Here's the millenial projection. Good luck down the road, GOP.
1. The Piece You Read This Week.
Over the next 40 years, this Democratic generation fundamentally altered American politics. They restructured “campaign finance, party nominations, government transparency, and congressional organization.” They took on domestic violence, homophobia, discrimination against the disabled, and sexual harassment. They jettisoned many racially and culturally authoritarian traditions. They produced Bill Clinton’s presidency directly, and in many ways, they shaped President Barack Obama’s.
The result today is a paradox. At the same time that the nation has achieved perhaps the most tolerant culture in U.S. history, the destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in the Democratic Party has also cleared the way for the greatest concentration of economic power in a century.
But when it came to the austerity issues that have so clearly shaped the 2016 presidential race, Wallace got the substance all wrong; and, in so doing, he maintained the agonizingly low standards for economic discourse that have always characterized forums organized by the lamentable Commission on Presidential Debates.
Wallace’s questions about economics and fiscal policy featured wrongheaded recitations of false premises that were every bit as absurd as the Republican nominee’s repetition of discredited claims about “rigged” elections.
3. It's not a campaign - it's hat sales.
In mid-to-late 2016 a new form of political commentary emerged... pic.twitter.com/2xVbzT1IZu— Will 🐋 Menaker (@willmenaker) October 28, 2016
When cartoons come to life. pic.twitter.com/eR33KHTggk— Billmon (@billmon1) October 29, 2016
Every time I think this decade can't possibly get any dumber, I read a phrase like "beach privilege." https://t.co/1EPgJwQJG3 pic.twitter.com/XJ3MzTh4u5— Marty Beckerman (@martybeckerman) October 29, 2016
