Kate thank you for your comment. You may well be right though I don't know what you mean by "feinted". Whitmer seems able and tough enough to take the hits and turn them back, but as you imply being a governor is not the same as being a candidate for president. However, that's going to be the same with anyone, and if the tests she's been…
Kate thank you for your comment. You may well be right though I don't know what you mean by "feinted". Whitmer seems able and tough enough to take the hits and turn them back, but as you imply being a governor is not the same as being a candidate for president. However, that's going to be the same with anyone, and if the tests she's been given have been local, they were pretty serious.
To me, the most challenging issue is to confront and defeat the isolationist authoritarian movement represented by Trump and his clique. It's not just important for the US, but or the world. The rules based international order sponsored and to a large degree maintained by the US and its allies is under threat and to me it's the most pressing of all the issues involved. Truly wonderful strides have been made in many parts of the globe, and without diminishing the problems that remain it seems as if any progress in material well being by anyone else, is bad, and those gains are under threat. We see in Trump's recent wheeze of a uniform tariff applied to all imports the spectre of the Smoot Hawley tariff in the 1930s that entrenched the depression and lay the groundwork for Nazism to triumph in Germany. Biden hasn't been immune to this seductive melody either. What is worse is what seems to me to be an American predilection to think that those seeking undermine that order are amenable to persuasion, or at least honest negotiation.
Kate thank you for your comment. You may well be right though I don't know what you mean by "feinted". Whitmer seems able and tough enough to take the hits and turn them back, but as you imply being a governor is not the same as being a candidate for president. However, that's going to be the same with anyone, and if the tests she's been given have been local, they were pretty serious.
To me, the most challenging issue is to confront and defeat the isolationist authoritarian movement represented by Trump and his clique. It's not just important for the US, but or the world. The rules based international order sponsored and to a large degree maintained by the US and its allies is under threat and to me it's the most pressing of all the issues involved. Truly wonderful strides have been made in many parts of the globe, and without diminishing the problems that remain it seems as if any progress in material well being by anyone else, is bad, and those gains are under threat. We see in Trump's recent wheeze of a uniform tariff applied to all imports the spectre of the Smoot Hawley tariff in the 1930s that entrenched the depression and lay the groundwork for Nazism to triumph in Germany. Biden hasn't been immune to this seductive melody either. What is worse is what seems to me to be an American predilection to think that those seeking undermine that order are amenable to persuasion, or at least honest negotiation.