Delaware holds school board elections today. The News Journal ran a useful voters’ guide, but I don’t know if it’s behind the paywall. Meanwhile, RISE Delaware, the group fighting Gov. Carney’s proposed downgrade to state retirees’ health care, has scheduled a rally at Legislative Hall from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
The never-ending legal problems of Previous Guy Donald Trump keep getting worse. Georgia prosecutors have gotten eight of Trump’s “fake electors” to turn state’s evidence. One who hasn’t flipped, the chairman of the state GOP, is defending himself by claiming Trump’s lawyers told him it was OK. Good luck with that.
A never-Trump conservative has an answer to why none of the Not Trumps ever seriously threatens to dethrone him: By emulating Trump’s most draconian positions, they set Trump up to look like the more moderate choice.
“Banning Muslims: not moderate. But on a host of other issues, Trump cultivated an image that was less ideologically rigid than his opponents. He seemed way chiller than Ted Cruz on gays and abortion. He said he wouldn’t cut Social Security and Medicare. And he attacked the foreign-policy hawks in both parties for war-mongering. This allowed him to win over both the extreme members of the base who like how he fought the libs on cultural issues, but also appeal to casuals who liked The Apprentice that thought that some of the super-Christian Republicans were a little out there.”
From the Every Accusation a Confession files, a Texas state rep who liked to rail against “groomers” resigned just before his colleagues could expel him for plying his 19-year-old aide with liquor and fucking her (this is known as “rape” unless a politician does it, in which case prosecutors will say they don’t have enough proof). Say, Vance Phillips moved to Texas, didn’t he? Coincidence?
Wildfires in Alberta have burned nearly 1 million acres and interrupted oil supplies to the US Midwest, though cooler temperatures are helping firefighters to bring it under control. Meanwhile, the rain in Spain is mainly not falling in the plain, threatening the olive harvest.
I’m sure I’ve missed plenty more examples of the permanent decline of civil society if not civilization itself. Feel free to post them below.