Because it Wants to Replace Him With Someone More Radical Sun Feb 28, 2021 The @nytimes is covering an exploding scandal of a liberal icon. The reporter/paper isn t pulling any punches. I only wish right-wing media outlets covered Mr. Trump with as much journalistic independence as the Times is covering the Cuomo scandal, Pete Wehner tweeted. It s covering a scandal for the same politician that it spent years covering up for. Why is it doing that, read about it in the New York Times. Andrew Cuomo Is Under Fire. Can He Be Defeated? - New York Times The New York City public advocate, Jumaane D. Williams, has had conversations with allies in recent weeks about the possibility of seeking higher office. Party insiders hang on every public utterance of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, searching for signs of her future ambitions.
Also a complete waste of time.
One of the notions that has been tossed around promiscuously in recent months involves restoring America to the concepts on which it was built. The truth is that the American political system was built to have two parties â not more. Though, as I will argue later, we might be better off with fewer, like none at all.
That, of course, is what the founders wanted: no parties at all. There never has been an introductory course on American government that did not include the reading of Federalist No. 10, which talks about factions, âunited and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizensâ â a long way of describing political parties. James Madison, who wrote this entry, deplored factions, and in fact the Era of Good Feelings, which excluded parties, might be thought of to have begun in the last year of the Madison presidency.
A reader cites a joke from âAnnie Hallâ to describe the Republicansâ dilemma.
Feb. 22, 2021
To the Editor:
The old joke retold in âAnnie Hallâ captures the Republican Partyâs dilemma: A guy walks into a psychiatristâs office and says, âDoc, my brotherâs crazy; he thinks heâs a chicken.â The doc says, âWhy donât you commit him?â The guy replies, âI would, but we need the eggs.â
Nearly half a century ago, the Republican establishment, which favors low taxes, limited regulations and free trade, realizing that these policies have limited appeal beyond boardrooms and country clubs, welcomed into the G.O.P. anti-abortion evangelicals, gun-owning single-issue voters and those opposing programs to help African-Americans, gay people and other marginalized Americans. For the following decades, party elites ruled the Republican roost, won elections and pushed their economic platform.
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