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Many of Donald Trump's opponents recently became apoplectic after the former president was reported to have told a crowd of supporters that there would be a "bloodbath" if he wasn't elected president. Except that's not what Trump said, notes freelance writer Becket Adams. Not even close. |
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On March 16, Trump told a crowd in Dayton, Ohio, that President Biden's re-election would result in a "bloodbath" for the U.S. auto industry. Trump's phrasing was hyperbolic, but even Merriam-Webster includes "major economic disaster" as a secondary meaning of "bloodbath." That didn't matter to Trump's political opponents. Adams writes that the "Biden campaign, working fist-in-glove with the press, responded at once, accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of threatening a literal massacre should he be denied the White House a second time." Adams says that many in the media seem not to have learned from 2016, when "flooding the airwaves with made-up scandals only" emboldened Trump and his followers and reinforced the Trump narrative that the media was "the enemy of the people" spouting "fake news." If Donald Trump manages to recapture the White House, Adams writes, "it will be because of his opponents' overwhelming incompetence, dishonesty and short-sightedness." "And featuring prominently among those 'opponents' are many members of the news media." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, March 26. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Lauren Jacobs, executive director of PowerSwitch Action |
Uber and Lyft's predatory pricing and deceptive tactics harm all of us. Falsely claiming that wage protections will drive up fares seems to be a tactic to pit drivers against passengers and obscure a massive transfer of wealth to Wall Street. |
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By Joshua Schreier, history professor at Vassar College |
Nineteenth century English evangelicals constituted the first modern movement to establish a Jewish polity in Palestine, and the idea saturated English Protestantism well before it caught on with Jews. |
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The Supreme Court is playing grammar games with people's lives |
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College |
On March 15, the United States Supreme Court severely limited the reach and impact of the 2018 First Step Act, which has been widely praised as the most significant criminal justice reform in decades. It did so in a decision so mind bogglingly technical and complex that it gives life to Charles Dickens's portrait of law as a fog of obscurity in his mid-19th century novel "Bleak House." |
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By Marc Lotter, press secretary to vice presidential nominee Mike Pence during the 2016 campaign |
First things first — regardless of party, people do not vote for the bottom of the ticket. They vote for the presidential candidate. This is not to suggest a VP nominee cannot influence or support a vote for the presidential candidate, but voters do not go into the polls and say, "I'm voting for [insert name] for vice president." |
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