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Juneteenth takes on increased urgency this year after we saw the Supreme Court eviscerating the Voting Rights Act in several steps, the latter of which came on the shadow docket and represented a green light to Republicans to create racist maps.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump team just killed an investigation into the president\u2019s corruption: NYT<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve witnessed the bigoted attacks on President Obama and Michelle Obama this year, including at the groteseque UFC circus at the White House. And we saw that vile meme Donald Trump, a racist to the core, shared about the former president and first lady.<\/p>\n

Watching the coverage of the dedication to the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago yesterday, however, was uplifting. It reminded us of a lot, and it seemed to wash all that slime away, at least for a day. We got a glimpse of the normal world. I enjoyed playing some of the clips on my Sirius XM show, opening with something positive and inspiring, rather than the usual attacks on democracy and massive corruption.<\/p>\n

Trump wasn\u2019t in Chicago\u2014where former presidents, foreign dignitaries and many celebrities gathered\u2014and his absence is what made it an event that reminded me of what the world was before and what it could be. Michelle Obama hit on so many things that Barack Obama has represented, and it was everything Trump is not\u2014including a Nobel Prize winner.<\/p>\n

It was a burn of Trump without mentioning his name or even alluding to him in any overt way. I wish Obama himself would punch hard, but that\u2019s not who he is. He\u2019s got his flaws but again reminded us of a far better time\u2014and of what\u2019s ahead as we work toward November.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re seeing MAGA, the Trump regime, the GOP, and the orange menace himself melting down every day. This week we saw the stunning disaster of the Iran war in full, Trump\u2019s complete surrender, which even his own MAGA base sees and from which he won\u2019t recover. Republicans in the House and Senate are divided on that and other things and are beginning to resist Trump heading into the mid-terms. <\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s fixation on total control terrifies insiders<\/a><\/p>\n

The outrageous situation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, as many have now said, is a metaphor for this entire administration. A swampy green mess, it\u2019s now belching up the brand-new blue coating Trump had spent 14 million dollars on\u2014using no-bid contracts\u2014as it just peels away and floats to the top. Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Incompetence. Failure.<\/p>\n

The regime also backed off\u2014at least partially\u2014from its plan to put thousands of migrants in concentration camps, selling warehouses it bought for $700 million for that reason, as communities and local governments pushed back. As the New York Times reports, \u201cin a major turnabout, the agency is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright.\u201d It doesn\u2019t mean mass deportations are over by any stretch. But it does show we can put them on the defensive and spare at least some of the thousands from being imprisoned in terrible conditions.<\/p>\n

And the GOP may be seeing that the gerrymandering of maps is creating a backlash that could take a massive bite out of it. In Georgia, after the governor called a special session, the Republican leaders in the legislature decided not to redistrict for 2028, clearly worried about energizing the Black vote\u2014which is going to be energized anyway, because it\u2019s way to late for the GOP.<\/p>\n

Those of you who listen to my show know that the MAGA callers have almost gone silent. They used to call every day to defend Trump. But except for delusional John from Arizona recently, who defended Trump, saying, \u201cI love inflation,\u201d they\u2019ve been running for cover. I think that shows they\u2019re depressed, if not irked and angry about Trump, and many won\u2019t be marching out enthusiastically to vote for the GOP. MAGA doesn\u2019t ever die\u2014and I\u2019ll write about that in a future post and why we can\u2019t ever let our guard down\u2014but it does get fractured and eat itself up now and then, and that gives us opportunities.<\/p>\n

Read more Inside Trump\u2019s new weird obsession with the number 22<\/a><\/p>\n

So I\u2019m looking forward to the fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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