“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.”
–Rep. John Lewis
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“This is not going to work.”
— Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams, Jacksonville Sheriff Says He’s At A Loss On How To Provide Security For GOP Convention
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“The scary thing about a post-Trump GOP is the prospect that it learns nothing, After getting pasted in 2006 and 2008, the GOP adopted an obstructionist posture during the Obama years. The more disaffected voters were during the Great Recession, the better this strategy worked. It is all too conceivable that the post-Trump GOP changes itself not at all. It can count on the vagaries of partisan politics in the United States to eventually inherit political power once again.”
— Daniel Drezner, If Trump loses and drags down Mitch McConnell — expect the GOP to get even scarier
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“People tend to be shuffling very quickly between denial and fatalism. That’s really not helpful. There are a number of things that can be done. What I would hope is that this marks a point when the United States finally wakes up and realizes that this is a pandemic and starts taking it serious.”
— Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, ‘The virus doesn’t care about excuses’: US faces terrifying autumn as Covid-19 surges
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“One of the reasons I was so devastated by what happened in November 2016 was because, while I knew that he was categorically unfit and incompetent and cruel, I never foresaw that 100% of Republicans in office would just enable him to the extent they have. It’s been horrifying because, in that sense, he’s not the problem. If he were being held to the same standards other people in his position have been held to, if they had cared about the transgressions he’s made, the lines he’s crossed, then he would have been neutralised, at least reined in. But they’ve given him permission to keep going and doubling down.”
— Mary Trump, Mary Trump on her Uncle Donald: ‘I used to feel compassion for him. That became impossible’
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— Nathan Robinson, Democratic Complacency Is Back
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“We need to end the militarization of the police and transfer significant portions of the funding funneled to police forces into our schools and our healthcare facilities.”
— Jamaal Bowman, The Left’s Resurgence Is For Real