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"Johnson knew... that the nation's move toward equality would provide a weapon for a certain kind of politician to rise to power... Johnson explained... to his young aide Bill Moyers: 'If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best [Black] man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.'"
— May 03, 2025 10:44AM
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"Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe, who had chronicled Putin's takeover of Russia, noted that 'the only people who were fully prepared to cover the Trump presidency properly were people who knew how authoritarian regimes worked. The Washington press corps, which treats politics as something between a baseball game and a Broadway show, was woefully unprepared.'"
— May 04, 2025 03:07PM
