The Atlantic, as their loyal readers know, is deliberately not a partisan magazine. “Of no party or clique” is their original 1857 motto, and it is true today. Nonetheless, they were moved to devote an entire issue to the dangers of Trump winning the Oval Office again. They believe him to be “an antidemocratic demagogue, one who is completely devoid of decency”.
Cover of January/February 2024 issue of The Atlantic.
You can read the articles here.
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.
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?