“A successful politician today needs to know how to use social media without being used by it—to appeal to their partisan base without being captured by it. If anyone is up for this task, it’s JD Vance,” writes @Yair_Rosenberg.
Month: March 2025
*****$$$$ NYTimes: Kash Patel Is a Warning Shot
Kash Patel Is a Warning Shot https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/kash-patel-trump-fbi.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******* NYTimes: Psst, Musk, Look Over Here
******$$$$$ Watch “He Convinced the Right D.E.I. Is Wrong. Now He’s Coming for the Left.” on YouTube
***** Europe Confronts the Rise of the Brutal American
******** The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings
The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings
*****$$$$$ NYTimes.com: ‘Trump Is the Real Thing’
‘Trump Is the Real Thing’
Vengence is his.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/trump-imperial-presidency.html?smid=em-share
****** $$$$ NYTimes: Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion/treasure-secretaries-doge-musk.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
How the British Broke Their Own Economy
******$$$ The Other Fear of the Founders
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/founders-fear-of-oligarchy/681650/
Yet wealth is no guarantor of wisdom or virtue. A combination of the rich and the ignorant, Adams noted, could empower a demagogue at the expense of democracy.