Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I'm not getting my hopes up -- yet -- but it's nice to see some adults in both parties looking like they've had enough.
Moscow Marge is too far, and a negative to her party, no matter what the rubes think and some Republicans are speaking up. Some of the rhetoric of the pro-Palestine protestors is too far, and a net negative to their cause, no matter what the nutters think, and some Democrats are speaking up.
Obviously the adults haven't been able to get control back, but at least it's nice to know they still freakin' exist.
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Political center revolts against fringe, as leaders rebuke Greene, protesters
The political center in both parties is pushing back more against the fringes on the far right and the far left, reflecting the weariness and exasperation with the threats to boot Speaker Mike…thehill.com
I was really encouraged with the coordinated and largely peaceful way in which the police went in and dismantled the protest camps, and peacefully ended the protests. The college year is ending and the students will be returning home for the summer, and the protests will fizzle out.
Unlike the BLM protests in 2020, where the police went in violently attacking the marchers, this time the police went in shut the camps down without using violennce. I'm watching them at UCLA right now, and the difference between now and 2020 is heartening.
Of course Biden isn't going to let the country go up in flames like Trump did. Trump was stoking the violence and the protests because they helped his re-election. It doesn't get more cynical than that.
It also gives the American people a sharp contrast with Trump watching the nation burn, encouraging right wing thugs to go after the protestors, enjoying the violence, and Biden, quietly coordinating the shut down, and clean up, with a minimum of injury. Putting American first.
That's the true meaning of "America First". Nation over party. Making sure the students weren't injured and killed, but shutting down the illegal protests - safely.