Here’s what we talked about this morning:
People running for election locally.
The difficulty we face in keeping our volunteers involved and motivated when so many social forces tell them that civic engagement is all about conflict, that their own isolation is normal, or that others in the community are better situated to help.
Why someone running for office in our county would decline our endorsement.
An article about why Republicans have begun to give up on democracy, and how “minority authoritarianism” has become respectable or even orthodox among them [our copy here].