Recommended Reading: Democracy Dies in Boardrooms

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Derek Beres, Michelangelo Signorile, Anand Giridharadas, John Pavlovitz, Chris Geidner, Steven Beschloss, and Lucian Truscott

The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:

Derek Beres

writes that “Journalism doesn’t exist without editorial oversight and fact-checking. Any society that abandons this process is prone to losing much more, which is exactly what happens when private equity focuses more on profits than news. And anyone who thinks we can’t experience the loss of democracy that accompanies the loss of journalism—’it can’t happen here’—is destined to be humbled.”

Stakes is high

Michelangelo Signorile

writes that “democracy can save us from theocracy. But not if the authoritarian forces get the fix in first, using gerrymandering, the Electoral College, the Senate, and other avenues that don’t reflect majority representation by the people. And remember: theocracy is about ruling from the minority, imposing a harsh, violent reality on the majority.”

The march toward theocracy

Anand Giridharadas

writes that “Trump’s simultaneous identification with the Russian tyrant and the pro-democratic leader he muzzled and killed is less strange than it seems, because it is important to Trump’s project that he be both invulnerable strongman and persecuted martyr. He is a master at performing the Victim King.”

Donald Trump, Victim King

John Pavlovitz

writes that “Trump supporters see his ascendency as a big "F— You" to his predecessor, to the identity politics that they feel has targeted them, and to an ever-diversifying nation that they see as a threat. They want someone to stick it to the world on their behalf, and in their rage-addled state they believe he does that. It's a nationwide emotional health crisis that seems both beyond repair and belief.”

Destroying America to Own the Libs

Chris Geidner

writes that the “Alabama Supreme Court’s attack on in vitro fertilization (IVF), a pair of attacks on marriage equality, and the attack on Nex Benedict in Oklahoma and their death the next day all emerge from the ideology of, devices employed by, and cases decided by this Supreme Court majority. We ignore their connections and danger at the peril of all who do not want this to become our national reality.”

This week, we faced all that the Dobbs justices unleashed

Steven Beschloss

writes that “as these crime show participants made clear at the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), they’re all-in on gaslighting, projecting and remaining untethered from reality if it earns them the golden ticket from Donald J. Trump. And rampant fear-mongering and retribution against perceived enemies? A bonus.”

Becoming Trump’s Accomplice

Lucian K. Truscott IV

writes that “The days that Republicans could say they were pro-life and forget about the details are over.  It turns out that being anti-abortion wasn’t about the fetus as much as it was about the votes. Today, the anti-abortion movement is all about trying to find a way through the minefield the issue has become for them.  Laws about abortion in red states have turned into a pick-your-timeframe smorgasbord.”

What is an old fashioned anti-abortion fundamentalist Christian to do?

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