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Many Democrats assumed that Americans would ultimately not vote for Donald Trump. But this, Representative Ritchie Torres says, was pure delusion.
@powellAtlantic on the Democratic congressman who wasn’t surprised by the results of the election: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/democrats-lost-voters-ritchie-torres/680599/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQ3LLnDy0r6Dh6VTdRtP8DI&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
How Resilient Is the Emerging Trump Coalition?
It will be difficult for Democrats to reverse these dynamics.
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“Take it from a member of the generation of Ukrainians who successfully defended democracy: To capture a state requires not just a strong leader but an apathetic society,” @ngumenyuk writes:
“Faced with the greatest challenge to our values and our interests in our time, the democratic world is starting to wobble. Many wish the fighting in Ukraine would somehow, magically, stop,” @anneapplebaum writes.
Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war. But Vladimir Putin “wants to show that America, NATO, and the West are weak and indecisive, regardless of who is president, and that his brutal regime represents some kind of new global standard,” @anneapplebaum writes.
What Facebook did to American democracy, by @alexismadrigal
“If the United States abandons Ukraine, European states can start taking steps that the Biden administration, in its excess of caution, did not allow,” @PhillipsPOBrien writes.
In the last months of his campaign, Donald Trump was open about his dictatorial impulses. On “Radio Atlantic,” Anne Applebaum and McKay Coppins speak with Hanna Rosin about whether his win means he will assume a mandate to act on them: