california. getting credit for some of the things he had done earlier on. obviously had it gone the other direction, had the republicans come closer to taking him out, a landslide or an earthquake in american politics. democrats are going to use this to make some momentum to say that the spirit of anti-trumpism is alive and there s a message here about public health that can be translated to other states. john, peter knows and the four of us know that journalists are paid to overread the results of every election ever held and apply it forward to the next election in the hopper. to that end, peter s paper writes it this way. the recall does offer at least one lesson to democrats in washington ahead of next year s midterm elections. the party s pre-existing blue and purple state strategy of portraying republicans as trump-loving extremists can still prove effective with the
Douthat: Twilight of the anti-Trump idols
Ross Douthat, New York Times
March 2, 2021
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo got a pass from the press during the Trump presidency, but now his many failings have come into full focus.JOHANNES EISELE /AFP via Getty Images
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency and especially in the COVID-19 era, there was a quest for figures who could be held up as embodiments of everything that Trump’s opposition wanted to restore: reason, technical competence, idealism. These figures took on the character of familiar dramatic archetypes the Good Republican, the Heroic Whistleblower, the Beleaguered Expert, the Tough Blue State Governor, the Wise and Sophisticated Europeans.
ivanka trump representing the u.s. government went to china and got a bunch of patents right when she was meeting with president xi. so isn t it okay? just another example of anti-trumpism. how is that okay? the president s family has been involved in business around the world for a long time. so you can keep doing it while you work in the u.s. government? so you can keep so they can make business, they can do business, they can make money while they re working for the u.s. government. really? they re not selling absolutely they can. wow, i didn t know that. if you have business interests around the world before you get in office, getting in office doesn t preclude you from making money. so being congressman, if you had a business beforehand, so you can take a meeting and say, by the way, before i talk to you about this policy, i d love to get a new contract for my shipping company. i didn t know you could do that. there you go at it again. i m being facet
ahead and acknowledge that there may have been a this for that, as it pertains to ukraine and the president s motives here. but then, you know, last night with our chris cuomo, a lawmaker randy weber, took a different approach which might be signposting how republicans might be handling this. it might be a strategy of defend and deflect. listen to that. ivanka trump representing the u.s. government went to china and got a bunch of patents when she was meeting with president xi. isn t it okay? just another example of anti-trumpism you just quoted. how is that okay? the president s family has been involved in business around the world for a long time. so you can keep doing it while you work in the u.s. government? so they can make business. they can do business. they can make money while
u.s. president and went to china and got a bunch of patents right when she was meeting with president xi. so isn t it okay? just another example of anti-trumpism. so you can keep doing it while you work in the u.s. government? so they can make business, they can do business, they can make money while they re working for the u.s. government. really? they re not selling absolutely they can. wow, i didn t know that. if you have business interests around the world before you get in office, getting in office doesn t preclude you from making money. so being congressman, if you had a business beforehand, so can you take a meeting and say by the way, before i talk to you about this policy, i d love to get a new contract for my shipping company. i didn t know you could do that. there you go at it again.