This whole article is amazing, but especially this statistic. When Obama was in office, only 30% of white evangelicals would forgive a president's immoral behavior. Now it's 72%. https://t.co/c6FlHbziMi pic.twitter.com/VTNov7TJRk — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) September 14, 2017 I liked this description of Republican voters: malleable to the point of innocence, and self-reported expressions of ideological …
David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
There’s a party in my mind
I call bullshit: Now more than at any point in its modern history, the party has reached such a breaking point that historians, political analysts and Republicans themselves say it faces the possibility of splintering and spawning a third party. Republicans are, by nature, order-takers. They took orders from Reagan, they took orders from Bush …
Slap you on the back and say “please, please”
David Von Drehle has written the most idiotic centrist hot take in the history of idiotic centrist hot takes. Some highlights: Wanna-be Nazis parading by torchlight through Charlottesville was a radical moment. Masked leftists marauding through Berkeley was another radical moment. Radical politics are the most dangerous kind, whether they arise from the right or …
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The martyrdom of St. Googlebro
Bobo says the Google CEO should resign for firing Googlebro because science: When it comes to the genetic differences between male and female brains, I’d say the mainstream view is that male and female abilities are the same across the vast majority of domains — I.Q., the ability to do math, etc. But there are …
He can’t be wounded ’cause he’s got no heart
I have a question about the Bobo column that Tom eviscerated: what’s the purpose of saying there’s nothing there this early in the investigation? There’s no way to guess what exactly Mueller will turn up. All I can think is that Bobo is helping to lay down justification for eventually firing Mueller. I also wonder …
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David Brooks Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
One sentence from today’s column that captures the pure, distilled essence of the alt-hack that is our BoBo: And yet it has to be confessed that, at least so far, the Whitewater scandal was far more substantive than the Russia-collusion scandal now gripping Washington. It’s all there. The disembodied passive voice to give pulled-from-the-ass opinion …
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Oh, Yay, We’re Gonna Relitigate Watergate Now
Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now: https://t.co/9NCmordowo — Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 14, 2017 Thing is, Nixon didn't need Watergate to win. But Trump needed Russians & Comey to squeak out electoral college win https://t.co/cn4QLCEH4f — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 15, 2017 Sensible people understand that Gerald Ford pardoning …
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