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Will Republicans ever rebel against the execrable primary debates foisted on us every four years? Vetting presidential candidates is one of our most important civic duties, but the Republican National Committee offshores the job to journalists who pretend to be neutral the better to slay Republicans on behalf of the Democrats and inject themselves into the proceedings, a la Candy Crowley correcting Mitt Romney when Romney was right and her correction was wrong. (Three hundred more examples upon request.) Moderators consider any debate a failure when they havent done 90 percent of the talking.

Despite my repeated demand for presidential debates with no moderators, like Lincoln and Douglas did, the worst possible people keep popping up to host these events, making them a total waste of time, like a David Brooks column.

Im a very busy person, but as a public service, I have written a series of questions for the useless wastes of space moderating this weeks Republican debate. Perhaps not as riveting as questions from a talking snowman about global warming, but still pretty good.

Today, my questions will focus on Nikki Haley, who is surging in the polls principally because, as my regular readers know, Republican mega-donors are the most out of touch, head-up-their-butts twits the country has to offer. (Just ask Presidents Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Phil Gramm.)

Here are a few of the questions that need to be answered:

1. Ambassador Haley, you mention your husbands military service often, and by often, I mean on a 5-second loop. In nearly every public appearance, you say some variation of this:

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Our family, like every military family, is ready to make personal sacrifices when our loved one answers the call. We could not be prouder of Michael and his military brothers and sisters. Their commitment to protecting our freedom is a reminder of how blessed we are to live in America.

Your husbands first deployment was to Afghanistan in 2013, to teach Afghans to grow crops other than opium. This did not have the slightest effect, and today, the country is growing more opium than before your husbands deployment.

Please explain how trying to teach Afghans to grow crops other than opium, which led to their growing even more opium, protect[ed] our freedom.

2. In fact, explain how getting Afghans to grow less opium would have protect[ed] our freedom even if it had worked. Which, again, it did not.

3. I realize theres an excellent reason for sending billions upon billions of hard-earned American dollars around the globe to people who hated us before, hate us after and which never accomplishes the stated objective, but please remind us what it is.

4. Exactly how much money should we confiscate from the American people to spend on countries notable for not being our country? My number is zero. Whats yours? Were looking for a specific figure, not a seminar on foreign aid.

5. Your husband is currently making us safer in Djibouti, Africa, a place obviously top of mind for most Americans.

Our mission there is vital and only the most obtuse would mock it. According to the Defense Department, American military exercises there consist of keeping the locals entertained with art bazaars, Ramadan meals and field trips:

U.S. service members who deploy to [Djibouti] engage with our allies and Djiboutian partners through hosted events and volunteer opportunities in the community. Navy Capt. Suzanne J.M. Krauss, commanding officer.

Its a really lovely thing to see U.S. personnel engaging the community in such positive ways. Acting Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Mara Karlin

For the past 16 years, the base has hosted a biannual bazaar that connects U.S. military members with Djiboutians through art. U.S. Department of Defense

Please explain to voters, who lack a nuanced understanding of strategic objectives, how this posting protect[s] our country and our freedoms?

6. Now, obviously, as crucial as it is, we cant spend all of our military budget on Djiboutian art bazaars, Ramadan meals and field trips. Equally important is paying the military, agriculture, policing, educational, retirement and civil service expenses for the country of Ukraine.

You have warned congressional Republicans that to stop the flow of taxpayer money to that country, on top of the $100 billion weve already sent, could cause Ukraine to lose the war.

If that should that happen, which of these is your greatest fear:

Millions of poverty-stricken Africans and Latin Americans will pour into Ukraine within three years;

One hundred thousand Ukrainians will die every year from drugs brought across its borders, including enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child several times over;

Tens of thousands of children will be smuggled in and forced to work at dangerous jobs on 17-hour, overnight shifts;

Hundreds of terrorists will stream into Ukraine each year.

7. Who is the campaign consultant to female presidential candidates convincing you, Fiorina and Hillary Clinton that to be taken seriously as a possible commander in chief, you have to be Suzy Warmonger, constantly threatening to start wars all over the world?

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Twelve months out from Election Day, the Presidential campaign has inescapably begun with the slow, ominous, upward crank of a roller coaster. For Democrats, the opening stages of the ride were particularly grim. A Times/Siena College poll published last weekend found that, of the six swing states that are expected to decide the election, President Joe Biden trails Donald Trump in all but oneWisconsinand would likely lose if the vote were held today. Within the Democratic Party, the possibility of another four years of Trump was alarming on a spiritual level, and panic set in. Barack Obamas political guru David Axelrod suggested in a post that Biden needed to decide whether a second run is in his best interest or the countrys.

During the Biden era, polls have tended to signal doom for Democratic candidates, but elections have generally turned out all right for them. For all the foreboding in the air, last Tuesdays Election Night went well for the Democrats, who once again campaigned on abortion rights, and once again won. In deep-red Kentucky, not only did the popular young Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, comfortably win a second term but he pulled back some coal counties in Appalachia that had been thought lost to his party. In Virginia, where Republicans had expended immense effort to try to win a state Senate majority for Governor Glenn Youngkin, they not only failed but lost control of the state House, too. In Ohio, which Trump won handily twice, a ballot initiative to guarantee abortion access in the state constitution passed, fifty-seven to forty-three per cent. Now it was the Republicans turn to panic. The conservative pundit Ann Coulter wrote online, pro-lifers are going to wipe out the republican party. Could it really be the case that voters want what the Democrats are offering, while recoiling from their President?

Maybe so. This is a country, after all, of high variance. When Biden was picked as the Partys nominee in 2020, it was done the way you might select a contractorhis skills were specific to the job at hand. Trump had succeeded in 2016 by casting the Democrats as the party of liberal culture warriors and future-obsessed lites, and by winning the support of voters without college degrees. Biden had run for President twice before, generating little enthusiasm, but in 2020 he played the safe handnot too new, not too radical, not too coastal or lite, the nice guy to Trumps unceasing invective. Democratic primary voters fixated on denying Trump another term to a sometimes unnerving degree. Campaign reporters often found voters less concerned about explaining why they liked a particular candidate than about asking how the candidate was playing before other, more decisive groups of voters in different parts of the country. It was an unusual situation. It was also perfect for Biden.

The situation is a bit different this time. What is plaguing Bidens 2024 campaign is a more basic lack of interest, especially among young voters, nonwhite voters, and those without college degrees. In 2020, Biden won nonwhite voters under the age of forty-five by thirty-nine points, but according to the Times/Siena poll he now leads among that group by just six points, and is essentially tied with Trump among voters younger than twenty-nine. Bidens problems have something to do with a general impressionheld by seventy-one per cent of respondents, compared with thirty-nine per cent for Trumpthat he is simply too old to be President. Yet voters also believe by wide marginsfifty-nine per cent to thirty-seventhat Trump would be better than Biden at managing the economy. The sharp rise in prices seems to figure more for voters than the continuously strong jobs numbers that the White House has been trying to tout. Young and nonwhite voters usually support Democrats, which might make the White House optimistic that Biden can win them back. But the specific complaints that voters have are hard for Biden to do much about. Prices are high because of the way the global economy has rebounded from the pandemic. Hes old because of the inexorable march of time.

Is the 2024 election just another iteration of the same dynamic that has been in place since Trump descended his escalator? Call this campaign Act III of the political horror serial titled Trump. And yet Trump himselfwho has denied any wrongdoing, but is facing trial for everything from saying that his apartment was three times its actual size, in order to get better loan terms, to trying to overturn a Presidential electionisnt exactly the same. He is skipping the Republican primary debates and otherwise scarcely campaigning, holding occasional rallies before crowds to whom he mocks his opponents and vows that hell win redemption following 2020. Few seem especially roused by Trumps campaign, in any event. That seems the biggest difference. Democrats describe this election as if democracy itself were on the ballot, and, given Trumps talk of dismantling the nonpartisan civil service and of retribution, in some senses it may well be. But the mood on the trail and in the polls isnt of an apocalyptic fight against authoritarianism; with young voters tuning out, and two candidates who are broadly disliked, its of creeping democratic exhaustion.

It has been an exhausting few years. Trump seems pretty fatiguedthere have been a lot of depositions. So does Biden, who is now trying to manage two wars indirectly, one of which has required linking his reputation to his old antagonist Benjamin Netanyahu. In nearly three years as President, Biden has accomplished much of what he might reasonably have been expected to, given the tight legislative margins: managing the economic turmoil of covid, investing in infrastructure to spur the economys green transition, restoring traditional overseas alliances in the fight for a free Ukraine.The result of all this achievement has been that he has gone from being a popular politician to an unpopular one.

Democratic partisans might object that evaluating a Presidency after three years is like asking a homeowner how she feels about a renovation project thats only partway done. (Well, theres no roof yetsomewhat disapprove.) Maybe worries about abortion rights and the Trumpist threat to democracy will carry Biden to victory next fall, as they have done for the Democrats in the past few elections. But the danger encoded in the polls is that enough voters might come to see Biden as embodying a stagnant status quo and Trump as the alternative to it, which feels a little too close for comfort to 2016.

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Last month, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak released his Plan for Motorists, which reads like it was written by a car. In it, Sunak proposes to rid his polluted, congested nation of so-called anti-motorist measures such as 20 mph speed limits, dedicated bus lanes, and automated camera enforcement. Sunaks party has also bought into conspiracy theories that 15-minute cities, built so everything you need is within a 15-minute walk or bike ride away, are prisons for car owners.

In New York, politicians of all stripes are ratcheting up anger over the so-called (and eponymous podcast title) war on cars. Council Member Bob Holden (D-Queens) decried the arrival of Citi Bike in central Queens as a salvo from the fanatical anti-car movement, and Council Member Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) uses her office Twitter account to blast congestion pricing and even the transition to electric vehicles amount as Democrat-led cash grabs. Meanwhile, companies like Broadway Stages are flexing their muscle to get the mayors chief adviser who boasts that she hasnt ridden the subway in decades to reverse long-established safe street redesign protocols.

Its worth reminding oneself that this is the response to measures that aim to: a) make roadways safer; b) delay the worst effects of climate change; and c) make it easier to simply breathe outside. Such proposals barely ask Americans to make even a small sacrifice in the grand scheme of things, but they do seek to encourage people to drive a little bit less, to drive a less-polluting vehicle, or to try (keyword: try) to give people the option of not driving at all.

In return, people who even mildly question the primacy of the automobile are met with a vitriolic backlash, one whose vehemence shows how deeply people associate themselves with the car. Initiatives that use less than 1 percent of a citys (mostly free) parking spots for something that isnt the private storage of vehicles on public space like bikeshare, outdoor dining or even getting disgusting trash out of the way of pedestrians are labeled a war on our way of life. (Or as conservative commentator Ann Coulter put it: $0 for the Wall. $5 Billion for bike paths.)

This car culture war will likely get worse, as Sunak, Holden, Paladino and their ilk show. Cities cant deliver on their climate goals without getting cars off the road. Cities cannot succeed in solving Americas road-death crisis without calming streets, reducing car speeds and creating more space for cyclists and pedestrians.

Meanwhile, Millennials and Gen Zers, who will soon dominate policy-making circles, want walkable communities and lives without cars. Thats good news for the future, but sets up a clash with the naysayers who still have a grip on power (and community boards).

But the revanchists should be aware: their culture war risks backfiring. The abortion fight is a telling example. Conservatives who pushed to repeal Roe v. Wade didnt expect people to respond by voting to preserve abortion rights, even in deep-red states. This was always one of Donald Trumps great flaws: by making everything political, you end up energizing a lot more people (who are usually apolitical) against you.

The same can be said about cars. Theres a clear demand for safer streets and better mobility options: bike lanes lead to more cycling, while pedestrianization leads to more walking (and spending). Polls often capture a wide swath of the population that would bike or walk more if conditions were safer or more pleasant. If opponents seek battles to prevent the changes we need, they shouldnt be surprised when people of all backgrounds show up in support.

Change, of course, is difficult and cars are potentially poised for the loudest outcry. You might not know someone who had to get an abortion, whose sexual identity or orientation are under attack, or whose school district banned fact-based history instruction, but its almost an absolute certainty that youve been in a car. In a recent interview, Sunak said exactly that when dodging questions about a major high-speed rail project that he cancelled: The vast majority of the journeys that people make are in their cars, he said, suggesting that trying to change that is futile and politically suicidal.

Weve been here before. (Time and time again.) In 1972, an angry taxi driver in Amsterdam was captured on video ripping down barricades for a kids-only street and exerting his right to drive anywhere at any time. Residents persevered, pushing the Dutch capital to become a hallmark of people-friendly streets (with still plenty of cars to go around) as the rest of the world gobbled up more space for the internal combustion engine.

In many ways, countless cities today are finally arriving at their 1972 Amsterdam moment, stuck between a gurgling culture war that threatens to enrage and enlist countless drivers by convincing them that their parking is more important than the Earth or a childs survival and a movement to reclaim space for everyone else.

Local leaders will just have to decide whether thats actually an equal fight.

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign clapped back at conservative commentator Ann Coulter after she described Ramaswamy’s back-and-forth with fellow GOP hopeful Nikki Haley at Wednesday’s debate as “Hindu business.”

“Ann can tweet whatever she wants to,” Tricia McLaughlin, Ramaswamy’s communications director, said in a statement to The Hill. “Vivek has traveled this country and is very grateful for the warm support he has received from Christian voters across the country.” 

She added, “Vivek shares and lives by the same Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded on — and that the way Vivek lives his family life offers a positive example for their own children and grandchildren.”

Coulter’s post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, came amid a fiery exchange between Ramaswamy and Haley at the first Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday. 

After Ramaswamy said he did not support providing additional U.S. aid to Ukraine amid its war with Russia, Haley slammed the political newcomer’s lack of foreign policy experience.

“He wants to hand Ukraine to Russia, he wants to let China eat Taiwan, he wants to go and stop funding Israel,” Haley said. “You don’t do that to friends. What you do instead is you have the backs of your friends.”

“Under your watch, you will make America less safe,” she added. “You have no foreign policy experience, and it shows.”

Coulter, who was posting on X throughout the debate, said in a post during the exchange, “Nikki and Vivek are involved in some Hindu business, it seems. Not our fight.” 

While Ramaswamy is Hindu, Haley is not. The former South Carolina governor was raised Sikh and converted to Christianity. 

Coulter previously came under fire in February for making derogatory remarks about Haley’s Indian heritage.

Shortly after Haley announced her candidacy, the conservative commentator suggested that she “go back to [her] own country.” The Republican hopeful was born in the U.S. to Indian immigrant parents.

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