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Affirmative action isn’t bias. It’s politics that rightwing justices don’t like and will strike down
That’s what we should focus on.
John Stoehr
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Biden’s first midterm in 2022 is just like Reagan’s in 1982
Set aside the trees to look at the forest.
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Will the midterms end the age of gothic politics?
The possibility of nothing changing.
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The polls are wrong. Put in the work. Hope we get lucky.
Nothing else matters.
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GOP to white midterm voters: we’ll save you the effort of competing with people who are putting in twice the effort.
What the Times’ value-free vernacular tells us.
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A radical third of the country dictates the terms of democracy
It is entitled to use political violence.
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The Republican’s danse macabre
Yes, even if they suffer, too. It’s frivolous and terrifying.
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In ‘correcting’ GOP metaphors, liberals reveal their denial
Democrats and liberals just have to keep on keeping on even when, or especially when, keeping on keeping on is exhausting.
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There’s no reason to freak out
Monday’s polling just tells us there’s work to do.
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Drop the idea that ‘no one is above the law’
It does more harm than good.
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‘Anti-woke’ critics are not defending free speech. They're defending the status quo from ordinary, democratic politics
The true choice has always been the politics of reform or the politics of the status quo. Both, however, are products of democracy.
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Democracy isn’t the only thing on the ballot. So are criminals
Replacing a democratic rule of law with a fascist one.