Trump has trashed America's most important alliance. The rift with Europe could take de... - 0 views
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The presidency of Donald Trump has left such a wretched stench in Europe that it's hard to see how, even in four years, Joe Biden could possibly get America's most important alliance back on track.
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This week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled a final trip to meet with European and NATO leaders.
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Throughout Trump's term, Europeans have been walking a tightrope, trying to balance outright condemnation of the President's most destructive behavior with not alienating the leader of the Western world.
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A First for an American President, and a First for Donald Trump - The New York Times - 0 views
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When the president faced (and overcame) impeachment in 2019 after pressing the Ukrainian president to investigate Joseph R. Biden Jr., he insisted it was merely an innocuous case of two guys talking. “A perfect call,” he said, not a high crime.
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For most of Mr. Trump’s 74 years, the relationship between his words and their consequences has been fairly straightforward: He says what he wants, and nothing particularly durable tends to happen to him.
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Hadn’t he used the word “peacefully” one time in that address before the Capitol riot, tucked between the more dominant instructions to “fight” and “show strength” and “go by very different rules” as he whipped up anger against elected officials, including his own vice president, who were disinclined to subvert the will of the electorate?
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Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban - The New York Times - 0 views
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In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures targeting Muslims. And in Ethiopia, groups pleaded for the social network to block hate speech after hundreds were killed in ethnic violence inflamed by social media.
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But last week, Facebook and Twitter cut off President Trump from their platforms for inciting a crowd that attacked the U.S. Capitol. Those decisions have angered human rights groups and activists, who are now urging the companies to apply their policies evenly, particularly in smaller countries where the platforms dominate communications.
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David Kaye, a law professor and former United Nations monitor for freedom of expression, said political figures in India, the Philippines, Brazil and elsewhere deserved scrutiny for their behavior online. But he said the actions against Mr. Trump raised difficult questions about how the power of American internet companies was applied, and if their actions set a new precedent to more aggressively police speech around the world.
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Trump's Ideas Flourish Among State and Local Republicans - The New York Times - 0 views
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As Mr. Trump prepares to exit the White House and face a second impeachment trial in the Senate, his ideas continue to exert a gravitational pull in Republican circles across the country. The falsehoods, white nationalism and baseless conspiracy theories he peddled for four years have become ingrained at the grass-roots level of the party, embraced by activists, local leaders and elected officials even as a handful of Republicans in Congress break with the president in the final hour.
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The continued support for the president is likely to maintain Mr. Trump’s influence long after he leaves office. That could hamper the ability of the party to unify and reshape its agenda to help woo back moderate suburban voters who play a decisive role in winning battleground states and presidential elections.
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“It is priority No. 1 to retain Trump voters,” said Harmeet Dhillon, an R.N.C. member from California. “There is no way to do that with rapid change, tacking in a different direction. Voters are looking to the party for continuity and to stay the course.”
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If Republicans don't denounce Marjorie Taylor Greene's extremism, they'll own it (opini... - 0 views
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CNN's review this week of hundreds of posts and comments from Greene's Facebook account from 2018 and 2019 -- before she was elected to Congress --revealed that she had repeatedly advocated executing prominent Democratic politicians.
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Greene "liked" a comment that said "a bullet to the head would be quicker" to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other comments about executing so-called "deep state" FBI agents.
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"Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off."
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In the Republican Party, the post-Trump era lasted a week - CNNPolitics - 0 views
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Two roads diverged in American politics, and the Republican Party chose the one traveled by disgraced ex-President Donald Trump and QAnon conspiracy theorists.
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Only a week after Trump left the White House, it's clear that his party is not ready to let him go. Extremists and Trumpists are on the rise, while lawmakers who condemned his aberrant conduct fight for their political careers. The anti-Trump wing -- represented by members of Congress such as Sens. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Mitt Romney of Utah and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger -- look like a small and outmaneuvered force.
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This week's sorting will have significant implications for the GOP's positioning as it heads into the 2022 midterm elections,
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This is the price of admission for the 2024 GOP race - CNNPolitics - 0 views
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On January 20, South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem was in Washington to celebrate the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president."Congratulations to President Biden and Vice President Harris on your inauguration today...thankful for my @SitkaGear gloves," she tweeted, alongside a picture of her seat at the event. "Brrr...cold and it snowed!"
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Noem was asked by reporters in her home state whether she regretted tweeting that the election was "rigged" in the days after the 2020 vote. And she responded this way:"I think that we deserve fair and transparent elections. I think there's a lot of people who have doubts about that."
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The ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one's head has become a necessity for ambitious Republicans politicians over the last four years. There's what they know to be true (there's absolutely no evidence of any widespread voter fraud or rigging of the 2020 election) and what they have to say in order to preserve their own political futures in a party that has spent the last several years being led by a pied piper of prevarication.
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Opinion | Trump Was Kicked Off Twitter. Who's Next? - The New York Times - 0 views
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After the Capitol was stormed by a mob fired up by President Trump, Facebook suspended his account, arguing that it was used “to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.” Twitter, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence,” has done the same, blocking Mr. Trump from using its platform to communicate to his more than 80 million followers.
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And such power can certainly be exercised in good ways. Maybe Facebook and Twitter should be more active in suspending accounts of elected officials, candidates and others, if they think those people — on the left, right or anywhere else on the political spectrum — are fomenting riots, emboldening looters or supporting violence or vandalism.
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In general, it’s good for private businesses to be able to decide how to use their property. And trying to create laws constraining those decisions may well do more harm than good — always a danger with even the best-intentioned of new laws. Yet both liberals and conservatives should appreciate the perils of power, especially the power of enormous companies that have few competitors and huge influence over political life.
Opinion | Appeasement Got Us Where We Are - The New York Times - 0 views
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Donald Trump, however, is indeed a fascist — an authoritarian willing to use violence to achieve his racial nationalist goals. So are many of his supporters. If you had any doubts about that, Wednesday’s attack on Congress should have ended them.
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And if history teaches us one lesson about dealing with fascists, it is the futility of appeasement. Giving in to fascists doesn’t pacify them, it just encourages them to go further.
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So why have so many public figures — who should have known what Trump and his movement were — tried, again and again, to placate them by giving in to their demands? Why are they still doing it even now?
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The 51st State? Washington DC Revisits an Uphill Cause With New Fervor - The New York T... - 0 views
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On the day after a mob rampaged through the halls of Congress, the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel E. Bowser, heaped praise on the Metropolitan Police Department officers who had rushed to restore order after the Capitol’s police force was overwhelmed.
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“I’m upset that 706,000 residents of the District of Columbia did not have a single vote in that Congress yesterday despite the fact their officers were putting their lives on the line to defend democracy.”
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But Wednesday’s riot, in which 56 city police officers were injured, has become Example One in a renewed and decidedly uphill effort to change the legislators’ minds.
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Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online - The New York Times - 0 views
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back online a month after Amazon and other tech giants cut off the company for hosting calls for violence around the time of the Capitol riot.
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Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.
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Parler relied on help from a Russian firm that once worked for the Russian government and a Seattle firm that once supported a neo-Nazi site.
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75 percent of Republicans want Trump to play prominent role in GOP: poll | TheHill - 0 views
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Three-quarters of Republicans said they want former President TrumpDonald TrumpMichigan Democrat Dingell on violent rhetoric: 'I've had men in front of my house with assault weapons' McConnell doesn't rule out getting involved in Republican primaries 75 percent of Republicans want Trump to play prominent role in GOP: poll MORE to play a prominent role in the Republican Party despite his second impeachment trial, according to a poll released on Monday – two days after his acquittal
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Sixty percent of all Americans said they did not want Trump to have an important role in the Republican Party, including 96 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of independents.
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A majority of respondents, 55 percent, also said the former president should not be permitted to hold elected office in the future. Republicans again strayed from the majority with 87 percent saying that Trump should be allowed to hold elected office.
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How Misinformation Threatened a Montana National Heritage Area - The New York Times - 0 views
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Ms. Grulkowski had just heard about a years-in-the-making effort to designate her corner of central Montana a national heritage area, celebrating its role in the story of the American West. A small pot of federal matching money was there for the taking, to help draw more visitors and preserve underfunded local tourist attractions.
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She collected addresses from a list of voters and spent $1,300 sending a packet denouncing the proposed heritage area to 1,498 farmers and ranchers. She told them the designation would forbid landowners to build sheds, drill wells or use fertilizers and pesticides. It would alter water rights, give tourists access to private property, create a new taxation district and prohibit new septic systems and burials on private land, she said.
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From the vantage point of informed democratic decision making, it’s a haunting tale about how a sustained political campaign can succeed despite — or perhaps as a result of — being divorced from reality.
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67% of GOP want Trump to stay in politics, 44% want him to run for president | Pew Rese... - 0 views
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Two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they would like to see former President Donald Trump continue to be a major political figure for many years to come, including 44% who say they would like him to run for president in 2024, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Sept. 13 to 19.
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About one-in-five Republicans (22%) say that while they would like Trump to continue to be a major political figure in the United States,
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About a third of Republicans (32%) say they would not like Trump to remain a national political figure for many years to come.
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Ukraine War Ushers In 'New Era' for Biden and U.S. Abroad - The New York Times - 0 views
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“It feels like we’re definitively in a new era,” said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser in the Obama White House. “The post-9/11 war on terror period of American hubris, and decline, is now behind us. And we’re not sure what’s next.”
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The attack by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on his neighbor has become a prism through which nearly all American foreign policy decisions will be cast for the foreseeable future, experts and officials said.
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In the near term, Russia’s aggression is sure to invigorate Mr. Biden’s global fight for democracy against autocracies like Moscow
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A new low for global democracy | The Economist - 0 views
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LOBAL DEMOCRACY continued its precipitous decline in 2021, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from our sister company, EIU.
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The global score fell from 5.37 to a new low of 5.28 out of ten. The only equivalent drop since 2006 was in 2010 after the global financial crisis.
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For the second year in a row, the pandemic was the biggest source of strain on democratic freedom around the world.
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Barr Rebukes Trump as 'Off the Rails' in New Memoir - The New York Times - 0 views
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Former Attorney General William P. Barr writes in a new memoir that former President Donald J. Trump’s “self-indulgence and lack of self-control” cost him the 2020 election and says “the absurd lengths to which he took his ‘stolen election’ claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill.”
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In the book, “One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General,” Mr. Barr also urges his fellow Republicans to pick someone else as the party’s nominee for the 2024 election, calling the prospect of another presidential run by Mr. Trump “dismaying.”
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“Donald Trump has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,”
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