Barton Gellman offers alarming scenarios for the Nov. 3 aftermath
You must read it, but you won’t sleep well afterwards. Headlined “The Election That Could Break America,” it’s in The Atlantic.
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Masha Gessen on Trump, political language, and totalitarianism
Vox’s Sean Illing interviewed Gessen, mostly about the Trump moment, for a great piece that the headline said was about “American politics after the death of ‘truth.’”
On the Constitution and the grave test that may loom before us
I wonder whether our founding document’s power to bind us might be about to face its most difficult test since the end of the Civil War.
Al Franken: Trump’s ‘laying a lot of groundwork’ for not accepting the election results
In an interview with U professor Larry Jacobs, Franken said he was worried about what Trump might do on Election Day, like declare victory without waiting for the huge number of mail-in ballots to be counted, taking the position that “The only way I’m not sworn in again on January 20 is if it’s been stolen from me.”
Frontline’s ‘The Choice’ tells the Biden, Trump stories
“The Choice,” smart as ever, airs tonight on TPT 2 in the Twin Cities and on other PBS stations everywhere.
Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt tweets against Trumpism
His 10 tweets from Saturday night have been turned into an op-ed.
Views of the U.S. plunge in Pew Research survey
Previous ups and downs were nothing compared to the steep drop measured in 2020, hitting an all-time low in almost every nation surveyed.
WaPo-ABC News poll has Biden up 16 points among likely voters in Minnesota
The same batch of Post-ABC News polls included fresh results from neighboring Wisconsin. That poll showed Biden also ahead, but by a narrower 52-46 percent margin.
U of M forum explores AG Barr and how far his loyalty to Trump might go
Washington Post reporter Tom Hamburger joined professor Larry Jacobs of the University of Minnesota and former Vice President Walter Mondale for a long interview/conversation via Zoom.
AARP swing-state polling shows Biden up, with some tight races
If all these states were to go to the current leader in these polls, Joe Biden would win by a landslide in the Electoral College, although the size of the lead in many states was within the margin of error.
On the ‘cancer’ of Trump — and the non-derangement of Biden
Trump is a believer in the cult of himself and whatever is financially, politically or egotistically beneficial to him in a given moment.
New revelations only add to evidence that Trump disdains military service
Trump has apparently expressed quite clearly and to many people that the amazing thing to him about all those young people who did serve was that there was nothing in it for them.
Trump campaign questionnaire: amusing or insulting?
One of the questions is, “Which do you identify as?” The answer choices: American or Socialist.
Morning Consult shows Biden up 50% to 43% in Minnesota
Nationally, the pollster now shows Biden leading by 51-43, which is no change from what it found just before the two-week convention season.
Of 2016 supporters of minor parties, two-thirds favor Biden in 2020
In the 2016 presidential election, about 5.7 percent of votes went to minor party candidates.
ABC News/Ipsos post-convention poll shows little change in Trump’s favorability
Thirty-one percent of the country had a favorable view of the president, actually down one point from a poll taken a week earlier.
Fareed Zakaria on the U.S. choice: Change or decay
“You see, once upon a time, the rest of the world needed to learn from America,” Zakaria said. “Now, America needs to learn from the rest of the world.”
The Republican platform is basically just ‘Do what Trump says’
The New York Times noted that and other interesting details in an interview published this morning.
Trump’s norm-busting acceptance speech seemed desperate
His hourlong+ address on the White House lawn was filled with bizarre claims and exaggerations.
Thomas Edsall explores a key demographic shift and its effect on the presidential race
One of President Trump’s agendas, Edsall writes, is “the preservation of the status quo by stemming the erosion of the privileged status of white Christian America.”
