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The Case for a Shadow Cabinet

Kenny Stancil The American Prospect
High-energy progressives can provide a compelling daily account of everything going wrong and coordinate opposition to the Trump-Musk nightmare...a daily press conference, held on Capitol Hill or at televised town halls across the United States.

Republicans Prepare To Gut Medicaid

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
Republicans West Virginia helped put in power are preparing to impose savage cuts on a program that has literally been a lifeline for many in the state, in order to help offset the cost of huge tax cuts for high-income Americans... Populism!

The Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
Wake up: Trump has fundamentally reshaped the electorate. This is good news for the fight against MAGA fascism.

Young Voters Will Transform Even the Reddest States

Ed Kilgore New York Magazine
There’s a new demographic wave — a tsunami, really — forming in the not-so-distant future that could finally break the recent pattern of partisan gridlock. The youth cohorts growing up right now are just dramatically different from their predecessors

Mississippi Used Welfare Money To Pay Brett Favre

Ken Dilanian and Laura Strickler NBC News
The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex and a former pro wrestler in a scandal that has rocked Mississippi.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars - November 12, 2019

Portside
Understanding the Bolivia Coup, Trump's Violent Movement, Flipping Red States, Left Electoral Discussion, How the GOP Courts Black Voters, Processing the Disaster, Scabs and Scabbing, Trumpified Courts, The Winning Finger
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