Wednesday, July 27, 2016

"The Bar Has Been Set So Low, and the Stakes Are So High"

"But it was Bloomberg, the non-Democrat, who boiled the stakes of the election down to its essence. 'We must unite around the candidate who can defeat a dangerous demagogue,' he said. His ad-libbed conclusion was rousing even in its almost comic lack of praise for the nominee he endorsed: 'Let's elect a sane, competent person.'"

Jonathan Chait at New York reacts to "the election in its essence."

And Chait frames the election as "whether a small-d democrat will defeat an authoritarian."

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