withdraw their troops and if they initiated talk about an apology, i can t imagine any ukrainians having any hatreds just to russian people just because they are russian after that stop. president biden, faced with a block that includes russia, china, iran and increasingly possibly saudi arabia, wants to reinforce his own grouping of democratic countries. europe, japan, south korea and so on. what better country to attract to this than india. the world s largest democracy. fine, except that india s democratic record is pretty questionable nowadays with ethnic and religious groups feeling discriminated against by the government and the media and increasingly the judiciary under the control of narendra modi. india s
possess the country and other people should be shut up and be grateful. that is that visceral emotional response to desantis and pence. and pence presenting it with all that piety that he does really urks me. and then there is the reality of what they re doing politically, revealing what is at the heart of the trump base of the republican party base and that is hatred, fear and grievance. to political correctness is a shorthand and critical race theory becomes a short end and equity of inclusion and people who look like me a shorthand and people who aren t heterosexual. whenever they get a chance to appeal to people s fears and hatreds, they do. and to me it is eroding the very fabric, or tearing the very fabric of the country apart. we don t we talk about how we re moving toward a more perfect union and how over decades, i was very moved by tim
you re saying that desantis on this first day, where he will be most seen, has cast himself as robin to elon musk s batman in on his turf in his purchased bat cave. i like that. you should do this more on tv. that s a very good metaphor. we didn t plan that at all. i take your point. you re talking about how that will be seen. he looks like the supply constant. he didn t look like the president. i know desantis will go around in diners and take questions. he s not ever going to do that. to launch this way assumes an awful lot of republican primary voters love are on twitter, love elon musk, want the candidate who can most appeal to kind of various right-wing obsessions and and hatreds, frankly. desantis has been following that playbook for a while.
party? well, in terms of the student, it lets us now, just really quickly, it lets us know that some students don t feel a sense of possession of their institutions. they feel like they have been admitted by way of charity, a sense of belonging, possession of the institution. this is going to deepen the feeling of alienation. in terms of what you re saying, it s a winning political issue, it speaks volumes about the nation. the fact that data cited from the report from jama, right, isn t about loud racists. it isn t about people running around with hoods on their heads, white sheets over their heads. it s about those who are indifferent, who are silent in the face of these assaults. so it s a winning issue because it s appealing to not only people s fears and grievances and hatreds, it s also taking advantage of people s indifference. the state of the country is not just simply because of loud racists, it s because of those who are content with their way
of fear and paranoia. there is a generalized state of fear and paranoia. that combines with being awash with guns, combines with politicians who are exploiting our fears and grievances and hatreds. it feels as if the nation has become unhinged. there is a kind of madness at the heart of who we are. you add to that vigilantism, right? we have already been debating whether or not police are using legitimate force when it comes to particular communities. you are taking the states of fear and paranoia and you are adding guns, open carry state and the like. people are just acting, shooting, and killing. what you get is this sense of madness that is overwhelming the country. what is so fundamentally upsetting is not the fact that people are engaging in this, it is those of us who sit around and let it happen. those of us who are waiting for it to happen in our