Larry Hogan's MAGA Education
Plus: The Beer Night Riot, 50 Years Ago: What Was That America Like?
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JILL LAWRENCE: The MAGA Education of Larry Hogan
FORMER MARYLAND GOVERNOR LARRY HOGAN left office last year with a 77 percent job-approval rating—astonishing for anyone, and especially for a Republican in a deep blue state. But now, as a Senate candidate, the formula that won him two terms as governor is imploding on contact with the MAGA GOP.
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DAN MCGRAW: The Beer Night Riot, 50 Years Ago: What Was That America Like?
WHEN MY FRIEND OF DECADES JIM KANDER called me a few weeks ago and told me the fiftieth anniversary was coming up, I didn’t have to ask him what he was referring to. I knew it was the “Beer Night Riot” in Cleveland on June 4, 1974—a night of sports infamy Jim and I got to experience firsthand.
The events of that night weren’t televised or filmed as moving pictures, which is why all these years later many don’t know about the Beer Night Riot. But it deserves to be remembered for the wild night it was—a beautiful summer night baseball game between the Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians where fans got so drunk on unlimited 10-cent beers that they stormed the field with bottles and knives. They were acting so crazy that the players for both teams had to counter-storm the field to protect themselves. Many of the players did so with baseball bats, although those didn’t offer much help against the bottles and chairs raining down on them from the upper decks.
DENNIS AFTERGUT: Trump’s Desperate, Dangerous Attacks on the Rule of Law
NOW THAT A JURY HAS CONVICTED DONALD TRUMP on 34 felony counts, he has aimed his vengeance-driven, full-force fusillade directly at the rule of law. Beginning immediately after the guilty verdicts, he and his sycophants in the Republican party unloaded on our system of justice, screeching out that it is time for revenge. The administration of justice, they falsely claim, has been “weaponized” and used as a “cudgel” like in “a banana republic.”
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