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A Righteous Rant About the “Cult of Trump” by Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
MLK’s Struggle Was Much More Than a Few Obligatory Quotes
How do most Americans view the legacy of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.? It depends on who you ask and your party affiliation.
A survey conducted only a few months ago by the Pew Research Center shows the following results. Complete Results are here.
Read more about MLK in this article — How Republicans Whitewash MLK: The GOP has a history of taking Martin Luther King Jr.’s words out of context to justify their own racist policies.
Most U.S. adults (81%) say Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the country, with 47% saying King has had a very positive impact. Some 38% say their own views on racial equality have been influenced by King’s legacy a great deal or a fair amount.
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A majority of Democrats and Democratic leaners (58%) say King has had a very positive impact on the country, compared with 37% of Republicans and those who lean to the GOP.
Ideological differences among Democrats
Liberal Democrats (68%) are far more likely than moderate and conservative Democrats (50%) to say King has had a very positive impact on the country.
There is no difference on this question between conservative Republicans and moderate and liberal Republicans.
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Some 53% of Black adults say Martin Luther King Jr. has had a very positive impact on the country, compared with 46% each among White and Hispanic adults and 43% of Asian adults.
Everyone Knows This One
Progress, Yes; Still a Long Way to Go Since 1963
Needed: More Light
Attribution for the above editorial cartoon: Dennis Goris @DennisGoris
The Sublime and the Ridiculous
So Much Love, So Much Unity!
The story of 2023 wasn’t the search for another Republican leader—but the Party’s embrace of the one it already has.
Four years ago, on the threshold of a critical election year that would decide whether Donald Trump won another term in the White House, I asked a German friend, Constanze Stelzenmüller, of the Brookings Institution, to come up with one of those long Teutonic words for the state of constant, gnawing anxiety that Trump’s disruptive tenure inspired.
She came back with a true mouthful, a thirty-three-letter concoction that pretty much summed it up: Trumpregierungsschlamasselschmerz. Helpfully, she suggested that it would be fine to shorten this to Trumpschmerz. It means something like “Trump-worry,” but on steroids. At the time, I defined it as “the continuous pain or ache of the soul” that comes from the excessive contemplation of the slow-motion Trump car crash.
Well, here we go again. Headed into 2024, America is stuck with another bad case of Trumpschmerz.
Hate: That’s All He Has to Offer
“Tricky Dick” — One Hell of a Role Model
Republican Support for Trump Has Gone ↑ Since Jan 6, 2021
Is This a Confession?
Full Speed Ahead
The Danger Ahead
A Blast from the Past
Do You Believe This Guy?
I Smell Nothing
The 2024 GOP VP Nominee
Maximum Leader
Priorities
The Art of the Deal
The Wise Man Speaketh
Why Should MAGA Folks Support Trump?
He is an experienced cheater. End of discussion.
Always the Victim
MAGA-Maniacal
Calling Hallmark Cards
Diary Poll
Remember to take the diary poll. This interesting discussion was taped on the night of the August 28, 1963 “March On Washington.”
Find out more about this film, featured in "The Unwritten Record," the National Archives blog of the Special Media Archives Services Division: https://unwritten-record.blogs.archiv…
In this motion picture film, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Joseph Mankiewicz, James Baldwin and David Schoenbrun discuss the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963.