Thursday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Thursday, October 24, 2024
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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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It never ceases to shock me that Trump’s comparison of 1/6 rioters to the ww2 Japanese-American internment camps wasn’t a bigger deal. 1/6 was not a day of love.
Obviously Japanese-Americans are angry, but you know, immigrants, amirite?
Oh shoot
Gun control Democratic style.
@Bill Jempty: Democrat sure, but Kunce is also, a gun owner and Second Amendment supporter. Or rather a supporter of the 2nd amendment as interpreted by the gun lobby starting in the late 70’s. Before that we had sane restrictions on gnus, especially in public, that was “discovered” to be unconstitutional after 200 years of sanity.
My take away from this story and others like it that highlight how common unintended discharges of a firearm really are, is that the current interpretation of the 2nd, brought about by reactionary conservatives (talk about a oxymoron) is well and truly nuts.
We’re getting a new roof on the house today and it goes without saying that the first language of the crew isn’t English. Prime candidates for a trumpian repatriation, with a stop at a trumpville internment camp.