Hurricane Beryl slams into Texas
The Washington Post reports this morning, “Hurricane Beryl is approaching western parts of Houston after making landfall near Matagorda, Tex., around 4 a.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.” We’ll come back to that.
Friends who worry that the Democrats’ August convention in Chicago will be a replay of 1968 remember the violent clashes in the streets between Vietnam War protesters and Chicago Police. Things did not go smoothly inside the convention hall either. Lost in their furrowed brows is how the 1968 election turned out after President Johnson bowed out of the presidential race at the end of March that year. Democrats lost. In a landslide.
Take a deep breath and think carefully.
The very public navel-gazing among Democrats overJoe Biden’s capacity for the last ten days has overshadowed the Biden comms team’s flooding social media with attacks on Donald Trump’s Project 2025 plans. The Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025 means to lobotomize government agencies by replacing mission-driven, career civil servants with far-right ideologues loyal to Dear Leader. Remember how well that worked during the Iraq occupation?
Stewards of Social Security, Medicare, and Veterans Administration benefits in a second Trump administration, people charged with everything from managing the nation’s nuclear arsenal to delivering accurate crop and — this is timely — hurricane forecasts will be Trump-bots working from a Christian nationalist playbook prepared by Trump loyalists.
I don’t know what Biden is going to do in the next week or so. But I hope Democrats will put out the fires in their hair before asking him to do his LBJ imitation.
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