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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Theocratic Republicans are not hiding their agenda [1]

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Date: 2024-06-22  

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet.

New York Times:

Taken together, the measures have signaled the ambition of the governor and the Republican-led Legislature to be at the forefront of a growing national movement to create and interpret laws according to a particular conservative Christian worldview. And Mr. Landry, a Catholic who has been vocal about his faith’s influence in shaping his politics, wants to lead the charge.

Gov. Jeff Landry wants his state to be at the forefront of a national movement to advance legislation with a Christian worldview.

President Biden and former President Trump will pursue very different economic policies if re-elected. In this analysis we assess the macroeconomic consequences of the policies proposed by the candidates. Bottom line, Biden’s policies are better for the economy than Trump’s.… pic.twitter.com/lXt5XkLmk1

Brian Beutler/”Off Message” on Substack:

Why Conceding To Lies About The Economy Is A Big Mistake

It's not just about voter sentiment ahead of the election, it's about what kind of party we want Democrats to be in a post-Trump future.

If we grasp the many ways the Supreme Court as currently constituted is corrupt and illegitimate, we can clarify our thinking about accountability and reform, distant as they seem. If we wrap our heads around what life in a second Trump administration might look like, we can brace for it, and for rebuilding all over again, long as that might take.

So: Not typical media doom and gloom, where the news is always bad, or dark clouds always hover, and not the inverse, where copium flows and things are always better than they seem. This was meant, much like Off Message, to be more like realism undergirded by resilience.

But not every social or economic and political trend is headed in the wrong direction. Confronted with a remarkable run of economic good fortune, as we’ve seen in the past year, we might have probed reasons public sentiment and economic fundamentals had decoupled, and how to align them again. We wouldn’t go looking for obscure metrics to explain why the strong economy is secretly weak. We’d never convince ourselves that sources of promise were merely fools’ gold, in order to align ourselves with the country’s dour mood.

Yet that’s what much of the political establishment has chosen to do—and not just MAGA.

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