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Mara Rudman: We need a president who won't endanger the world

This vision of the region — where Iran is countered, Israel’s right to exist is no longer denied, a pathway to a future Palestinian state is assured, and the ideological oxygen and tangible resources that fuel Iran’s proxies are turned off — is possible with partnership from the United States led by a strong, level-headed president.
Mara Rudman
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Even if Harris isn't talking about gender, everyone else is

“Harris already broke the glass ceiling; she became vice president of the United States. But as far as becoming a Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton already did that. In terms of being well poised to win the popular vote, Hillary Clinton already did that. And so it’s less novel.”
Jennifer Lawless
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Immigration, disinformation, and violence…in 1880

"Looking back at the post-Civil War era, we could take some comfort in the realization that aspects of our contemporary politics are not new. But if we dig a little deeper, we may be able to learn more about what is constant and what is changing in American politics."
Robert Strong
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Trump’s National Security Advisers Fall Flat Defending Him

Robert’s testimony that Trump loves our soldiers flies in the face of John Kelly’s and Mark Esper’s revelations that he considers dead service members to be “suckers and losers” and that he didn’t like seeing wounded warriors because it was a “bad look” for him. Milley, Mattis, Kelly, and Esper have all been in the news recently calling Trump’s views and fundamental fitness into question. If the guy at the top is an unstable admirer of fascists, then what his foreign policy advisers think doesn’t really matter that much.
Eric Edelman