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The Right and the Left Are Teaming Up to Lie About the Stimulus Bill Intelligencer 12/23/2020 © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Power to the people! Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Populism is a term many people have seized upon to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon. But the definition of populism has always been somewhat hazy, and the Trump era has had a dearth of concrete policy fights that could be explained as an expression of the president’s populism. During the Russia and Ukraine scandals, you could sort of discern ad hoc populist coalitions defending Trump against the national secur...

© Greg Nash Dictionary.com weighed in on the hashtag #LetThemEatCake as the phrase trended on Twitter after Congress reached an agreement on a coronavirus relief bill after months of stalled negotiations.  Dictionary.com’s Twitter account tweeted out the definition and origin of the phrase “Let them eat cake” as Twitter users criticized congressional leaders for the package, which offered less in direct payments than March’s CARES Act.  "'Let them eat cake,' while often attributed to Marie Antoinette, first appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'The Confessions' in 1782," Dictionary...

Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap? Despite Newsome’s yeoman efforts at the French Laundry, California’s case count continues to skyrocket. rate and wonder what’s behind it.

Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Democrats in Disarray “Stimulus talks could spill into weekend as lawmakers scramble to complete deal” [WaPo]. “Negotiators have cited significant progress in recent days as talks accelerated. Senior lawmakers aimed to unveil legislation as soon as Thursday. While several difficu...

Show more of you. on one level democrats are in their weakest position nationally in recent memory. they lost the white house and failed to earn either chambers of congress. and just 17 democratic governors nationwide. but what makes this moment so odd politically is that on the other level the incoming republican president is extremely weak himself. donald trump's favorability is lower than any president in modern polling. he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, 2 percentage points. and there's a cia investigation that the russians hacked to help him win. how would republicans be actin...