Biden isn't the official nominee yet. Maybe they should do something about that if they don't want to lose?
Oh, that's right, they have no problem with what Biden is doing, why would they?
I can't wait for the post-Gaza war analysis of the site with an editor-in-chief who was a prison guard in Israel who literally lead Palestinian prisoners to their torture sessions. I wonder if a main article will actually be titled something like "The Unfortunate Necessity of War" and it will be 1,000 and 1,000s of words about how war crimes in Gaza aren't actually war crimes, it was a good war plus atrocities and horror in the West Bank were actually no big deal.
I read a bit of the on China (archive link to get around paywall) article. Brainworn stew.
But Biden has hit China harder than Trump ever did. Armed with a more determined foreign policy, he has inflicted acute damage on the country’s economy and geopolitical ambitions, from which China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has struggled to recover. “A Biden-led U.S., probably from the Chinese perspective, looks like a more formidable challenge,” Scott Kennedy, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., told me.
The most telling example is Biden’s technology policy. In 2022, his administration effectively barred the export to China of advanced semiconductors and the complex equipment required to manufacture them. The controls will likely set back China’s hopes of building a competitive chip industry for years and hamper its progress in other key tech sectors, such as artificial intelligence.
By comparison, from Beijing’s point of view, haggling with Trump over tariffs or exchanging bombastic rhetoric was a mere nuisance. Trump’s withdrawal from American global leadership encouraged Xi to promote China as a more responsible world power. The chaos of the Trump presidency—the administration’s inept response to the pandemic, the violence of January 6—allowed Chinese propagandists to cast the United States as a superpower in decline.
Apparently the burger reich is no longer an empire in decline under Bidler.
Biden’s diplomatic reengagement has made spreading that narrative harder. In response, Xi has become more hostile to Washington. He has routinely resisted dialogue with the Biden administration and become more determined to upset the U.S.-led world order. He has grown more desperate and isolated as a result. Opposed by most of the world’s major powers, Xi has thrown in his lot with the pariah states Russia and Iran in an attempt to build an anti-American coalition to challenge U.S. primacy.
Pariah states among the international community (tm) perhaps.
Whoever wins the White House, Xi will pursue his agenda to roll back American power and create a China-centric world order. But he would likely push even harder to promote China as a world leader if Trump were in charge. By weakening U.S. standing abroad and democracy at home, Trump would offer Xi more opportunities than Biden to extend Chinese influence and win hearts and minds within the developing world.
China is totally trying to take over the world, and Bidler is totally standing in the way of Chinese diplomacy! Trust me bro!
It ends with this banger:
If Xi could vote in November, he would surely cast his ballot for Trump.
If Xi could vote in November, he would surely cast his ballot for Trump.
I guess we have no choice but to judge world leaders on if The Atlantic thinks they'd vote for Trump or not.
those Palestinian children would have voted for Trump, so you know we had to do it to emI expect to see a bluecheck on Twitter with this exact take at any moment
I could never vote for Trump, but the Atlantic seems to want me to
Helen Lewis on the left
ah yes, we all know how Democrats love "the left"
I assume the article posits that Trump win means the left also becomes a danger to the United States because horseshow theory is a real thing that actually, definitely exists.
That article doesn't appear to be online yet, but from the same author:
In the United Kingdom, where I live, a journalist for the hard-left outlet Novara, Rivkah Brown, tweeted that “the struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless and we shouldn’t apologise for it.” (She has since deleted the post, saying she responded “too quickly and in a moment of heightened emotion.”) Ellie Gomersall, the president of the National Union of Students in Scotland, apologized for reposting content justifying Hamas’s actions. Two days earlier, Gomersall had accused the British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer of being “complicit in the deaths of … trans people” for saying that “a woman is a female adult.” Got that? A politician with an essentialist view of womanhood is complicit in the deaths of innocents, but a terrorist indiscriminately murdering people at a music festival must be understood in context.
and she later criticizes intersectional politics with
It’s also how you end up with candidates for Labour Party leadership signing a pledge that insists there “is no material conflict between trans rights and women’s rights,” even when—as in the eligibility rules for women’s sports—some wins for one group plainly come at the expense of the other.
When will Dems start talking about holding Biden accountable for not being a candidate anyone wants to vote for rather than focusing on his opponent?
If Trump wins, another four years of these elder statesmen clucking their tongues and stroking their beards, asking "what's to be done about this Donald Trump?"
I'm so excited to hear which group of grassroots left-wing activists will be directly responsible for Biden's defeat. My money is on the DSA, but I wouldn't be surprised if we find out it was Amazon union organizers or WGA strikers or All Arabs instead.
Seriously, the fact that David Frum has a platform in this magazine should be grounds for everyone involved to be tried for war crimes
I mean, things absolutely will get worse if/when Trump wins in 2024. Not looking forward to it.
It would be nice if the dems stopped being Uvalde cops lead by Sheriff Tired Old Joe Biden, had a bold (if not radical) plan to appeal to voters, and actually did something.
Whatever happens, it will never be worth hearing David Frums opinions on it
When I first saw this image I thought that they were rating Trump in terms of policy. So as an autocrat Trump would be like David Frum, on the loyalists he’d behave like McKay Coppins, concerning abortion he’d be an Elaine Godfrey, his history is only as good as Clint Smith’s (I thought that Smith was a notoriously awful historiaster until I looked him up), &c.
kinda sad that the Atlantic and National Interest are the only major print publications that aren't trying to make their magazine look like a discount daily mail.
<- caught in the act
Helen
: an editorial by David Frum
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David Frum 
