Saturday Tab Clearing
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, November 23, 2024
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- Via WaPo: See if your city is poised to bounce back from the next climate disaster.
- Via WaPo: RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming. Unfortunately, the piece doesn’t have much in the way of data. Still, it does have this line, which is one for our times, “It’s much easier to scare the public than to unscare them.”
- Via The Atlantic is a year-old piece on public health that is quite salient given the Kennedy nomination: How to Lose a Century of Progress.
- Via The Hill: Republicans fume as GOP absences help Democrats move judicial nominees.
- I already noted this piece in another post, but will re-share. By Dan Drezner in Foreign Affairs: The End of American Exceptionalism.
- Via The Des Moines Register: Pollster Ann Selzer ending election polling, moving ‘to other ventures and opportunities’. Note that this was the plan all along, and not in response to her last poll, which was way off.
- Via CNN: Fox hosts, cable news regulars and entertainment pros: Trump is casting a made-for-TV Cabinet. What could go wrong?
- Via LGM: Why do all these Project 2025 guys keep ending up in my administration?
- Via The Hill: Lara Trump launching American-made activewear line: ‘Red, white, and blue never looked so good’. The grift is never-ending.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Response to all of the above…
To quote my dear friend Cracker, it’s a good time to be old.
Le sigh.
All the comments on casting a cabinet make me think of this clip: Because this is not Star Trek!
As for bouncing back from climate disasters, my city is far to the right in the final graphic — resilience much higher than risk. I suppose that means that in-migration to the area will continue unabated.
Perhaps Lara can model her new collection on the Senate floor.
The whole thing with Trump is looking good, looking strong, looking like he’s doing something. It doesn’t matter if he is or not, he just needs to look that way. That’s why he likes the celebrities. They look like they are doing something.
The Gaetz nomination is a case in point. That got a lot of attention. Someone the MAGAs love got nominated. “Take that! Libs and Deep State!”. Then Gaetz withdraws because he’s a distraction. That doesn’t make Trump look bad to them.
He wants everyone making lots of noise about fixing things. It doesn’t matter if they actually make things better, just that there’s news stories about them shaking things up.
Duluth, Minnesota might be a climate change hot spot. Erm, cold spot. Well, snowy spot.
But the summers are lovely. Highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s. Big lake views. Big hill.
And it’s a damn fine town.