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Short Read of the Week for August 12, 2021

Our first choice this morning - the one article you should read this week if you don’t read anything else - is this:

Trump's brazen attempt to overturn the 2020 election: a timeline
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/06/trumps-brazen-attempt-overturn-2020-election-timeline/
[our copy here]

It is astonishing that civic-minded Republicans could defend or minimize a record presented so clearly.

We also chose to echo a recommendation in Robert Hubbell’s August 9th newsletter:

How Democrats Win the Culture War
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/08/how-democrats-win-culture-war/
[our copy here]

Its bottom line is worth repeating: “Democrats might not be comfortable engaging in the culture wars, but they can’t afford not to make a clear contrast between the parties. The Republicans are the immediate threat to our democracy, but the longer-term problem of civic illiteracy remains. If Democrats do not champion American democratic values, Republicans will continue to trample them.”

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Direct link to item: https://tillcodems.org/whats-on-your-mind/2021/8/12/short-read-of-the-week-for-august-12-2021.