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Joe Biden authorizes ATACMS use deeper in Russia

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/world/biden-g20-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a04.RAkg.TQWpeilBDwoT&smid=url-share

I don’t hate Joe Biden with the heat of 1,000 suns, but if now, why not a year or more ago?

I don’t think history will judge his “institutionalism” kindly. In the same way we don’t look kindly on Obama for thinking he could work with Republicans.

Opinion | Why We Got It So Wrong – The New York Times

David Brooks, every liberal’s favorite conservative:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/opinion/identity-groups-politics.html

«In 2024, Kamala Harris did worse among Black voters than Joe Biden did in 2020. She did worse among female voters. She did much worse among Latino voters. She did much worse among young voters.

She did manage to outperform Biden among two groups: affluent people and white voters, especially white men. If there is one sentence that captures the surprising results of this election, it is this one from the sociologist Musa al-Gharbi: “Democrats lost because everyone except for whites moved in the direction of Donald Trump this cycle.”

Going into this campaign, I did not have that one on my bingo card.»

I stopped reading here:

«In both cases her identity grouping came before her individual qualities.»

But that first bit.