{"id":278,"date":"2016-11-16T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2016\/11\/16\/essential-reading-this-week\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T03:31:00","slug":"essential-reading-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2016\/11\/16\/essential-reading-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential reading this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essential reading of the last two weeks:<\/p>\n

(1)
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<\/a> What to Do About Trump? The Same Thing My Grandfather Did in 1930s Vienna.<\/a>
\nFrom Tablet<\/i>. An excerpt:
\n“Treat every poisoned word as a promise. When a bigoted blusterer tells you he intends to force members of a religious minority to register with the authorities\u2014much like those friends and family of Siegfried\u2019s who stayed behind were forced to do before their horizon grew darker\u2014believe him. Don\u2019t try to be clever. Don\u2019t lean on political intricacies or legislative minutia or historical precedents for comfort. Don\u2019t write it off as propaganda, or explain it away as just an empty proclamation meant simply to pave the path to power. Take the haters at their word, and assume the worst is imminent.”<\/p>\n

(2)<\/p>\n

Phillip Howell, November 10 at 12:36pm, via Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not all Trump supporters are racist, misogynist, xenophobes. All Trump supporters saw a racist, misogynist, xenophobe and said “this is an acceptable person to lead our country.”<\/i>
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<\/i> You may not have racist, misogynist, xenophobic intent, but you have had racist, misogynist, xenophobic impact. Impact > intent.<\/i>
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<\/i> So when you get called racist, misogynist, and xenophobic — understand that your actions have enabled racism, misogyny, and xenophobia in the highest halls of our federal government, regardless of why you voted for him.<\/i>
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<\/i> You have to own this. You don’t get to escape it because your feelings are hurt that people are calling you names. You may have felt like you had no other choice; you may have felt like he was genuinely the best choice for reasons that had nothing to do with hate. But you have to own what you have done: you have enabled racism, misogyny, and xenophobia.<\/i>
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<\/i> Impact > intent. Always.<\/i><\/p>\n

(3)<\/p>\n

A Democratic Opposition<\/a>
\nBy George Packer, The New Yorker<\/i>
\nAn excerpt:
\n“President Donald Trump should be given every chance to break his campaign promise to govern as an autocrat. But, until now, no one had ever won the office by pledging to ignore the rule of law and to jail his opponent. Trump has the temperament of a leader who doesn\u2019t distinguish between his private desires and demons and the public interest. If he\u2019s true to his word, he\u2019ll ignore the Constitution, by imposing a religious test on immigrants and citizens alike. He\u2019ll go after his critics in the press, with or without the benefit of libel law. He\u2019ll force those below him in the chain of command to violate the code of military justice, by torturing terrorist suspects and killing their next of kin. He\u2019ll turn federal prosecutors, agents, even judges if he can, into personal tools of grievance and revenge.”<\/p>\n

(4)<\/p>\n

A t-shirt I saw online:<\/p>\n

“You thought I was a Nasty Woman before? Buckle up, Buttercup.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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