If you are a serious student of politics (regardless of your political affiliation), you may wish to read an article that I have just finished.
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The author is a professor at Rutgers University. He is a liberal Democrat.
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Here are just a few of his opinions. (I am just presenting them for your consideration. I am keeping my opinion to myself.)
1. "By finding foreign demons [i.e., the Russians] who can be blamed for Trump's ascendency, the Democratic leadership have shifted the blame for their defeat away from their own policies without questioning any of their core assumptions."
2. The agenda of Mainstream Democrats "has nothing to say about challenging the influence of concentrated capital on policy, reducing the inflated defence [sic] budget or withdrawing from overextended foreign commitments."
3. "Democrat leaders have persuaded themselves (and much of their base) that all the republic needs is a restoration of the status quo ante Trump. They remain oblivious to popular impatience with familiar formulas."
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The article is entitled "What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking" by Jackson Lears in the January 4, 2018, print edition of the British liberal magazine London Review of Books. (I am guessing that it is available online. I am a computer-illiterate senior citizen, so I cannot link to it.)
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The author is a professor at Rutgers University. He is a liberal Democrat.
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Here are just a few of his opinions. (I am just presenting them for your consideration. I am keeping my opinion to myself.)
1. "By finding foreign demons [i.e., the Russians] who can be blamed for Trump's ascendency, the Democratic leadership have shifted the blame for their defeat away from their own policies without questioning any of their core assumptions."
2. The agenda of Mainstream Democrats "has nothing to say about challenging the influence of concentrated capital on policy, reducing the inflated defence [sic] budget or withdrawing from overextended foreign commitments."
3. "Democrat leaders have persuaded themselves (and much of their base) that all the republic needs is a restoration of the status quo ante Trump. They remain oblivious to popular impatience with familiar formulas."
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The article is entitled "What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking" by Jackson Lears in the January 4, 2018, print edition of the British liberal magazine London Review of Books. (I am guessing that it is available online. I am a computer-illiterate senior citizen, so I cannot link to it.)
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