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nycfan said:
I lived in NY in the 1990s and was surprised when I visited NC to learn a serial killer had been arrested in Charlotte in 1994 (or maybe ‘95?) because it got no noticeable coverage in The NY Times or even the NY tabloids (at least on the main pages (front and Page Six) I would see people holding in the subway).

I do think it is an editorial choice now not to at least cover the politicization of this case …
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Yeah, I see no reason why the NYT would run a story on a Charlotte murder for the purpose of reporting on the murder itself. The national headline here is politicization of the case.
 
PandemicBlue said:
You've become lost in your hate. No matter what Trump does, good for the country or bad, you and yours are against it. How weak-minded must someone be in order to be so totally manipulated by a political party?
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A Tale of Three Rights? Understanding How Republicans Are Changing under Trump

Donald Trump has reshaped the Republican Party – and more generally US conservatism – to an extent and in ways that were unthinkable in 2015, when he first emerged as a serious candidate for the presidential primaries. To understand that, we only have to get back to 2012, when the Republican...
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Donald Trump has reshaped the Republican Party – and more generally US conservatism – to an extent and in ways that were unthinkable in 2015, when he first emerged as a serious candidate for the presidential primaries. To understand that, we only have to get back to 2012, when the Republican consensus on issues like free trade and immigration was literally opposite to what it is now. Back then, the party supported free trade without reservations and recognised a need for (controlled) immigration. Meanwhile, the Bush family held significant sway, with Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and son and brother of the last two Republican presidents, considered a frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination.

Fast forward to the present, and the Republican Party has undergone a dramatic shift under Trump’s influence. Today, being pro-free trade or pro-immigration is almost unthinkable for a Republican candidate in any primary. In the same way, the foreign-policy outlook of the party has drastically changed: dominated by hawks and neo-conservatives in the past, it is now much more influenced by isolationist and inward-looking imperialist elements (those have always existed within the party, but had been marginal in the past, in particular during the George W. Bush years in the early 2000s). Much like it previously did with the Bush family, the party now aligns more closely with Trump’s vision and family influence – exemplified by the personal loyalty tests that are now required for any would-be candidate for office to subscribe to in order to have the president’s support. This is not to say that everything has changed. The Republican Party remains socially conservative, advocating for example anti-abortion policies and low direct taxes. Seen from this angle, the litmus test of what makes (or does not make) one a conservative has not changed. However, Trump has reshaped the party’s priorities and values in significant ways, and will continue to do so.

The Republican Party that emerged from the 2024 elections is distinct from the one that lost in 2020 or won the trifecta – presidency, Senate and House – in 2016. To outsiders, especially Europeans, Trumpism may appear as a monolithic structure, an image Trump has sometimes reinforced. However, the US president’s success (and popularity) lies in managing a coalition of diverse interests and ideologies. Trump’s coalition includes disparate groups like tech entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley looking forward to a bright future and former steel workers in Youngstown Ohio, looking back with nostalgia to a past that they would like to re-create. Some members of this coalition are organising and seek to apply an ideological lens to Trump’s instincts, in order to define the future of Trumpism beyond the current presidency.

It is therefore extremely important to understand how the current Trumpian coalition functions – if we then want to understand where it is headed. Currently, the coalition ruling the party can be divided into three main groups: MAGA-World, the tech-libertarians, and the Country-Club Republicans.…
 
UNCatTech said:
What has he done that's good?

Even in areas where we might agree, his methodologies are horrible and he's simply a bad person.

I'm trying to recall, but I do believe there were a couple of things he did that many on the left agreed with.

But beyond politics, trump is just a piece of shit. Even if he were the worlds best leader, actually stopped wars, actually fixed the economy, etc. he would still be a piece of shit. There's simply no changing that he's a piece of shit.

List a few redeeming qualities he possesses?
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Tech, you made it too hard. I can’t come up with one redeeming quality that horrid excuse for a human being has.
By the way, hope everything works out.
 
Usually the deaths of pretty young woman draw lots of attention. This time..,not so much. Wonder why. My guess is the race of the
killer.

Where are all the libs with Ukrainian flags in their headers? No 5 months of riots or golden caskets?
 
Ramrouser said:
Usually the deaths of pretty young woman draw lots of attention. This time..,not so much. Wonder why. My guess is the race of the
killer.

Where are all the libs with Ukrainian flags in their headers? No 5 months of riots or golden caskets?
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Um … that’s one of the main reasons this case is now drawing national attention. But it’s not really a national story. I can’t think of many murders in Charlotte that have made national headlines. Why should this one? Because the victim was pretty?

And what does the Ukrainian thing have to do with anything? It’s not like she was targeted for being Ukrainian.
 
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