might vote in a way the leader does not like.
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Trump Confession
A government that funds its friends and defunds its opponents is using public money as an instrument of loyalty.
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Trump Foreign Election Fund
Where the United States used to try to export the ideals of democracy, now it has put right wing influence on a grant schedule.
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Trump Sells Wall Street Faster Access
The president is selling a subscription service to milliseconds of access.
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Trump Sowing Vote Doubt
It’s easy to see what appears to be the aim of the speech. Leaders in autocracies like Hungary and Venezuela spread doubt about elections they feared losing, then cited that doubt to reject the results. Our midterm elections are coming up in November. The doubt is being sown now.
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Trump Blacklist
On his first day in office, the president signed an order that purported to end federal censorship. A government blacklist now punishes journalists for telling the truth.
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First Amendment Holds?
For now, the First Amendment held. But states are falling all over themselves to out-MAGA each other and others have passed similar laws. One wonders for how long it can be withstood.
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