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Wall Street Journal
01-08-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
The Natural Response Is ‘Fight, Fight, Fight'
Peggy Noonan advocates a measured response to the political fights of the day in 'Trump Never Says 'No' to a Fight, Fight, Fight' (Declarations, Jul 26). The drip, drip, drip of government growth and progressivism for generations has undermined our society. To think that a measured response to the left's excesses would result in real change defies experience and belief. I hope that President Trump and his ilk are temporary. They and their behavior are a reaction to our mistreatment and should hold power only long enough to move our country back to the center—or maybe a little further right until things balance out. It's about time.
Wall Street Journal
25-07-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Notable & Quotable: How Progressives Define Progress, Then and Now
Ruy Teixeira writing in the Liberal Patriot on Substack, July 24: We are far, far away from the midcentury progressive attitude, which welcomed technological change as the handmaiden of abundance and increased leisure, or, for that matter, from the liberal optimism that permeated the culture of the 1950s and '60s with tantalizing visions of flying cars and obedient robots.
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hogg says he would work with DNC in future despite ‘double standard'
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg said on Wednesday that he is willing to work with the committee despite his June departure, which he characterized as a 'double standard.' 'There's obviously disagreements that we have at the end of the day, but I think that we all still have good relationships,' Hogg told The Hill's Julia Manchester at the Hill Nation Summit. 'I still have, you know, enormous respect for all my fellow vice chairs, the other officers of the DNC.' The progressive activist, who called for primary challenges against Democratic incumbents with the help of his leadership PAC Leaders We Deserve, left the DNC in June after deciding not to run after his election was vacated over a procedural rule about gender diversity. On Wednesday, Hogg called this out as a 'double standard that was selectively enforced.' 'I would argue that what I'm doing is not that different from someone having a leadership PAC that gives against an incumbent,' he added, noting he had no access to donor or voter data that would pose a conflict with his PAC. Hogg, in conversation with Manchester, went on to state that the party, in his view, lacks the 'courage to do bold things' and support for 'competition.' 'I think I will be vindicated in four years,' he added about his departure from the DNC. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
20-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Stacey Abrams doesn't rule out another run for office, says true Christians should espouse progressive views
Failed Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams isn't ruling out a third run for governor of the Peach State, and said in a Tuesday interview that true Christians should have left-leaning views. "I truly have not made any decisions and that is in part because there's an urgency to 2025 that we cannot ignore," Abrams told NPR, concerning whether she'll run again. "My focus right now is on how do we ensure that we have free and fair elections in 2026? There's a lot of hope being pinned on the '26 midterms." Abrams was the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, and lost the 2018 Georgia governor's race to current Gov. Brian Kemp. She also lost to him again in a 2022 rematch. She also told NPR that true Christians should be progressive, and that it was her responsibility to help immigrants and the dispossessed. "I watched my parents live those values that education matters, that faith matters, and that helping people matters," Abrams said. "And for me, those are the values that guide me, my faith first and foremost," she added. "I cannot call myself a Christian and not believe that it is my responsibility to help the stranger, to help immigrants, to help the dispossessed. I cannot say that my faith justifies the venom that has been turned against the LGBTQIA community, the way we have demonized the transgender community. I cannot be a woman of faith who has read the Bible and just conveniently pick the passages I like," Abrams continued. Abrams also decried President Donald Trump's decision to deploy the military in Los Angeles, calling it "a violation of every precept of democratic rule under a civilian leader that we have in this country." In June, Trump sent a battalion of 700 U.S. Marines as well as 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to help quell riots protesting ICE immigration enforcement actions that resulted in violence, including the burning of the American flag and the assault on law enforcement officers. What Abrams found especially upsetting, though, was Trump's executive orders on DEI, including "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity," directing federal agencies to end all DEI practices and asking the private sector to "end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences." "For me, the most important piece, though, was the number of directives, the executive orders that came out at the very beginning against DEI," Abrams said. "And people dismissed it as, 'Oh, well, this is just stopping quotas,' or 'This was an HR thing,'" she added. "But no, he was intentionally setting up a system of belief that the protection of the vulnerable, that the corrective actions this nation has taken for 249 years, that those things were somehow inherently wrong." "And it was designed to allow for the later attacks that we have seen on all of these different communities. Because if you can demonize at the beginning, it becomes a lot easier to dehumanize when it matters," Abrams said.
New York Times
26-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
The Mamdani Earthquake
Good morning. It's Thursday. Today we'll analyze Zohran Mamdani's upset in the Democratic primary and whether his progressive message will resonate beyond New York. The results are not official. Not yet. Under the city's ranked-choice voting system, the Board of Elections still has to do elimination-round tabulations. But Zohran Mamdani's all-but-certain upset reshaped the political landscape locally and perhaps nationally. How did he do it? Mamdani, a democratic socialist, ran up large vote tallies in gentrifying neighborhoods. But he also did well in brownstone-lined blocks of Brooklyn, on diverse blocks in Upper Manhattan and in neighborhoods with substantial South Asian populations in Queens. His apparent defeat of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had led in many polls since he entered the race in March, showed why it's hard to poll before a primary. The aftermath? Cuomo told The New York Times shortly after his concession speech that he was still considering whether to run in November as an independent. He told WCBS-TV on Wednesday that before making a decision, he would take a hard look and see 'what President Trump is going to do. Who knows how he would choose to get involved.' 'It's a national election, not just a New York City election,' the Democratic strategist James Carville said. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
