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Ad will collapse in seconds CLOSE August 4, 2017 08/04/2017 6:43 pm By Ed Kilgore Share No, apostate Democratic governor Jim Justice is not a symbol of the Donkey Partys biggest problem. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

The defection of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice yesterday from the Democratic to the Republican Party will inevitably fuel tired rhetoric about Reagan Democrats, or white-working-class Americans, or heartland voters, leaving the Donkey Party in hordes in protest against its radical bicoastal liberalism. Democrats obviously need to pay attention to voters theyve recently lost or failed to energize, all over the place, and in various demographic categories.

But the Trump Democrat phenomenon may have been a bit oversold. Justice obviously was never much of a Democrat to begin with. And the broader category of Obama-Trump votersthose who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 or 2012, and then for the mogul in 2016may have been misunderstood as well. Or so reports the Washington Posts Dana Milbank:

[N]ew data, and an analysis by AFL-CIO political director Michael Podhorzer that he shared with me, puts all this into question. The number of Obama-to-Trump voters turns out to be smaller than thought. And those Obama voters who did switch to Trump were largely Republican voters to start with. The aberration wasnt their votes for Trump but their votes for Obama.

One problem with the much-discussed idea that Obama-Trump voters swung the election is that voters notoriously over-report votes for the election winner after the election. So some Obama-Trump voter didnt actually vote for Obama, and others didnt actually vote for Trump. (Some may have even voted for everyone other than Obama and Trump). That reduces the magnitude of the flip.

To the extent that Obama-Trump voters were identified as those who voted for the 44th president in either 2008 or 2012, it is important to remember that Obama won pretty big the first time around: according to exit polls, he won 9 percent of self-identified Republicans and 20 percent of self-identified conservatives. He also won independentsa category that includes a lot of people who usually vote Republican52/44.

But theres more than incidental evidence that apparent Obama-Trump voters arent loyal Democrats who suddenly flipped because Trump was appealing to their material or cultural interests: they supported Republicans down-ballot, too:

The AFL-CIOs Podhorzer analyzed raw data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, out in the spring, and found that Obama-Trump voters voted for Republican congressional candidates by a 31-point margin, Republican Senate candidates by a 15-point margin and Republican gubernatorial candidates by a 27-point margin. Their views on immigration and Obamacare also put them solidly in the GOP camp.

If these voters have been lost by the Democratic Party, many of them are probably lost for good.

Milbank concludes: The party would do better to go after disaffected Democrats who didnt vote in 2016 or who voted for third parties. A votes a vote, and in a competitive environment it makes no sense for Democrats to write anyone off. But the obsession with Obama-Trump voters may be myopic.

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Even the Russian Twitter bots have been piling on McMaster over the past week.

Investigators now appear to be looking for evidence that Flynn committed a specific crime.

The obsession with Obama-Trump voters showing the fatal Democratic weakness in 2016 may be based on imaginary party-switchers voting GOP as usual.

He agreed to the terms as part of a plea deal after he was arrested in February at a Knicks home game.

The administration reiterated its commitment to exiting the Paris deal on Friday unless the agreements terms become more favorable to the U.S.

Instead of cracking down on employers who hire the undocumented, some ICE agents are allegedly helping them underpay their immigrant workers.

For all the talk of tax reform, Republicans would prefer to offset tax cuts with spending cuts, and in the end wont insist on offsets at all.

He faces up to 20 years in prison.

But will the GOP leadership allow moderates to make Obamacare work better, when conservative donors want to see it fail?

More resources to sniff out the culprits, and a review of the subpoena policy.

And the one thing that could save him now is terrifying.

TMZ reports a major Hollywood producer has approached the Mooch about a film or TV project.

Stranger things have happened.

Its becoming monotonous to report, but its true: the slow but steady recovery continues, which could help Trump stabilize his shaky popularity.

Conway accused the network of only focusing on the Russia story.

His YA book, The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, comes out this month.

The most recent bizarre Title IX case involves a student whose university told her, despite her protestations otherwise, that she was a victim.

They unveiled two bipartisan bills that would require judicial review of any effort to oust the special counsel.

The Trump Organization drives a hard bargain with the people who protect the president.

Any charges will take months to materialize, but impaneling a grand jury which can issue subpoenas and compel witnesses to testify is a big deal.

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Longtime nurse and union president, Cathy Glasson, is offering a clear vision of how bold, progressive policies can improve the lives of average Iowans. Glasson is exploring the run for governor in a swing state, which in 2016 voted in favor of Trump, but also Obama in 2008 and 2012.

In the following Q&A, Glasson talks universal health care, raising the minimum wage, and how she can improve the life of the average Iowan.

Im exploring a run for Governor because Im tired of watching working people in this state get beat up. The number one job of a Governor is to raise peoples standard of living. Terry Branstad and Kim Reynolds have failed to do that, and I cant sit back and watch it happen.

The facts on the ground are a lot different than the rosy picture Reynolds and the Republican legislature try to paint.

For nearly a third of our families, Iowa really isnt working. 381,000 Iowa households are struggling to pay their bills because two-thirds of the jobs in our state pay less than $20 an hour. Parents working two and three low-wage jobs are still scrambling to come up with $900 each month for childcare, to pay the rent or mortgage, to put food on the table and gas in the car. If you have a health condition on top of that, good luck.

Ive been traveling the state listening to peoples stories, and so many Iowans feel ignored by out-of-touch politicians. Working people in this state are fed up, and they should be. They cant wait for half-measures -- they needed help yesterday.

I believe its time to take bold, progressive steps to dramatically change the quality of life for more than a million Iowans:

As a local union president and organizer, Ive seen what happens when working people come together and demand a seat at the table. I've organized workers at multiple hospitals, and seen the impact on their lives when they can collectively bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions.

The facts are clear: workers with unions make a better wage and have a better standard of living than workers without a union. I want more Iowans to have that. One of my top priorities as Governor will be to make it easier to join unions and employee associations so Iowa workers can fight for a better future. 184,000 public workers in Iowa had their union rights stripped away this year with the gutting of Chapter 20. It was a vicious attack on workers. I would fight to reverse that as Governor.

As an intensive care nurse, Ive fought for healthcare reform for decades. Ive seen what happens to people when they dont have good coverage they end up in intensive care with painful, dangerous, expensive conditions that could have been avoided. Medicaid privatization in Iowa has made things even worse for our healthcare system. We handed over control to profit-driven corporations, and now were wasting taxpayer dollars bribing them to stay in our state. As a nurse, I believe healthcare is a right and holding Iowans' care hostage is wrong.

Since D.C. wont act, states like Iowa should lead the way with our own universal healthcare system.

A $15 minimum wage will help ease thousands of Iowans off of public assistance because theyll be able to afford their basic expenses. It will also pump millions of dollars into local economies because when low-wage workers get a raise, they spend that money right away in their communities in grocery stores, restaurants, shops and gas stations. This means increased revenue for businesses, and more jobs to keep up with demand for goods and services.

Our public schools are struggling and its hurting our kids chances at getting ahead. New jobs in Iowa increasingly require education beyond high school, and college has become unaffordable for working-class and middle-class Iowans. We need to fully fund our public schools all the way from kindergarten through college and make them the top priority in our state budget. We need to make community college tuition free -- its a small investment with a huge payoff. We should freeze tuition at our public universities, and help college students drowning in debt restructure their loans so they can make investments for their families, like buying a car or a home.

I believe clean water is the birthright of every Iowan. We have to work with farmers to keep chemicals and manure from entering our waterways, and then make polluters pay when they damage our water. Corporate agriculture is the only industry exempt from the Clean Water Act, so we need to hold them accountable at the state level. Taxpayers shouldnt have to pay for polluters willful negligence, and Iowans deserve access to clean drinking water, bottom line.

We can only change Iowa if we listen to the voices of more Iowans. We need to reduce barriers to voting so no eligible Iowan is ignored.

First, we need to roll back the new voter ID law. It discriminates against the poor, the elderly, people with disabilities, people of color and college students. Instead of making it harder to vote, we need to expand early voting add more locations and extend the hours so working people have a chance to participate. We should make it easier to vote by mail, instead of reducing the window for absentee voting. We should consider automatic voter registration, because Iowans that are eligible to vote should be able to, period. We also need to join the 47 other states where people with felony convictions who have served their time can get their voting rights restored.

The people in power want to make it harder for every Iowa voice to be heard. Its time for bold, progressive changes to our voting laws to bring more Iowans into our democratic process.

As I talk with Iowans across the state, it's clear to me that people all over are dealing with a lot of the same problems. So many Iowans are struggling to afford their basic expenses, whether theyre in rural Iowa, a city like Des Moines or a small town like Spencer where I grew up. Raising the minimum wage to $15 would have a huge impact all over the state.

People in too many rural communities have to drive absurd distances for medical care. A universal healthcare system would stop rural clinics from closing because the state would ensure providers get paid for services, a major failure of Governor Reynolds privatized Medicaid system.

In rural Iowa, public schools are consolidating. Kids have a long commute to school and underpaid teachers are buying the tools they need out of pocket. Adequate funding for public education would make a big difference for families in rural areas, and making the investment to create jobs in small towns would help keep these schools open by slowing population decline.

In our small communities, some of the best jobs available are in the public sector. We need to make sure those good jobs stick around by restoring public workers collective bargaining rights and putting more people to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. We need to invest in renewable energy in our state not only because its the right thing to do but also because it's a huge job creator, especially in rural Iowa.

Terry Branstad and Kim Reynolds blew the states surplus on giveaways, bonuses, credits and tax breaks for corporations. They paid off their corporate cronies and Iowas children, elderly, people with disabilities, patients and front-line workers paid the price. Branstad and Reynolds cut funding for K-12 schools, universities, mental healthcare, the judicial branch and social services, but left the sweetheart deals for CEOs.

Were now at a point where these tax cuts, tax credits, special deals and exemptions are almost twice as much as the states general fund. Corporate tax giveaways cost Iowans $12 billion and the general fund budget is $7 billion. Its corporate welfare on the backs of working people and it has to stop.

If we end these corporate tax giveaways and demand that profitable companies pay their fair share, we will have the resources to fully fund our public schools, make community college tuition-free, and expand mental health treatment including addressing the opiod crisis, which is spiraling out of control.

Theres a lot of other wasteful spending going on in Des Moines. The Governor and Legislature are bailing out Managed Care Organizations so they dont pull out of privatized Medicaid. They are spending taxpayer dollars on new voter ID cards to address a nonexistent problem. And lets not forget the legal fees Iowa taxpayers are covering as extremist laws that were recently passed are rightfully challenged in court.

We need leaders with the guts to make big changes in our states budget priorities because were headed in a dangerous direction.

(As for Collective Bargaining) Unions and employee associations provide a bridge to the middle class, but this Legislature and Governor decided that isnt as important as taking care of their union-busting corporate donors with deep pockets. As Governor, I will fight to restore and strengthen Chapter 20 for public employees and use every opportunity I can to find new ways to help more working people across Iowa to join unions and employee associations. Ill walk the picket line myself when I need to so that hardworking Iowans finally get the wages and the respect they deserve.

For more on Glasson, visit CathyGlasson.com.

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Historian and Duke University Professor Nancy MacLean, in her very important new book, "Democracy in Chains," alerts Americans to the "single most powerful and least understood threat to democracy today: the attempt by the Billionaire-backed radical right to undo democratic governance." The book was recently recommended by Opra Winfrey.

MacLean is a historian of social movements and their impact on public policy. She became interested in Virginia's decision, made after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, to issue state-subsidized education vouchers for all-white private schools. Her research led to James McGill Buchanan, a professor at George Mason University, who created, in 1956, an academic center with a quiet political agenda: to defeat what he considered a perverted form of liberalism by training a new line of thinkers.

Confidential letters between Buchanan and Charles Koch, from 1997-1998, disclosed Charles Koch's investments, beginning in the 1970s, of millions of dollars in Buchanan's Center for Study of Public Choice Program. It became a research and design center for a project to train operatives to staff far-flung and purposely separate, yet intrinsically connected, institutions funded by the Koch brothers and their large network of fellow wealthy donors.

Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries Inc., is shown in this undated company handout photo. (unk / The Denver Post)

It was not until 2012 that Americans began to sense that something extraordinarily troubling was happening. "In 2011 the new governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, put forth legislation to strip public employees of all their collective bargaining rights, teachers were attacked in New Jersey, large cuts to education occurred in several states with laws to enable unregulated charter schools. In 2011 and 2012 legislators in 41 states introduced more than 180 bills to restrict who could vote and how. The movement went national with an all-out effort to oppose the Affordable Care Act."

Nancy MacLean provides knowledge about the vast plan to destroy American democracy that is moving with shock-and-awe speed. Thirty-three states are already totally controlled by the Republican Party. It is the plan of ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council), as disclosed on their website, to hold a constitutional convention and rewrite the U.S. Constitution to provide governance by and for the billionaires. Saving democracy is up to us. We the people.

Shirley Jin lives in Boulder.

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A future trivia question and historical footnote, the spectacular 10-day flameout of Anthony Scaramucci qualifies as the most entertaining episode yet of the ongoing reality show that is the Trump presidency. (Working title: The Pompadours of 1600 Pennsylvania.) But even as the cocksure sycophants gobsmacking spectacle stole the show, something of real importance took place a bit lower on the radar.

At five separate junctures, the sinews of our democracy held against the careening recklessness of this presidency. Consequently, Donald Trumps worst week proved a particularly fine hour for American democracy:

The military says no to Trump on the transgender ban.

Well, not directly thats insubordination but with rather elegant circumspection. The president tweeted out a total ban on transgender people serving in the military. It came practically out of nowhere. The military brass, not consulted, was not amused. Defense Secretary James Mattis, in the middle of a six-month review of the issue, was reportedly appalled.

What was done? Nothing. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs simply declared that a tweet is not an order. Until he receives a formal command and develops new guidelines, the tweet will be ignored.

In other words, the military told the commander in chief to go jump in a lake. Generally speaking, this is not a healthy state of affairs in a nation of civilian control. It does carry a whiff of insubordination. But under a president so uniquely impulsive and chronically irrational, a certain vigilance, even prickliness, on the part of the military is to be welcomed.

The brass framed their inaction as a matter of procedure. But the refusal carried with it a reminder of institutional prerogatives. In this case, the military offered resistance to mere whimsy. Next time, it could be resistance to unlawfulness.

The Senate saves Sessions.

Trumps relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign. He didnt, in part because of increasing support from Congress. Sessions former colleagues came out strongly in his defense, and some openly criticized the presidents shabby treatment of his first and most fervent senatorial supporter.

Indeed, Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, warned Trump not to fire Sessions because he wouldnt get another attorney general the committees entire 2017 schedule was set and there would be no hearings to approve a new AG. That was a finger to the eye of the president. Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it is a co-equal branch.

Senate Republicans reject the Obamacare repeal.

The causes here are multiple, most having nothing to do with Trump. Republicans are deeply divided on the proper role of government in health care. This division is compounded by the sea change in public opinion as, over seven years, Obamacare has become part of the fabric of American medicine, and health care has come to be seen as a right rather than a commodity.

Nonetheless, the stunning Senate rejection of repeal was also a pointed rejection of Trumps health care hectoring. And a show of senatorial disdain for Trump craving a personal legislative win on an issue about whose policy choices he knew nothing and cared less.

The Boy Scouts protest.

In a rebuke not as earthshaking but still telling, the chief executive of the Boy Scouts found it necessary to apologize for the presidents speech last week to their quadrennial jamboree. The speech was wildly inappropriate, at once whining, self-referential, partisan and political.

How do you blow a speech to Boy Scouts? No merit badge for the big guy.

The police chiefs chide.

In an address to law enforcement officials, Trump gave a wink and a nod to cops roughing up suspects. Several police chiefs subsequently reprimanded Trump for encouraging police brutality a mild form, perhaps, but brutality still.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was all a joke. Nonsense. It was an ugly sentiment, expressed coyly enough to be waved away as humor but with the thuggish undertone of a man who, heckled at a campaign rally, once said approvingly that in the old days guys like that would be carried out on a stretcher.

Whatever your substantive position on the various issues outlined above, we should all be grateful that from the generals to the Scouts, from the senators to the cops, the institutions of both political and civil society are holding up well.

Trump is a systemic stress test. The results are good, thus far.

Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for The Washington Post. He can be contacted at:

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John Adams, the second American president, famouslywarned that without constitutional constraints on the power of popularly elected governments, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

That these words of wisdom, which for so long remained dormant counsel in history books, now spring to relevance marks the crisis of modern democracy today. Drawing on his reading of the failures of Greek democracy and the Roman Republic in antiquity, Adamsunderstood that predatory appetites are whetted when too much power is concentrated in any one place.To that end, along with the other Founding Fathers, he designed a Constitution with circuit breakers an independent judiciary and a deliberative upper house selected to check the popularly elected lower house that would cut off power when too much of it flows to one set of interests, including, and especially, the electoral majority.As John C. Calhoun would later put it, a positive majority makes a government; anegative, or check on that power, makes constitutional rule.

Barely a day goes by in the United States when President Donald Trump doesnt assault one or another of the institutional constraints on his power, above all an independent judiciary and the free media, not to mention the special prosecutor appointed by the Justice Department to look into whether the Trump team colluded with Russia during the campaign. Fortunately, the weakness and incompetence of inexperienced leadership combined with factional polarization within the ruling Republican majority has only yielded paralysis. Democracy in the U.S.today may be wasting and exhausting itself, but so far it has not succeeded in taking its own life.

That is not the case elsewhere. As Nilfer Glewrote recently in The WorldPost, a pluralist Turkey that once aspired to join Europe has now given way to an authoritarian, Islamic populist regime ratified by a majority through the ballot box.

In Venezuela, the ruling regime has used the populist canard of a popular referendum to elect a stacked list for a constituent assembly to write new rules that nullify the power of the opposition-dominated National Assembly. The 545 largely pro-regime constituents elected over the weekend are now directed by Venezuelan President Nicols Maduros government not merely to rewrite the constitution, writesMoises Rendon, but also to establish a new communal political system with absolute power, not unlike those in Cuba or North Korea. The prospect of such a systemrisks total economic collapse, a worsened humanitarian crisis and permanent civil conflict in Venezuela.Since last weekends vote, Maduros government has moved speedily to arrest opposition leaders. With domestic avenues of resistance now blocked, hope turns to international pressure. The world needs to move now before the situation spirals into a failed state, says Rendon.

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Poland, once the poster child of post-Cold War democratization, is sliding back to authoritarian rule. Taking heart from the solidarity with its illiberal sentiments expressed by Trump during hisrecent visit to Warsaw, the parliamentary majority of the ruling Law and Justice party and its allies passed legislation in July that would politicize the rule of law and end the independence of the judiciary. The aim, as Jacek Kucharczykwrites from Warsaw, is to completely overhaul the judiciary system, including the forced retirement of Supreme Court justices, [as] an essential part of the ruling partys long-term strategy of dismantling democratic checks and balances and introducing de facto one-party rule.

To everyones surprise, Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoed the law that would have ousted the Supreme Court justices after massive demonstrations against it across all of Polands major cities. These young people sent a strong signal to Duda, who largely owes his unexpected victory in 2015 to anti-establishment young voters, Kucharczyk reports. The ruling party has nonetheless pledged to press on with its proposed reforms. Stay tuned as uncertainty and turmoil grips yet another nation.

In Italy, representative democracy is being challenged from another angle by the populist Five Star Movement, which polls show is a leading contenderfor power in upcoming elections in 2018.The Eurosceptic movement believes that delegation of power to a corrupt political class ought to be replaced in the internet age by direct citizen participation in governance. In a video, a Five Star leader, Davide Casaleggio, explains a set of innovative online tools the movement has created not only to raise funds and recruit candidates for office from outside the mainstream parties, but to engage citizens directly in the proposition and drafting of legislation as well.

Writing in The WorldPost last year about Brazils own democratic meltdown,one of the countrys former presidents, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, identified the core of the crisis of representative democracy as the widening gap between peoples aspirations and the capacity of political institutions to respond to the demands of society. He continued: It is one of the ironies of our age that this deficit of trust in political institutions coexists with the rise of citizens capable of making the choices that shape their lives and influence the future of their societies.

Despite what one thinks of the Five Star Movements simplistic populism, the tools it is inventing are a significant remedy to closing the trust gap Cardoso identifies. If citizen empowerment can be combined with the ballast of deliberative bodies that check popular passions and formulate responsible policies, as John Adams and the other American Founding Fathers rightly thought so necessary, the renovation of democracy instead of its suicide may well be possible.

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This week, scientists reported that, for the first time, they succeeded in editing the genes of a human embryo to eliminate a genetic mutation. Responding to the breakthrough, Craig Calhoun, the president of the Berggruen Institute, argues in a short essay that science and technological capacity are racing ahead of ethics, safety regulations and our understanding of risks and societal implications. Some, he writes, even worry that such gene editing practices are a backdoor to eugenics that will reinforce racial divisions. At a fundamental level, Calhoun posits, Genetic modification challenges our very idea of human nature. It suggests that we can make human beings into what we want them to be. Though conceding that gene editing is one of the most promising medical technologies in years, Calhoun concludes that unless there is much more attention to the ethical and social choices before us, we risk seeing that promise mired in controversy or turned into a disaster.

Though Mexico entered the democratic pantheon in 2000 when elections ended more than 70 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, it has not yet been able to establish an effective rule of law. In an article and video that profile personal cases, Amnesty Internationals Josefina Salomn reports on what appears to be widespread arbitrary detentions by corrupt police chalking it all up to the war on drugs. View the WorldPost video based on Amnestys reporting below:

EDITORS:Nathan Gardels, Co-Founder and Executive Advisor to the Berggruen Institute, is the Editor-in-Chief of The WorldPost.Kathleen Milesis the Executive Editor of The WorldPost.Farah Mohamedis the Managing Editor of The WorldPost.Peter Mellgardis the Features Editor of The WorldPost.Alex Gardelsis the Video Editor of The WorldPost.Suzanne Gaberis the Editorial Assistant of The WorldPost.Rosa OHarais the Social Editor of The WorldPost.Katie Nelsonis News Director at HuffPost, overseeing The WorldPost and HuffPosts news coverage.Nick Robins-EarlyandJesselyn Cookare World Reporters.

EDITORIAL BOARD:Nicolas Berggruen,Nathan Gardels,Arianna Huffington,Eric Schmidt(Google Inc.),Pierre Omidyar(First Look Media),Juan Luis Cebrian(El Pais/PRISA),Walter Isaacson(Aspen Institute/TIME-CNN),John Elkann(Corriere della Sera, La Stampa),Wadah Khanfar(Al Jazeera)andYoichi Funabashi(Asahi Shimbun).

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS:Dawn Nakagawa.

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:Moises Naim(former editor ofForeign Policy),Nayan Chanda(Yale/Global; Far Eastern Economic Review) andKatherine Keating(One-On-One).Sergio Munoz BataandParag Khannaare Contributing Editors-At-Large.

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