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

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

Posted by | Sep 8, 2020 |

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

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

Posted by | Sep 5, 2020 |

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

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

Posted by | Sep 2, 2020 |

“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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A “Law and Order” president defends a racially motivated White vigilante charged with murder

A “Law and Order” president defends a racially motivated White vigilante charged with murder

Posted by | Sep 2, 2020 |

President Donald Trump defended the actions of a 17-year-old vigilante and Trump supporter who was charged with murder last week after killing two people and injuring another with a military-style semi-automatic rifle in Kenosha during demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Asked during a press briefing on August 31 whether he would condemn the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, who has been enthusiastically embraced by the right-wing media after criticizing Democratic nominee Joe Biden for offering a purportedly insufficient denunciation of violence, Trump said “that was an interesting situation” and proceeded to suggest Rittenhouse’s shooting of three people...

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There are no Blue Lives: Being opposed to police brutality is not an attack on law enforcement

There are no Blue Lives: Being opposed to police brutality is not an attack on law enforcement

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 |

Support for peaceful protestors means being “against the police.” That is the lie I hear every single day in Trump’s America. It is a myth perpetuated by this President and his party and by people like them: white people who don’t want to address the systemic racism embedded in law enforcement or the persistent brutality against people of color on display—and who attempt to push people to the very opposite of poles in order to avoid talking about it: “Choose Black Lives or Blue Lives,” they say. “Those are the options.” This choice is not only unnecessary, it is...

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“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver draws a straight line from Trump’s racist rhetoric to Kenosha

“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver draws a straight line from Trump’s racist rhetoric to Kenosha

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 |

The “Last Week Tonight” host tears apart the Republican national convention’s triumphant vision of America after the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. John Oliver returned to the white void of a socially distant Last Week Tonight to address “one hell of a week”, in which the Republican national convention projected a triumphant distortion of America disjointed from the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which resulted in a week of protests, a wildcat strike by NBA and WNBA players, and the alleged killing of two protesters by a 17-year-old white vigilante. But first, the convention, whose...

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