Jeff JarvisNov 18, 2024
Poor, deluded George Will. Pathetic, eh?
The Senate’s Madisonian opportunity on those nominations https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/17/donald-trump-nominees-senate-james-madison/
The Senate’s Madisonian opportunity on those nominations

A good thing about Trump’s ghastly nominees: They could jolt the Senate into reclaiming its independence.

The Washington Post
Show threadcanevecchio
@jeffjarvis The American “Gleichschaltung” begins. Toadies like George Will always think showing their Aryan certificates to the Gauleiter will keep them out of the cattle cars. Yeah, of course nobody wants to fight who has mouths to feed. Sad, but very human. An old friend of mine who left Berlin with her family as a 12 year-old in 1936 once told me about watching uniformed SA thugs putting “We know where you live, Jew” cards under the windshield wipers of cars on her block. That’s us now.
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Show threadNicky BaseballNov 18, 2024
@Canevecchio @jeffjarvis I gotta tell you, I am scared, but what's even scarier is that these people AREN'T scared. They have no clue that they have opened Pandora's box.
Show threadcanevecchioNov 18, 2024
@baseball25 @jeffjarvis No, they don’t. The Germans didn’t either. Fast forward to today, the Germans have even less reason to forget 1945 than we do, but check out the AfD percentage gains in their last couple of regional elections. The EU elections as well. It’s a very dark take on human perfectability, Kant and the Enlightenment be damned.