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Choice bits from Jack Smith’s filing
Choice bits from Jack Smith’s filing
I find some of the details of Mike Pence’s efforts to persuade Donald Trump to accept an election loss bizarre and illuminating. These moments make me think of a parent trying to soothe an angry, tantrum-prone toddler.
#autocracy#democracy#fascism#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Choice bits from Jack Smith’s filing
“Red flags for scholars of fascism”
“Red flags for scholars of fascism”
Heather Cox Richardson: “Trump has always invented his stories from whole cloth, but there used to be some way to tie them to reality. Today that seemed to be gone. He was in a fantasy world, and his rhetoric was apocalyptic. It was also bloody in ways that raise huge red flags for scholars of fascism.”
#autocracy#democracy#politics#truth#fascism
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“Red flags for scholars of fascism”
Someone wrote a letter
Someone wrote a letter
In the second episode of the Shrinking Trump podcast, someone suggests that this passage from a May 15 interview with Hugh Hewitt should be shared widely as evidence that Donald Trump cannot formulate ideas cognitively.
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Someone wrote a letter
How to convict
How to convict
If I were to read one item today about last night’s indictment, it’d be this one, by Norman Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Joyce Vance: “How to Convict Trump.”
#democracy#law#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
How to convict
Another country
Another country
In the latest installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson asks a pointed question: The Supreme Court, Congress, and the Tennessee statehouse. What would you say if you saw today’s news coming from another country?
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Another country
The January 6 report
The January 6 report
The Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is available from the committee’s website.
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
The January 6 report
Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
From The Washington Post: “Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China, according to people familiar with the matter.”
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
The U.S. and the Holocaust
The U.S. and the Holocaust
I wonder if anyone ever imagined that this documentary series would begin airing four days after a governor lured refugees onto buses with promises of employment and housing, and one day after a crowd raised their right arms to the defeated former president in an index-finger salute. We dismiss such cruelty and madness at our peril.
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Yesterday’s HCR
Yesterday’s HCR
Heather Cox Richardson’s September 6 installament of Letters from an American is especially helpful if you weren’t following the news yesterday.
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Yesterday’s HCR
Joe Biden tonight
Joe Biden tonight
“History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. For a long time we told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it’s not. We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us. That’s why tonight I’m asking our nation to come together: unite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy regardless of your ideology.”
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Joe Biden tonight
Attachment F
Attachment F
Attachment F follows Attachment E, a certification from a lawyer for the defeated former president swearing or affirming that “a diligent search” of boxes of materials removed from the White House took place and that “any and all responsive documents” accompany the certification. And then, as Steve Jobs liked to say, one more thing — just a sample of what the FBI found.
#democracy#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Attachment F