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Why A Third Party Alternative To Trump Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
The Gist: As Donald Trump lurches toward a delegate count that would win him the GOP nomination, frightened Republicans have floated yet another alternative plan in the case that he tops the GOP’s 2016 ticket: a third party or independent bid by a respectable conservative who would give voters frustrated by the choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton another option.
Sanders Campaign Files Paperwork To Sue DNC Just Before Deadline
The Gist: The campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially served the Democratic National Committee on Thursday with a lawsuit over the decision to suspend the campaign’s access to voter data after a staffer viewed confidential information back in December.
Trump Responds To Cruz Over Tweet About His Wife: You Started It!
The Gist: After Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tore into Donald Trump on Thursday for attacking his wife, Heidi Cruz, Trump responded with a tweet arguing that Cruz instigated the tiff.
From The Reporter’s Notebook
After North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill that keeps cities from passing anti-discrimination measures, he branded the legislation as an attempt to protect “privacy and etiquette” in bathrooms, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. But progressive groups railed against the measure, and Equality North Carolina wrote that it’s “about more than bathroom access, it’s about fairness in employment, education, and local governance.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Globalization, corporate-friendly trade liberalization … those have never had a presidential candidate behind them, even though they are embraced by a wide slice of the electorate across both parties. There’s also the three term hurdle. Finally there’s just that Trump is so different from conventional candidates that we need to be cautious about applying our conventional, historical rules of thumb. If I were running Hillary Clinton’s campaign I’d go in with the assumption that we’re battling a potentially very formidable candidate who can win. But for us who are watching, it’s important to see that the current available data says that is a long shot. The ‘reshuffle the deck with white working class voters’ idea, specifically, is simply not born out by any of the currently available data.”
Say What?!
“When yoga moves are used in classrooms, students will not say the word ‘Namaste’ nor put their hands to heart center. When coloring during ‘brain breaks,’ Mandala coloring pages will not be used.”
– A Georgia elementary school principal had to apologize after parents freaked out about their children doing yoga in classrooms.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The Jackson trope has been raised elsewhere, and before this election I remember the W years as being considered a bit Jacksonian in foreign policy. BTW, Sean Wilenz’s fine history “The Rise of American Democracy” spends a long time on the Jackson years and Jackson himself. The article shows that voters often don’t really care about policies, only feelings. Although we are not as susceptible to regimented responses as Germany, these comments about Hitler ring frighteningly: “National Socialism was a revulsion by my friends against parliamentary politics, parliamentary debate, parliamentary government–against all the higgling and the haggling of the parties, the parties and the splinter parties, their coalitions, their confusions, and their conniving. It was the final fruit of the common man’s repudiation of ‘the rascals.’ Its motif was, ‘Throw them all out.’ ” And: ” My friends wanted Germany purified. They wanted it purified of the politicians, of all the politicians. They wanted a representative leader in place of unrepresentative representatives. And Hitler, the pure man, the antipolitician, was the man, untainted by ‘politics’ which was only a cloak for corruption.’ ” The quotes are from Milton Mayer’s “They Thought They Were Free”. He is interviewing Germans in the time shortly after the end of WW II. They are describing the way things were before the war.”
Related: Anne Frank’s stepsister said Trump is acting like another Hitler.
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What We’re Reading
Donald Trump has one core philosophy: misogyny. (Slate)
Why do so many brothers work together in the name of terror? (Los Angeles Times)
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