Nixon had just taken office in Jan of 1969 -- after a year in which we lost Dr. King and RFK. And "riots" all over American cities. Talk about burning. I will never forget that Chicago convention. The nation was ripping apart in many ways. Woodstock, Cambodia, and Kent State would be up ahead.
In March of that year, Peter, Paul and Mary appeared on the Smothers' Brothers weekly show and did this song. Not one of their better known ones -- but one that I remember seeing and never forgetting -- and which came rushing back this week. Samson in the ballroom temple.
There is more of us than them if we vote with discipline.
The GOP is supremely confident in its WDS efforts—wedge, demoralize and suppress. They use that acronym. They think they can shave 5% - 10% off the Dem vote total with these efforts.
Voting no matter what and voting blue no matter who has never been more important.
Thank you so much for introducing Garrett Graff to Hopium. I was intrigued enough to subscribe to his newsletter. Watched the video live, and will watch again.
Do you think the demolition crews followed OSHA protocol on asbestos mitigation? And surely that building is full of lead paint! I hope all the staff is protected, but the rest of them, well, I won't cry if they suffer ill effects from that!
Sounds like they’re planning a war with Venezuela without setting up the pretense like Bush did with Iraq. Part of me thinks it’s to help his abysmal approval numbers, but I don’t think the American people are interested in another war. A portion of MAGA is isolationist, e.g. Marjorie Taylor Greene. I don’t know if he’d lose them over a war in Venezuela, but it’s just more cracks.
It was residual 9/11 trauma and an entire disinformation campaign that allowed Bush to make the war popular. Trump keeps forgetting the part of authoritarianism that requires work.
Enjoyed the conversation with Garrett Graff but I have a concern. When the "actuarial event" of Trump's inevitable demise occurs, there may be no leader who can take his place but there will be thousands upon thousands of armed thugs (excuse me "ICE/DHS professionals)with a vested interest in the status quo. How are we going to deal with them, do you think?
A great conversation. Just signed up for his newsletter. Thank you for bringing him to our community today. Today's post is going into my saved file to listen to again.
OTOH, here's how Trump can stay Prez after 2028: Two ways. 1. He runs as VP w JD or another Rep candidate for Pres. They win and the GOP presidential winner resigns after the inauguration. Trump becomes Pres without having been "elected" which the 22nd Amendment prohibits.
2. GOP wins the House and the Presidency in 2028. Rep's elect Trump Speaker of the House, the Rep Pres and VP both resign after the inauguration and Trump becomes President. Again.
China celebrates (yet again), Americans suffer (yet again). Fun stuff, eh?
Gary, love you, but I do not believe we should amplify or engage in this conversation. It is a pysop. They need people to think he is strong, staying for ever, not in decline and failing or a lame duck. They need to keep everyone in line. Our goal is to win 2025 and 2026, keep mitigating damage, not making him strong but weak. Be careful here.
I will not put any names to anything here, but Americans have been divided into to two camps -- with the majority of the most recent judicial appointments favoring the camp of "original intent."
The Framers placed NO term limits on the presidency. And we have some very powerful people in the ranks who are determined to weigh in favor of the Framers rather than the 22nd amendment. (Which was proposed by Republicans in 1947 and ratified in 1951, after FDR exercised the opportunity to run for more than two terms.)
I emphasize that this "divide" will continue long after some key players leave the scene. We just witnessed in the past week or so over a dozen Democrats voting to give a lifetime appointment to a judge who would not affirm who won the 2020 election. This is going to stay with us.
You are asking someone who accepts the amendment. We need to really hear from those who do not. Like the judges being confirmed to lifetime appointments.
Can anyone imagine how awesome those Lincoln-Douglas debates must have been? And they were for a position Lincoln ended up losing. That's what makes these times so exciting.
OTOH, Trump continues to decline, but manages to hang on through the mid-terms. The Democrats win the House handily and control the Senate win a one-vote margin.
In early 2027, Trump can no longer continue in office. Vance becomes President and nominates one odious replacement after another. The Democrats steadfastly vote them down. The office of the Vice President remains open for the rest of the term, with Speaker Jeffries next in line for nearly two years.
Not sure why you're posting this. T is not eligible to run for VP nor can he succeed as speaker of the house, in the far-fetched instance that he would be elected.
TRUMPERY.. WE NEED YOUR HELP. Part of the effectiveness of this regime’s propaganda has been dropping names for things that have caught on and deflected blame. The best of these has been “Obamacare” (footage has resurfaced recently showing how many Americans don’t know that the ACA actually IS “Obamacare”). We need a good wordsmith. I know they tried substituting the “Big Bad Bill) but that was using their playground and it didn’t work. Now he’s got “tren de Aragua” to justify every separation of a migrant child from their deported parent, the repelling down to a building in Chicago and the bombing if boats adjacent to Venezuela. WE NEED A FEW SIMPLE PHRASES used over and over. One possibility is the word TRUMPERY - look it up in the dictionary. Describes the crazy thing in the White House PERFECTLY. We maybe need to start throwing around “TRUMPERY”. ALOT. It’s just sitting there waiting for us. What’s this bill? More TRUMPERY. The plane for Noem? TRUMPERY. Destruction of the White House- right. TRUMPERY.
“Actuarial event” Splendid phrase! Thank you, Simon, for letting us enjoy Garrett Graff.
Self reporting on my own locally intense week:
Tuesday the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors were scheduled to consider a resolution sprung to support 47’s declaration of October 14 as a day of recognition of that great Patriot and defender of the First Amendment, Mr. Charlie Kirk.
So on Monday I worked with some of the Indivisibles to come up with response ideas and wrote a few scripts for the public comments. Tuesday early morning we met with some of the Indivisible troops to share suggestions and engage in mutual empowerment.
At the Board meeting it developed, before we had a chance to speak, that my very own supervisor, for the second time this year, was doing a very thorough gut-and-replace on his colleague’s resolution.
So there was, suddenly, this completely different can of worms to address. Twenty or so of us got up and expressed ourselves anyway. (I stared at those unruly schoolboys, spoke into the microphone for the benefit of the remote audience, and informed them that my retirement hobby is to attend BoS meetings and I did not like the way they were conducting business.)
The Board tabled the resolution; the gutter and the original proposer are supposed to be coming up with a new one for the November meeting…
Tuesday evening I participated in a staff meeting for our online Engage Tuolumne political information online newsletter. (Friday, my short essay on the effects that the federal shutdown is having on the county appeared in the “Alerts” edition.)
Wednesday I reported out on Tuesday’s shenanigans and attempted to establish a meet up with my district Supervisor who has publicly offered to have coffee with any librull that cares to meet with him. So far, no reply from the ADHD pipsqueak.
And yesterday I joined a community gathering (at which neither Supervisor I expected to encounter showed up) to view “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” followed by a discussion about how (whether) the ideas in the documentary could be used to heal political divisions in the community.
Somewhere in there I messaged Schiff and Padilla about their excellent work and MAGAt McClintock about actually talking to Democrats.
Today it is raining lightly on the western face of the Sierra Nevada mountains and snowing up higher. Blessed be!
Wow Emily what you're doing there is so brave and important. Making sure that when local officials pull that pro-authoritarian stuff, they don't get a smooth and easy pathway. Also, even though you're in a minority in your area, every voter you help convince still matters in a statewide election.
Thanks John. The actual MAGA banners are disappearing from the flagpoles…. We have a wazoola of folks who depend on MediCal and SNAP and stand to have benefits curtailed and oh those grocery prices, not to mention the decimation of Chinese Camp in the Complex Fires with no FEMA in sight to help with toxic cleanup…
That’s good news! I was really worried he was not going to do it but he hinted that he might in the last interview I heard so this is excellent. Thanks for voting on day one!
Simon, thank you for all the great interviews! Off topic here, but I’ve just become aware of a new boycott movement that’s gaining momentum, similar to the grassroots Disney boycott that got that huge corporation to reverse course on the Kimmel cancellation. (Maybe I’m the only one here who just heard about this.)
Those of us who have Spotify Premium subscriptions, cancel them. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. So are other corporations, but this new boycott movement is focusing on Spotify so that we channel our cancellations into one awful company for the greatest impact.
I just canceled my Spotify Premium subscription that I’ve had for many years. Spotify asked why I was canceling, and I wrote the following:
“Spotify is running ads for ICE recruitment. That is a bridge too far-Spotify is actively assisting in the horrifying ICE raids in American cities where people of color, even American citizens, are being disappeared with zero due process. Thus Spotify is supporting this authoritarian regime. Shame on you!!!”
I urge all Hopium community members who have Premium subscriptions to do the same!
Lisa This is big news. I don't have Spotify but I'd like to alert people. Is there a link where you heard/read about this boycott. I need sources. Then I can pass this along. Thank you!!
I’ve heard about this new boycott from several pro-democracy people I follow on Substack, most recently (late yesterday) from the fabulous Jess Craven (her Substack is Chop Wood Carry Water). Jess is my other hope-combined-with-action Substack poster, along with Simon 😊
I just searched on Google, and here’s an article that describes the boycott:
There’s been a push for a while to boycott Spotify from musicians and music fans because, among other things, Spotify pays musicians whose songs are on Spotify paltry sums. So this new boycott push for its ICE ads adds to the previous boycott effort.
Perfect. thank you. I read Jess every day... and I didn't read yesterday. (I think I might be taking a break. well- except that I just listened to Garret Graff and it gave me good perspective). Anyway, thank you. I'm on it.
I'm on most Indivisible zooms and get the alerts. As of Thursday afternoon, Ezra and Leah were saying that Spotify MIGHT be the next target, but when it's announced they need a sudden surge of cancellations, not gradual. They wanted to know what people thought about Spotify being the next target since it fit the criteria and is taking money for ICE hiring ads. They also said to watch for boycott alerts in the holiday shopping season.
Lisa, did you see a Spotify boycott announcement from a coalition leading organization? Indivisible has not made the announcement.
Thanks for the clarification Rachel. No, I haven’t seen an announcement from an organization, just the suggestion to boycott Spotify from various people I follow on Substack and other platforms.
A friend of mine told me she canceled her Spotify Premium account for the same reason two weeks ago, and that she had also heard about an effort to boycott Spotify. So this must be more of an organic grassroots effort than a coordinated one by a leading group.
I can imagine it had to bubble up from somewhere, but I will not amplify cancelling till there's a big call for it. It mattered that Disney lost 1.7M subscribers in only a few days after a call went out to cancel. When we cancel in my home, I want Spotify or other target to know that an announcement went out and a massive number of people acted. I want companies to know they were chosen and why; I don't want them to wonder or be able to make up explanations.
I agree-I actually wish I had known that Indivisible has been considering a boycott; I would have held off to be part of the big wave of cancellations.
So I amend my suggestion to Hopium subscribers to boycott Spotify - wait until there’s a call from Indivisible to cancel en masse.
I’ve never used Spotify anyway. Their compensation level for musicians was atrocious and I never liked their fee structure. This is just one more reason and I’m glad everybody is participating in this boycott.
I am a paid subscriber, but the video and audio won’t play. Not sure what to do? This is making me not want to subscribe to others on substack—if I’m not able to access content. Don’t know why this happens and how I can find out what to do. Help!
I'm really looking forward to this interview. I do love hearing from historians. I would love to see them utilized by some Dem think tank to prepare to rebuild America and dictator-proof the country once we are in charge in 2028. Thank you for sharing him with us.
Yesterday, my son voted for the first time. We have a contentious mayoral race here in Minneapolis (where the three non-incumbents have banded together as we have ranked choice voting), and I showed him the website I go to for information on local races. Next year, he will cast a vote for Governor Walz, AG Keith Ellison, Rep. Ilhan Omar and (I hope) Peggy Flanagan for Senate as part of our blue wave. He is excited.
Must say the size of the ballroom matches this poor man's ego...way over blown.
Did someone say "ballroom?"
Nixon had just taken office in Jan of 1969 -- after a year in which we lost Dr. King and RFK. And "riots" all over American cities. Talk about burning. I will never forget that Chicago convention. The nation was ripping apart in many ways. Woodstock, Cambodia, and Kent State would be up ahead.
In March of that year, Peter, Paul and Mary appeared on the Smothers' Brothers weekly show and did this song. Not one of their better known ones -- but one that I remember seeing and never forgetting -- and which came rushing back this week. Samson in the ballroom temple.
https://youtu.be/TY-699M7j3g?si=sywUNWR5s5ZMJlvT
There is more of us than them if we vote with discipline.
The GOP is supremely confident in its WDS efforts—wedge, demoralize and suppress. They use that acronym. They think they can shave 5% - 10% off the Dem vote total with these efforts.
Voting no matter what and voting blue no matter who has never been more important.
From what I just read, the government is sending poll watchers, particularly to California and New Jersey. Do not be intimidated. Vote early!
Thank you so much for introducing Garrett Graff to Hopium. I was intrigued enough to subscribe to his newsletter. Watched the video live, and will watch again.
Same, I just subscribed. Really came across as knowledgeable and insightful
Thanks for the great (and hopeful!) interview, Simon!
I'm finishing up my postcards for Virginia voters today.
Rick Wilson has a good YouTube about why it will be important for Dems to tear down the ballroom once we're in power. I agree.
Do you think the demolition crews followed OSHA protocol on asbestos mitigation? And surely that building is full of lead paint! I hope all the staff is protected, but the rest of them, well, I won't cry if they suffer ill effects from that!
Let’s get ahead of that and stop it from being built.
Sounds like they’re planning a war with Venezuela without setting up the pretense like Bush did with Iraq. Part of me thinks it’s to help his abysmal approval numbers, but I don’t think the American people are interested in another war. A portion of MAGA is isolationist, e.g. Marjorie Taylor Greene. I don’t know if he’d lose them over a war in Venezuela, but it’s just more cracks.
It was residual 9/11 trauma and an entire disinformation campaign that allowed Bush to make the war popular. Trump keeps forgetting the part of authoritarianism that requires work.
authoritarian playbook 101: when you lose popular support, start a war!
Oops, there goes his chance for the Nobel Peace Prize!
Enjoyed the conversation with Garrett Graff but I have a concern. When the "actuarial event" of Trump's inevitable demise occurs, there may be no leader who can take his place but there will be thousands upon thousands of armed thugs (excuse me "ICE/DHS professionals)with a vested interest in the status quo. How are we going to deal with them, do you think?
The image of a glass passageway to the ballroom, with the image of Trump viewed from the side -- recalled this, from early 60s TV. (24 sec.)
https://youtu.be/flD-aRMwcjs?si=KxhH1eoMEqPGEd8B
A great conversation. Just signed up for his newsletter. Thank you for bringing him to our community today. Today's post is going into my saved file to listen to again.
Thank you for hosting Garret Graff. This is the 2nd time I have listened to him. He is always great
OTOH, here's how Trump can stay Prez after 2028: Two ways. 1. He runs as VP w JD or another Rep candidate for Pres. They win and the GOP presidential winner resigns after the inauguration. Trump becomes Pres without having been "elected" which the 22nd Amendment prohibits.
2. GOP wins the House and the Presidency in 2028. Rep's elect Trump Speaker of the House, the Rep Pres and VP both resign after the inauguration and Trump becomes President. Again.
China celebrates (yet again), Americans suffer (yet again). Fun stuff, eh?
Gary, love you, but I do not believe we should amplify or engage in this conversation. It is a pysop. They need people to think he is strong, staying for ever, not in decline and failing or a lame duck. They need to keep everyone in line. Our goal is to win 2025 and 2026, keep mitigating damage, not making him strong but weak. Be careful here.
I will not put any names to anything here, but Americans have been divided into to two camps -- with the majority of the most recent judicial appointments favoring the camp of "original intent."
The Framers placed NO term limits on the presidency. And we have some very powerful people in the ranks who are determined to weigh in favor of the Framers rather than the 22nd amendment. (Which was proposed by Republicans in 1947 and ratified in 1951, after FDR exercised the opportunity to run for more than two terms.)
I emphasize that this "divide" will continue long after some key players leave the scene. We just witnessed in the past week or so over a dozen Democrats voting to give a lifetime appointment to a judge who would not affirm who won the 2020 election. This is going to stay with us.
C’mon. How does originalism trump an amendment when the original Constitution allowed for amendments?
You are asking someone who accepts the amendment. We need to really hear from those who do not. Like the judges being confirmed to lifetime appointments.
Can anyone imagine how awesome those Lincoln-Douglas debates must have been? And they were for a position Lincoln ended up losing. That's what makes these times so exciting.
OTOH, Trump continues to decline, but manages to hang on through the mid-terms. The Democrats win the House handily and control the Senate win a one-vote margin.
In early 2027, Trump can no longer continue in office. Vance becomes President and nominates one odious replacement after another. The Democrats steadfastly vote them down. The office of the Vice President remains open for the rest of the term, with Speaker Jeffries next in line for nearly two years.
Not sure why you're posting this. T is not eligible to run for VP nor can he succeed as speaker of the house, in the far-fetched instance that he would be elected.
TRUMPERY.. WE NEED YOUR HELP. Part of the effectiveness of this regime’s propaganda has been dropping names for things that have caught on and deflected blame. The best of these has been “Obamacare” (footage has resurfaced recently showing how many Americans don’t know that the ACA actually IS “Obamacare”). We need a good wordsmith. I know they tried substituting the “Big Bad Bill) but that was using their playground and it didn’t work. Now he’s got “tren de Aragua” to justify every separation of a migrant child from their deported parent, the repelling down to a building in Chicago and the bombing if boats adjacent to Venezuela. WE NEED A FEW SIMPLE PHRASES used over and over. One possibility is the word TRUMPERY - look it up in the dictionary. Describes the crazy thing in the White House PERFECTLY. We maybe need to start throwing around “TRUMPERY”. ALOT. It’s just sitting there waiting for us. What’s this bill? More TRUMPERY. The plane for Noem? TRUMPERY. Destruction of the White House- right. TRUMPERY.
Bull-trump…
LOVE THIS> Trumpery!!! "worthless nonsense". It's perfect.
“Actuarial event” Splendid phrase! Thank you, Simon, for letting us enjoy Garrett Graff.
Self reporting on my own locally intense week:
Tuesday the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors were scheduled to consider a resolution sprung to support 47’s declaration of October 14 as a day of recognition of that great Patriot and defender of the First Amendment, Mr. Charlie Kirk.
So on Monday I worked with some of the Indivisibles to come up with response ideas and wrote a few scripts for the public comments. Tuesday early morning we met with some of the Indivisible troops to share suggestions and engage in mutual empowerment.
At the Board meeting it developed, before we had a chance to speak, that my very own supervisor, for the second time this year, was doing a very thorough gut-and-replace on his colleague’s resolution.
So there was, suddenly, this completely different can of worms to address. Twenty or so of us got up and expressed ourselves anyway. (I stared at those unruly schoolboys, spoke into the microphone for the benefit of the remote audience, and informed them that my retirement hobby is to attend BoS meetings and I did not like the way they were conducting business.)
The Board tabled the resolution; the gutter and the original proposer are supposed to be coming up with a new one for the November meeting…
Tuesday evening I participated in a staff meeting for our online Engage Tuolumne political information online newsletter. (Friday, my short essay on the effects that the federal shutdown is having on the county appeared in the “Alerts” edition.)
Wednesday I reported out on Tuesday’s shenanigans and attempted to establish a meet up with my district Supervisor who has publicly offered to have coffee with any librull that cares to meet with him. So far, no reply from the ADHD pipsqueak.
And yesterday I joined a community gathering (at which neither Supervisor I expected to encounter showed up) to view “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” followed by a discussion about how (whether) the ideas in the documentary could be used to heal political divisions in the community.
Somewhere in there I messaged Schiff and Padilla about their excellent work and MAGAt McClintock about actually talking to Democrats.
Today it is raining lightly on the western face of the Sierra Nevada mountains and snowing up higher. Blessed be!
Wow Emily what you're doing there is so brave and important. Making sure that when local officials pull that pro-authoritarian stuff, they don't get a smooth and easy pathway. Also, even though you're in a minority in your area, every voter you help convince still matters in a statewide election.
Thanks John. The actual MAGA banners are disappearing from the flagpoles…. We have a wazoola of folks who depend on MediCal and SNAP and stand to have benefits curtailed and oh those grocery prices, not to mention the decimation of Chinese Camp in the Complex Fires with no FEMA in sight to help with toxic cleanup…
yes, wow!
Voted early today on the first day of voting in NYC! It’s a beautiful day and yesterday Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Mamdani! Gift link:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/nyregion/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani-endorsement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.IhkM.PNH5JX60iJ_A&smid=url-share
That’s good news! I was really worried he was not going to do it but he hinted that he might in the last interview I heard so this is excellent. Thanks for voting on day one!
Simon, thank you for all the great interviews! Off topic here, but I’ve just become aware of a new boycott movement that’s gaining momentum, similar to the grassroots Disney boycott that got that huge corporation to reverse course on the Kimmel cancellation. (Maybe I’m the only one here who just heard about this.)
Those of us who have Spotify Premium subscriptions, cancel them. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. So are other corporations, but this new boycott movement is focusing on Spotify so that we channel our cancellations into one awful company for the greatest impact.
I just canceled my Spotify Premium subscription that I’ve had for many years. Spotify asked why I was canceling, and I wrote the following:
“Spotify is running ads for ICE recruitment. That is a bridge too far-Spotify is actively assisting in the horrifying ICE raids in American cities where people of color, even American citizens, are being disappeared with zero due process. Thus Spotify is supporting this authoritarian regime. Shame on you!!!”
I urge all Hopium community members who have Premium subscriptions to do the same!
Lisa This is big news. I don't have Spotify but I'd like to alert people. Is there a link where you heard/read about this boycott. I need sources. Then I can pass this along. Thank you!!
Hi Kate,
I’ve heard about this new boycott from several pro-democracy people I follow on Substack, most recently (late yesterday) from the fabulous Jess Craven (her Substack is Chop Wood Carry Water). Jess is my other hope-combined-with-action Substack poster, along with Simon 😊
I just searched on Google, and here’s an article that describes the boycott:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/why-people-online-calling-boycott-155434966.html
There’s been a push for a while to boycott Spotify from musicians and music fans because, among other things, Spotify pays musicians whose songs are on Spotify paltry sums. So this new boycott push for its ICE ads adds to the previous boycott effort.
Hope that’s helpful!
Lisa
Perfect. thank you. I read Jess every day... and I didn't read yesterday. (I think I might be taking a break. well- except that I just listened to Garret Graff and it gave me good perspective). Anyway, thank you. I'm on it.
Thanks Kate for spreading the word!
I'm on most Indivisible zooms and get the alerts. As of Thursday afternoon, Ezra and Leah were saying that Spotify MIGHT be the next target, but when it's announced they need a sudden surge of cancellations, not gradual. They wanted to know what people thought about Spotify being the next target since it fit the criteria and is taking money for ICE hiring ads. They also said to watch for boycott alerts in the holiday shopping season.
Lisa, did you see a Spotify boycott announcement from a coalition leading organization? Indivisible has not made the announcement.
Thanks for the clarification Rachel. No, I haven’t seen an announcement from an organization, just the suggestion to boycott Spotify from various people I follow on Substack and other platforms.
A friend of mine told me she canceled her Spotify Premium account for the same reason two weeks ago, and that she had also heard about an effort to boycott Spotify. So this must be more of an organic grassroots effort than a coordinated one by a leading group.
I can imagine it had to bubble up from somewhere, but I will not amplify cancelling till there's a big call for it. It mattered that Disney lost 1.7M subscribers in only a few days after a call went out to cancel. When we cancel in my home, I want Spotify or other target to know that an announcement went out and a massive number of people acted. I want companies to know they were chosen and why; I don't want them to wonder or be able to make up explanations.
I agree-I actually wish I had known that Indivisible has been considering a boycott; I would have held off to be part of the big wave of cancellations.
So I amend my suggestion to Hopium subscribers to boycott Spotify - wait until there’s a call from Indivisible to cancel en masse.
Thanks Rachel.
I’ve never used Spotify anyway. Their compensation level for musicians was atrocious and I never liked their fee structure. This is just one more reason and I’m glad everybody is participating in this boycott.
I am a paid subscriber, but the video and audio won’t play. Not sure what to do? This is making me not want to subscribe to others on substack—if I’m not able to access content. Don’t know why this happens and how I can find out what to do. Help!
Try googling it. That's what I do when I have tech issues and I can usually solve my problem. If that fails, I ask one of my three Gen Z kids!
no audio sometimes happens to me. copy the link you opened up that's not working and paste into a browser. always has worked for me
Thanks!
I'm really looking forward to this interview. I do love hearing from historians. I would love to see them utilized by some Dem think tank to prepare to rebuild America and dictator-proof the country once we are in charge in 2028. Thank you for sharing him with us.
Yesterday, my son voted for the first time. We have a contentious mayoral race here in Minneapolis (where the three non-incumbents have banded together as we have ranked choice voting), and I showed him the website I go to for information on local races. Next year, he will cast a vote for Governor Walz, AG Keith Ellison, Rep. Ilhan Omar and (I hope) Peggy Flanagan for Senate as part of our blue wave. He is excited.