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"Berlusconi is there because others have failed." These words by Italian columnist Massimo Franco were made to the Washington Post in 2018, shortly before the
There is a divide between what the american people want, republicans and democrats, and what they are able to get, increasingly out of the government. so we have to remain vigilant on the gun safety issue. but at root, it's really a democracy problem. the people's voices have been squeezed out of their own democracy. because of partisan and racial gerrymandering. because of the outsize impact of dark money in our politics. and we've got to get the people their voices back. if the people's voices are heard, i think democrats, republicans, and independents. if we get the gun issue out of the cul...
Work -- or at least to continue the conversations that we need to have over the next few days within our caucus about what we have to do. here is the thing, 87% of americans, according to a fox news poll, believe that there ought to be universal background checks. americans are closer on this issue left and right what's reflected and what we have been able to get done in our government. there's an increasing chasm between what the people want and what they can get from their own government. so this is at root of democracy problem. it's a spiritual problem. i won't rest until we get something d...
Minority, majority rule stuff. that is baked into the way government works, means that just showing up and voting isn't enough. and i think one of the lessons that people need to understand when they think about, you know, 70 80% of americans hate this outcome. 70 to 80% of americans hates the outcome of a gun case yesterday. it is not a 1 to 1 correlation between getting out and voting. this requires massive, massive democracy reform. and it requires, kind of, staring at a supreme court that, in shelby county, in brnabic, in all the gerrymandering cases, vote suppression cases. and increasing...
Priority for adam silver. chinese broadcasters and team owners have joined the nba family in recent years. in other words canceling all-star game because you don't like the transgender bathroom law is about principle pointing out china has a democracy problem, is apparently a problem. shannon: thanks very much. what about the accusations that critics of the nba are hypocrites in this case? here is former nba star charles barkley. >> all these -- they do that. colin kaepernick for the last three years. give me a break. >> let's talk about brett mc