Election Security, Ignoring Antisemitism, and MAGA Illiberalism
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🎵On the Jukebox…🎵 Richard Ashcroft - “Sonnet” Live at the BBC Piano Room
There’s some weird stuff… going on at the White House.
How Airbus took off… Airbus is an example of successful industrial policy and the rare European company that is better than its American rival. Could its success be copied elsewhere? Alex Chalmers takes a deep dive at Works in Progress.
Are you in Utah? And want to hang with some Bulwark friends at a Principles First event this Wednesday? Friend of the newsletter Holly Berkley Fletcher will be on the Religious Liberty: A Shared Constitutional Guarantee panel in Salt Lake City.
American Conservatism and Liberal Democracy… Why one thing goes with the other. Jay Nordlinger at The Next Move.
Democratic performance in off-year elections demonstrates Trump and MAGA’s weakness A key challenge for Democrats in the coming year will be to sharpen public defiance into a force powerful enough to foil Trump’s authoritarian responses to his growing unpopularity, writes Jim Carroll at Flux.
A reminder: It’s time for the annual Thanksgiving Cookbook. (You can still submit recipes! Details inside.)
This week’s conversation prompt: What’s different about your Thanksgiving preparation this year?
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In his latest episode of "Trump the President", Trump is on the unsinkable Titanic, the greatest ship ever built, "unbelievable", cruising majestically across the sea, when BAMM, the ship slams into the iceberg of doom and begins to sink. All on board are in a panic, Trump, on the top deck, is rushing back and forth from railing to railing trying to find a safe way off the boat, but alas, there aren't enough life boats. He tried to get into some lifeboats by pulling off little children or by pointing out darker skinned passengers who were already on those boats and must be illegals or drug dealears. But, tragicaly, no one would let him onto their lifeboat. In a panic, he lurches across the sinking boat looking for someplace to hide or something that would float. To no avail. In the last scene, Trump is trapped at the stern of the boat, railing against the unfair treatment he has received his whole life as the Titanic slips under the surface and Trump is never heard from again.
Glanced through the cookbook as I cannot ever resist a cookbook. In all my years of cooking I have never seen an instruction to "make it furry with oregano". Thanks, and I might even try one or two of these. Thanks for a bit of rest from the crazy.