1) There’s a Tik Tok video from Courier Newsroom that pulls out specifics from Project 2025 on just a few of the things that will horrify anyone who hasn’t drunk the Heritage Foundation Koolaid. The danger of Project 2025 is that if any Republican administration gets in the White House and has control of Congress, that’s the plan they’ll be pushing. And we know the Supreme Court will not stop them.
2) There’s a second video, this one from the BBC that lays out just how big a threat to democracy Trump is: the lies, the radical ambitions, the dismantling of all the guard rails… Again, it’s a terrifying prospect.
3) Digby links to an article from Politico: Why The World Is Betting Against American Democracy. Nahal Toosi has been talking to the diplomatic corps. and it’s not good news.
When I asked the European ambassador to talk to me about America’s deepening partisan divide, I expected a polite brushoff at best. Foreign diplomats are usually loath to discuss domestic U.S. politics.
Instead, the ambassador unloaded for an hour, warning that America’s poisonous politics are hurting its security, its economy, its friends and its standing as a pillar of democracy and global stability.
The U.S. is a “fat buffalo trying to take a nap” as hungry wolves approach, the envoy mused. “I can hear those Champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow — like it’s Christmas every fucking day.”
They don’t dodge around the elephant in the room — the radical right wing that is the GOP these days. They are destroying America’s credibility as a reliable partner and functional democracy — and they don’t care.
READ THE WHOLE THING.
Watch the videos, look at the story from Politico, and share them as widely as you can. The regular media will not tell us about this — they’re too busy treating the run for the White House as a horse race — they’re too busy looking at who is winning, not what they will do if they win.
BONUS HULLABALOO:
January 6th Is Now Global
Elections elsewhere in the world are no longer cut and dried affairs when losers decide to follow the example of January 6 — and some of the same actors who were behind the insurrection are turning up in the middle of it.
The Party Of Law And Order
Polling shows that a majority of Republican caucus attendees would not care if Trump was convicted of a crime before the general election. As for Haley supporters…
Less than half of Haley’s tiny anti-Trump Iowa constituency say it would make them less likely to vote for Trump if he’s convicted by a jury of his peers for trying to stage a coup. These are the Real Americans the media has relentlessly insisted we’re all supposed to revere for their common wisdom and authentic all-American patriotism.
This is not where we want to be.
Never give up, never surrender.