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Tue Nov 12, 2024, 03:08 PM Nov 12

A Deeply Dangerous Moment

A Deeply Dangerous Moment

November 12, 2024 at 10:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/12/a-deeply-dangerous-moment/

"SNIP..............

David Remnick: “An American retreat from liberal democracy—a precious yet vulnerable inheritance—would be a calamity. Indifference is a form of surrender. Indifference to mass deportations would signal an abnegation of one of the nation’s guiding promises.”

“Vladimir Putin welcomes Trump’s return not only because it makes his life immeasurably easier in his determination to subjugate a free and sovereign Ukraine but because it validates his assertion that American democracy is a sham—that there is no democracy. All that matters is power and self-interest. The rest is sanctimony and hypocrisy. Putin reminds us that liberal democracy is not a permanence; it can turn out to be an episode.”

.............SNIP"

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