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Emma West Rasmus once saw herself as part of the future of the Democratic Party. But no longer. After a recent trip to Palestine, she writes, "I will now work to ensure it never wins again." |
Rasmus had been a Democrat nearly since birth. "Bill Clinton kissed me at a rally as a baby. I was the head of my high school's Democratic Club," she writes. The Democratic Party would be her political home for 33 years. Rasmus moved to Washington and spent years helping to elect Democrats to office. Now, she's working to defeat Democrats. "The last five months of civilian carnage in Gaza have revealed that the Democratic Party is choosing to remain planted on a bloody, inhumane and immoral side of history," she writes. "I am forever changed by the haunting images of children's lifeless bodies on filthy hospital floors and the stories of people picking the human remains of their loved ones off the ground to have something to bury." Rasmus recently returned from a trip to the West Bank, where she saw the devastating conditions under which Palestinians live there. Now Rasmus has an ultimatum for Democrats: "Unless [they] call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and a lasting end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine," she will not vote for President Biden or another Democrat – "maybe ever again." The question for Biden and other Democrats is: How many Emma West Rasmuses are there? Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, March 12. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Svante Myrick, president of People for the American Way |
With a few well-chosen words in their concurrence, Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Brown Jackson proved that they've sussed out the far-right majority's real agenda hiding behind a public pretense of nonpartisanship. |
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By Alexander Motyl, professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark |
Both imperial Germany and the Soviet empire experienced a humiliating systemic collapse and subsequent economic hardship, political polarization and widespread cultural anomie. Weimar Germany and late-'90s Russia blamed their woes on the democrats who were then in power and welcomed the man on horseback who promised to make them great again. | | |
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Which Supreme Court justices threw Trump the immunity lifeline? |
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By Steven Lubet, Williams Memorial Professor Emeritus at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law |
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's insistence on secrecy has made it impossible to know whether Clarence Thomas has improperly exerted a determinative influence on the court's agenda, in one of the most significant certiorari decisions in history. |
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By Kevin Kosar, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute |
Laws and rules come with costs. Plenty of scholarship has shown that rules can create economic distortions, and spawn unintended consequences and other mischiefs. The more rules we have, the more we need to pay lawyers and jurists to do what we wish to do and sort things out for us. |
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