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Trump staged photo op at destroyed camera shop after owner refused to participate

Tom Gram bought the business eight years ago though he does not own the building, which was destroyed by fire during recent protests. The owner of a camera shop that was destroyed in Kenosha and highlighted during Donald Trump’s visit on Tuesday, September 1, said the president used his store for political gain by appearing with a former owner of the business – as Joe Biden announced he and his wife Jill will visit the Wisconsin city on Thursday. Tom Gram said he bought the Rode’s Camera Shop business from the Rode family eight years ago, though John Rode...

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Police and Militia tactics in Kenosha reflect an authoritarian prelude to a modern Civil War

The chaos and violence that are unfolding in Kenosha looks like the beginning of a civil war. I feel as though I am watching some natural disaster develop, suddenly overpowering any hope for social change “before it’s too late.” Is it already too late—that is to say, too late to disarm our concept of social order and, for God’s sake, safety? The American problem of guns is not only that there are so many of them, vastly more than there are people; and that they are deemed, by so many Americans, necessary for survival and empowerment, commanding a reverence...

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A sudden preoccupation with the suburbs to make White people afraid for the wrong reasons

Dear Suburban White People in America, Donald Trump is right: you should be very afraid – just not of the people he tells you to fear. I know this year has been relentless in its terrors and challenges, and in your exhausted state it may be difficult to think clearly but I want to try because it is important. I want you to step back and consider the message he has been sending to you in his press conferences and via overnight tweet storms and through his bottom-feeding surrogates and in his dollar store stormtrooper deployments—and especially with his...

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The Republic for which it stands: What will being an American mean without Democracy?

Long before Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land, many scholars shared their fear that American democracy was in jeopardy. Since the 2016 election, it has become clear that the system envisioned by the Founding Fathers is ending. Farhad Manjoo warned about this in his recent New York Times column, I’m Doomsday Prepping for the End of Democracy. Manjoo pointed to political violence on the streets, the pandemic, unemployment, racial polarization, and natural disasters, all of which are destabilizing the country, and noted that Republicans appear to have abandoned democracy in favor of a cult-like...

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Wisconsin veterans and leaders condemn Trump over reports he disparaged fallen soldiers

Advocacy organizations representing millions of veterans across the United States voiced disgust and outrage on September 3 in response to reports from multiple news outlets detailing how President Donald Trump has repeatedly disparaged American soldiers killed or wounded in war as “suckers” and “losers” in private while publicly presenting himself as the unrivaled champion of the nation’s service members. The Atlantic, citing anonymous sources with direct knowledge of the president’s comments, reported that Trump in 2018 canceled a scheduled visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris “because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and...

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Fact checking a garden of lies: Trump uses a wounded Kenosha to fertilize his seeds of fear

“If I didn’t INSIST on having the National Guard activate and go into Kenosha, Wisconsin, there would be no Kenosha right now. Also, there would have been great death and injury. I want to thank Law Enforcement and the National Guard. I will see you on Tuesday!” – Trump Tweeted on August 31 President Donald Trump charged into the latest eruption in the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice on Tuesday, September 1, blaming “domestic terror” that he said fueled the violence in Kenosha and falsely declared it was enabled by Democratic leaders. While Trump asserted that the violence was...

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