One of the themes of this year’s communications from the DDems is to expose Brian Fitzpatrick for how he is NOT the independent voice he claims to be.
The Good Old Days Were Only Good for Good Ol' Boys
Excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American, Dec. 17th, 2023
Autocrats like Orbán and Putin—and budding autocrats like Trump—are building a global movement by fighting back against the expansion of rights to women, minorities, and LGBTQ+ people.
Russian leaders have been cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights for a decade with the help of the Russian Orthodox Church, claiming that they are protecting “traditional values.” This vision of heteronormativity rewrites the real history of human sexuality, but it is powerful in this moment. Orbán insists that immigrants ruin the purity of a country, and has undermined women’s rights.
Riccardi-Swartz explains that this rhetoric appeals to those in far-right movements around the world. Those people defined as anti-family—LGBTQ+ people and women who challenged patriarchy—seemed to be undermining society. Now, as dictators like Putin and Orbán promise to take away LGBTQ+ rights, hurt immigrants, and return power to white men, they seem to many to be protecting traditional society.
Who wants any part of that?
Mad Poll Disease Redux - by Michael Podhorzer
In his newsletter, of 05 November, MICHAEL PODHORZER, says:
Don’t panic about new horse race polling: Americans know the difference between answering a survey and casting a ballot, even if the media doesn't.
He talks about the alarm being spread by the mainstream media’s reporting that Donald Trump leads President Biden in key battleground states and casts some shade, questioning the credibility:
…the Times reports that support for Trump among “non-white, under 45” voters increased from 29 percent to 42 percent. I’m pretty sure if there were actually another nearly 3 million such Trump supporters, we’d see evidence of it beyond this survey.
In other words, the mainstream media doesn’t show sufficient scientific skepticism of their own koolade, I mean reporting.
How does he explain these poll numbers?
As I explained in April in “Don’t Panic About Biden’s Approval Ratings,” for three-quarters of the last 20 years, presidential approval has been underwater. When people take polls, they consistently vent their frustrations with their choices. But when they cast their ballots, they’ve shown themselves to be better aware of the consequences of choosing MAGA – which is why MAGA has lost 27 of the last 32 races in those six [battleground] states.