She’s all that
I especially like the note of reconciliation in her presence on the ticket: she criticized Biden sharply at the first Democratic debate; Biden asked her to run with him; she said yes. As the song says, Let’s work together.
Trump* interviewed
Aaron Rupar has a Twitter thread collecting choice moments from Donald Trump*’s interview with Harris Faulkner (Fox News).
Rant? Tirade? Harangue?
You decide. It’s Donald Trump*’s conference call with governors.
A president speaks
“If we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both.”
Minneapolis and Denmark
A friend in the city and lines from Hamlet.
“Vote as if your life depends on it”
Tony Schwartz, Donald Trump*’s ghostwriter: “Understanding what we’re truly up against — the reign of terror that Trump will almost surely wage the moment he believes he can completely prevail — makes the upcoming presidential election a true Armageddon. “Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does.”
Turtles all the way down
The paranoid style in American politics is never at a loss for explanations: another layer of theorizing can always be added to support a rickety conspiracy theory. It’s turtles, or theories, all the way down.
Trump*’s two plans
David Frum: “Both Trump’s Plan A and Plan B intend to turn American against American, in an ugly spirit of rancor and resentment.”
Allegory redux
Why I will vote for Joe Biden.
“You must persist”
From an e-mail Elizabeth Warren sent this morning to donors, announcing the suspension of her campaign for the presidency.
No evens to can’t
Lindsey Graham encourages Donald Trump to refrain from personal attacks and to “aim higher.”
“Political Teamsmanship”
A dispiriting story from WGBH’s Innovation Hub.
The situation
“I can tell you, knowing the president for a good 25 or 30 years, that he would love to have the situation that Viktor Orbán has, but he doesn’t.”
George Conway on fiduciary obligations
“Fiduciaries are people who hold legal obligations of trust, like a trustee of a trust. A trustee must act in the beneficiary’s best interests and not his own. If the trustee fails to do that, the trustee can be removed, even if what the trustee has done is not a crime. So too with a president.”