INCO applauds President Biden for his statement about the attack against Donald Trump: "There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
"Whoever is to blame for the attempted killing of Donald Trump is beside the point. The shooting of Trump should be condemned. Gun violence should be condemned. There is something deeply wrong with America right now. Trump was a victim today, but we are all the victims of the political violence that has proliferated in rhetoric and now, reality. The political atmosphere that birthed this attempt on a former president’s life has infected us all. If it is allowed to continue, we are doomed." -- Lucian Truscott IV,Substack newsletter, July 13, 2024
INSIGHTS FROM THE PAST
INCO recommends historian Timothy Snyder's fascinating July 14 newsletter about political violence. He shares his "thoughts about where we are, based on assassinations during the interwar period, the 1920s and 1930s. It is distant enough that perhaps we can attend to the examples without too much emotion, and yet close enough to be useful."
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GOOD NEWS FOR DEMOCRACY
INCO recommends Democracy Docketfor its informative newsletters and website.
PROJECT 2025: THE GOP'S ANTI-DEMOCRACY BLUEPRINT
"The crucial thing to understand about Project 2025 is that it is not small-government conservatism. It is big-government authoritarianism. While some agencies – the Department of Education and Department of Commerce, for example – would be eliminated, most would be pressed into service to create a Christian Nationalist state in which any non-Christian (or non-conservative-Christian) is rendered a second-class citizen." -- Jay Michaelson,The Forward, July 11, 2024
INDIVISIBLE'S WARNING
"If Trump wins and Republicans control Congress, here are just a few things they plan to do:
Fire thousands of government employees and install Trump loyalists
Dismantle the Department of Education, turn federal education funding into religious school vouchers, and end civil rights protections
Eliminate the National Weather Service
Ban abortion and instruct the FDA to reverse its approval of life-saving drugs like mifepristone and emergency contraception
End carbon emissions rules and give free reign to big polluters from the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
Abolish same-sex marriage and other LGBTQI+ rights
Privatize Medicare
And begin mass deportations of millions of people
"Speaker Johnson was one of the key players in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election – and he will do everything in his power to turn Trump's extremist wish list into law.
"Project 2025 will essentially make our country an autocratic regime at odds with everything the United States embodies – freedom, opportunity, and democracy. It is an outright power grab intent on destroying the separation of powers and undermining checks and balances in government."
"Optimism isn't a belief that things will automatically get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better." -- Melinda Gates
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