I liked these words by David Smith about Trump's closing comments in his last election rally, in the Guardian today:
There might be something achingly poignant and elegiac about it – a lion in winter departing the stage – but for the fact that Trump is a twice-impeached malignant narcissist with a knife at the throat of democracy.
That last statement is very true. The New York Times has chronicled the attempts already being mounted by the Trump campaign to deny Harris victory, even if it is clearly hers to be had. I think the article is free; I certainly got access to it. As a portent of what is going to happen over the next few weeks, it is worth reading.
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I don’t think its free – I could not access it.
Shame
I got the whole article from that link. I only have the daily news digest for Europe email – don’t pay for anything else.
I have access to the New York Times through an institutional subscription, but can’t find the article you mention among those available (quite a long list) for the November 4 edition. I used some of the words in the link as search terms, assuming they were a compression of the article title, but no go. If the title is not close to the words in the link, perhaps you could say what it is?
The New York Times used to allow me to read up to 3 articles free a month, but now, like Peter Wills, I find myself blocked unless I take out an on-sale subscription, which I don’t want to do for something I only read very occasionally.
I can only offer the link. The NYT is draconian on quoting the,.
It’s archived and available.
https://archive.ph/E7MBo
At first it asked me to sign in, which I did, and then it hit me with the paywall. However I closed the tab and then clicked Richard’s link again and this time it let me in free. May work for you if you want to read it.
Students conversant in the critiquing of Neo-liberalism will not be surprised at how matters stand in the U.S.
This is what happens when you trust rich people and allow them to get more rich. Not only are they taking from others, they are assembling powers that threaten democracy itself.
Neo-liberalism was always an exercise in the self interest of the rich. We are now entering a post political world, because politics was the art of restraint on behalf of the many.
Politics itself has been overthrown in U.S. It will mean freedom for the rich and unfreedom everywhere else.
I went to this conference six years ago.
Daniel Stedman-Jones wrote Masters of the Universe.
This is an hour long but gives a history of neo-liberalism. He says
Politics and economics must be understood at a global level.
Neo-liberalism is nuanced and we have to be aware to understand it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEHJlvbdQIk
Thanks
I have a feeling Trump is finished, my brother in law lives in Pittsburgh and has noticed a
slight change of mood in the last week or so, front yard Trump flags and such like disappearing, more talk of Harris in the cafes and such. Of course Trumpty and His Numpties will try all kinds of stunts to steal the result, but one hopes that Biden and his advisers are ready for that, and Trump doesn’t have the advantage of being the incumbent.
My brother in law is not pessimistic that Harris wont win but half jokingly I offered him refuge at our place if it all goes sideways and he asked me seriously if we could do that for a year or so!
How did we get to this place where a professor of Metallurgy is contemplating abandoning the Country for a while??
Could the opinion polls be as wrong as Gallup was in 1948? My feeling is, and I’m not a betting person, is that Harris will win by a length.
And more than that, as this segment from Rachel Maddow’s show last evening, illustrates: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
But also quite a few segments on the various MSNBC current affairs shows about actions that are being taken to deter election interference by Trumps supporters, as here: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
Certainly Trump and co are going to try again to win by any means, but at least this time round everyone knows what to expect.
For some reason I can’t open these
I hope others can
And this from Lawrence O’Donnell, is well worth watching, Richard. https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-s-final-message-on-harris-v-trump-you-can-choose-hope-223564869862
I’ll also predict a Harris victory, and that Democrats take the House, though I suspect they may now win the Senate. We’ll soon see.
Here is an Archive Today link to the NYT article
https://archive.ph/E7MBo
Thank you, Richard.
Readers and Richard may be interested in: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/elections-2024-america-at-the-end-of-its-tether.html.
Thank you CS
Read that linked piece on Naked Capitalism earlier, very good and equally applicable to the UK
@Colonel Smithers
Many thanks for this excellent piece, from which two quotes stood out.
First: Gurewich suggests that part of the anxiety of the electorate “comes from the fact that the stupidity of their leaders is so much greater than their own.”
How very true – Starmer or Badenoch anyone? Or even Farage?
And secondly how it closes
“If we really want to reclaim our democracy, we need leaders who not only grasp the depth of our suffering but also present a vision that speaks to our shared humanity. Otherwise, we’re just going to be stuck as passive spectators in a political theater that’s lost the plot and doesn’t serve us anymore.”
I repeat, Starmer, the political, unrmpathic automaton, who simply cannot be trusted – (as Peter Oborne long ago characterised him. See https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2023/september/25/exposed-keir-starmer-liar-murdochs-man-candidate-mi5-peter-oborne. And how right he was, with his latest U-turn on University fees (up) v return of grants (“No way. I never said it”)),
Or Badenoch, who clearly can be trusted, but only to be worse than her predecessors.
And both Leaders of the two cheeks of the Single Transferable Party are prime candidates for recipients of Dennis Skinner’s immortal putdown of a particularly stupid Tory Minister as “educated beyond his intelligence”.
What a creek we’re up, without a paddle.
Another one for readers today: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/so-what-happens-after-a-trump-or-harris-win.html.
That is interesting
If it’s the article I’m thinking of, written by Jon Meacham, it’s also available to read on Facebook. If you go to the People for Kamala Facebook site and scroll down a few posts, it’s the post put up by Timothy Snyder. You can read the whole article there, without having to subscribe to the NYT.