Author: Daniel snow

new video loaded: Pete Buttigieg Is Facing Down the DarknesstranscriptBacktranscriptPete Buttigieg Is Facing Down the DarknessPete Buttigieg joined the Opinion editorial director David Leonhardt to discuss what America’s next story should be and how Democrats can get where they need to go.When I think about the future, it is by looking at the darkness that I actually find my way to the most hope, because I can see that we are headed toward a time that will be like many of the most consequential times we’ve studied. The times that generate the heroes that we name buildings after and write…

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new video loaded: Why MAGA’s Bullying Will FailtranscriptBacktranscriptWhy MAGA’s Bullying Will FailThe Opinion columnist David French breaks down how Trump and his supporters are using familiar pressure — and what backlash it could spark — at the round table in this week’s episode of “The Opinions.”MAGA is going to learn something that the far left learned in the late 20-teens, moving in the early 2020s: that a lot of your success in online aggression and shaming and mobbing and attacking and intolerance is very temporary and illusory because the majority of people don’t like those kinds of tactics and they’re…

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new video loaded: Our Founders’ MistaketranscriptBacktranscriptOur Founders’ MistakeThe Opinion contributing writer E.J. Dionne thinks America’s founders made a mistake. In this round-table conversation for “The Opinions,” he tells David French and Michelle Cottle why the Constitution doesn’t fit today’s Congress.I think the biggest mistake the founders made — and they realized it pretty quickly, because they’re the ones who started the first party system — they wrote a Constitution as if political parties didn’t exist because in principle they didn’t believe in them. And so they thought the branches of government would be so jealous of their own rights, would…

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