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How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
The book is How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. It is not a very long book but packs a lot of information into the 231 pages of text. It is very readable book. There is a fairly long section of endnotes for those interested in further reading or in checking things mentioned…
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President Trump fails us
President Trump has failed us in many ways. A few days ago I talked about his months of magical thinking on the CODID-19. He has failed here in many ways and that has resulted in a great loss of life and massive economic problems. Previous Presidents have deal with potential epidemics and succeeded in averting…
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Months of Magical Thinking
After President Trump’s months of magical thinking on the COVID-19 crisis he appeared to be taking this pandemic seriously. However that did not last long and we are back to the magical thinking response. In addition, of course, there are efforts to revise the history of his failures. NPR has reported on the actual timeline.…
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Bend the curve up
After President Trump’s initial failure to respond adequately to the COVID-19 crisis he appeared to be taking this pandemic seriously. The White House seemed to support guidelines that would “flatten the curve”. That is although the number of cases and deaths was increasing as the virus spread, we would implement social distancing methods to slow…
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Kentucky GOP limits voting
It seems the GOP is again trying to suppress votes. The Republicans of the Kentucky legislature passed a bill to impose stricter voter identification requirements across the state. The governor vetoed the bill and then the Republican legislature overrode that veto. The law will be in effect for the general election in November. In this…
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Wisconsin courage
I wrote last week about the efforts of the Republican legislature to suppress votes in the Wisconsin elections by making voter risk sickness and death by voting. They succeeded in suppressing the vote. But thanks to the courage of many Wisconsin voters who risked their health and stood in long lines to vote, the Republicans…
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Wisconsin: American democracy dies a bit more
What is the lesson of the Wisconsin primary and Republican actions? Here is how the Guardian opens their article about this: Less than 72 hours before polls opened in Wisconsin on 7 April, the state legislature convened to weigh an emergency request from the governor, Tony Evers. With Covid-19 cases in the thousands, Evers implored…
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Inspector General Michael Atkinson and President Trump’s threefer
A few days ago President Trump fired the intelligence community’s Inspector General (IG) Michael Atkinson who alerted Congress a whistle-blower complainant regarding Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president that led to his impeachment. He was following the law that required this action.
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An Inspector General threefer
I was reading about President Trump’s latest firing of an Inspector General (IG) when part of the article seemed especially odd. It caught my eye as this firing may be part of a pattern. A few days ago he fired the IG of the intelligence community. See President Trump’s revenge and continuing attack on intelligence.…
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President Trump’s revenge and continuing attack on intelligence
President Trump has fired the intelligence community’s Inspector General Michael Atkinson who was the first alerted Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint regarding Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president that led to his impeachment. President Trump fired the acting director of national intelligence, removed several other who testified in the impeachment hearings and is…
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