Tag: campaign 2024
Nikki Haley’s Ongoing Tenuous Grasp on American History
“We’ve never been a racist country.”
— Nikki Haley, on Fox News.
Biden Changing Up Approach to Speaking About Trump
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Brian Beutler: “Much of the speech’s success—what makes it stand out from Biden’s earlier comments—is that he’s shaken off the dated political tic of speaking obliquely or in code or by implication about his opponent. On Friday, instead of naming Donald Trump zero times, he referred to him 44 times by name. … This kind of literalism isn’t just cathartic, it’s how the processes of forgetting and desensitization can be arrested and reversed.”
Trump Announces His Second-Term Cabinet of Deplorables: Tucker, Bannon, Stephen Miller and Others
Axios.com:”Former President Trump, if elected, would build a Cabinet and White House staff based mainly on two imperatives: pre-vetted loyalty to him and a commitment to stretch legal and governance boundaries, sources who talk often with the leading GOP presidential candidate tell Axios.”
Trump and his prospective top officials don’t mince words about their plans:
- They want to target and jail critics, including government officials and journalists; deport undocumented immigrants or put them in detainment camps, and unleash the military to target drug cartels in Mexico, or possibly crack down on criminals or protesters at home.
- They want to scrap rules that limit their ability to purge government workers deemed disloyal.