Joe Biden managed to do what liberals in India, the U.K., and a whole host of other countries could not: defeat a right-wing, populist incumbent.
Some thoughts inspired by a 3:00 am conversation with the great @psen9
Daniel Block
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Daniel Block
@dblock94
Senior editor @ForeignAffairs. Formerly: the @monthly, @thecaravanindia, @PhillyInquirer. Onetime ski instructor.
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Joined May 2015
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- At a slight risk of getting dragged, I make the case for respecting Justin Trudeau. My latest for the @monthy:
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- Replying to @dblock94It's easy for the left to hate him, but his list of progressive achievements is quite impressive. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/09/29/jus…
- If India did assassinate a Canadian citizen, on Canadian soil, we should be horrified. But we shouldn't be surprised. Me in @TheAtlantic:
- The Iranian regime may be a few months away from getting a nuclear weapon. Washington needs new ideas about how to stop them. But Iran experts are being so aggressively threatened, harassed, and doxed that many have gone silent. Me in @POLITICOMag:
- In his investigation into Salena Zito, the Washington Examiner, and the New York Post, @GiladEdelman shows how conservative media outlets crop and clean the views of Trump supporters washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novem…
- Lots of valuable info in this Post article on domestic terrorism: washingtonpost.com/investigations… Their findings hew closely to what I wrote an emerging U.S. insurgency would look like. washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april… So I put the pieces side by side to see what they say about our future. 1/6
- A $1,000+ bill for COVID tests. A $50,000 charge for a one-night stay in an ICU. Surprise billing is so outrageous that Democrats and Republicans worked hand in hand to try and end it. I wrote about the groups that ground their efforts to a halt. 1/4 washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april…
- Nancy Pelosi saved Obamacare and gave Donald Trump one of his most significant defeats. She's one of the most important progressive figures of this century to date, and she deserves to be treated like it.
- An excellent story by the always excellent @EricCortellessa. To understand the next Trump term, follow him.The nation is more polarized than at any point since the Civil War. But soon, there will be at least one thing that binds us all together: Come Jan. 20, we will all be living in Trump’s America. My @TIME cover story on Trump’s return to power: time.com/7172052/how-do…
