This is what you get when you turn a prized God-given democracy into a dystopian billionaire kleptocracy. Pretty graphs.
S&P 500 companies lost a combined $2.4 trillion in stock market value in Thursday's selloff, their biggest one-day loss since the pandemic sent global markets into a tailspin on March 16, 2020.
This New York Times article by David French summarises Trump's worldview:
'By word and deed, Trump treats Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping as his only real peers. Our allies, by contrast, are our subordinates.
It’s as if Putin, Xi and Trump are feudal lords, and each is entitled to his own feudal domain.'
NYT Columnist #DavidFrench: citing JDVance who says, "our people #hate the right people" -- "that's the language of #grievance & #anger. But there's a better way for men - for all of us. It's rooted in #honor, #courage, & #love." #strongertogether #belovedcommunity #lovetrumpshate https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
"America possesses a unique culture, but it does not possess a unique people.
We’re prone to the same sins and flaws as the people of any other nation, and protecting the rights and dignity of our opponents is just not something that comes naturally to us.
It’s a learned behavior, modeled by leaders, and when leaders stop modeling tolerance and decency, Americans are prone to backslide to fear and animosity." #DavidFrench #NYT
"MAGA’s problems extend well beyond the campaign.
In fact, every dysfunction you’ve seen on the far left has emerged on the far right, and the far right hasn’t been repudiated; it’s been empowered.
Dissenting Americans should brace themselves for an assault on free speech, extreme intolerance and a vicious form of cancel culture that includes an avalanche of threats and intimidation." #DavidFrench #NYT
References to the “weirdness” and “abnormality” of MAGA and the Right” from early 2024. #111Words #TimWalz #KamalaHarris #MAGA #TheRightWing #USPolitics #TaylorSwift #NewYorkTimes #RossDouthat #DavidFrench https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/09/references-to-weirdness-and-abnormality.html
None of Trump’s corruption, #DavidFrench?
Florida under #RonDeSantis is a cesspool of patronage, from Ben Sasse to Richard Corcoran and the people they hire to do minimal, mediocre work at exorbitant salaries.
from https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/opinion/maga-movement-trump-election.html
Well well…#DavidFrench at the #NYT has changed his stripes. A positive sign? Let’s hope so.
“Joy Can Do More Than Beat Trump”
This is a good example of Prof. #TimothySnyder’s lesson number 3 for defeating #fascism.
Conservatives should be conservative and see the danger of #Trump.
Thank you #DavidFrench.
Because he has defended religious liberty and pluralism, and the civil liberties of drag queens and LGBTQ families, and has pushed against the authoritarian turn in white evangelicalism in the US, his former church has cancelled him:
"Race and politics trumped truth and grace, and now I’m no longer welcome in the church I loved."
Not to forget: 50%+ of white Christians voted for Trump twice.
#WhiteEvangelicals #Trump #racism #Presbyterian #PresbyterianChurchofAmerica #DavidFrench
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NYT columnist David French 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)
* served as senior counsel to Alliance Defending Freedom
* co-author of Nashville Statement, affirming immorality of homosexuality / transgenderism
* see Wikipedia article for additional information
* illustrates need for vigilance re: sources
* French's associations w. Alliance Defending Freedom, Christian right, anti-LGBTQ+ advocacy of concern
#DavidFrench #NYT #ADF #ChristianRight #LGBQ+ #conservatism #transphobia #homophobia
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NYT columnist David French
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)
* served as senior counsel to Alliance Defending Freedom
* co-author of Nashville Statement, affirming immorality of homosexuality / transgenderism
* see Wikipedia article for additional information
* illustrates need for vigilance re: sources
* French's associations w. Alliance Defending Freedom, Christian right, anti-LGBTQ+ advocacy of concern
#DavidFrench #NYT #ADF #ChristianRight #LGBQ+ #conservatism #transphobia #homophobia
Elie Mystal has been sick, but David French's NYT piece got him out of bed to write on the #DanielPenny charge. "I think Manslaughter is the right charge for Daniel Penny for killing Jordan Neely. Not murder. Not "no crime." And the pro-vigilante squad are ghouls."
#JordanNeely #manslaughter #crime #law #EliMystal #DavidFrench
The hiring of #DavidFrench as a #NewYorkTimes columnist confirms that if you are #LGBTQ or care about queer folks, the Times is your enemy.
