{"id":63061,"date":"2018-07-18T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=63061"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:53:00","slug":"63061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/07\/63061.html","title":{"rendered":"Politisches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in Munich, 1938 (Wikimedia CC public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It\u2019s time, probably, for me to post some of the links that I\u2019ve been accumulating on broadly socio-political topics lately.<\/p>\n

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First, some of you may be aware that\u00a0Vladimir Putin and his approximate United States counterpart, \u0414\u043e\u0301\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0434 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f, joined together for a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, earlier this week, and that reactions to the press conference have not been uniformly positive. \u00a0Here are a few responses that you may or may not have seen:<\/p>\n

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First, from the superb conservative writer Dr. George Will, who chooses his words with care:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis sad, embarrassing wreck of a man\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Second, from the man who should have been elected president of the United States in 2012 but who will almost certainly be elected senator from Utah in 2018:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRomney: Trump\u2019s remarks at Putin summit \u2018disgraceful and detrimental to democratic principles'\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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This article comes from America\u2019s premiere investigative journal:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDistraught Mueller Burns Every Piece Of Evidence In Case After Hearing Trump\u2019s Critique Of U.S. Intelligence Community\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s some commentary from the conservative magazine National Review<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Likeliest Explanation for Trump\u2019s Helsinki Fiasco\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAgainst Moral Equivalence\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Written before the Helsinki press conference:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMueller\u2019s Latest Indictments Show That \u2018Witches\u2019 Are Very Real\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Not really political, but definitely socio<\/em>(political):<\/p>\n

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\u201cSacha Baron Cohen\u2019s Sexual Harassment, in the Me Too Era\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some items regarding the Supreme Court of the United States:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump could end up replacing 3, even 4, Supreme Court justices in his first term\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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From a pair of law professors:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnthony Kennedy Opens New Chapter in American Pluralism\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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A very interesting and actually quite nonpolitical piece from the Religion News Service:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy Catholics and Jews dominate at the Supreme Court\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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From Vox<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s past decisions on religious liberty mean for the future of SCOTUS:\u00a0Kavanaugh will move the Court sharply to the right \u2014 but some conservative critics say it\u2019s not enough.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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From Christianity Today<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBrett Kavanaugh Is a Good Supreme Court Pick and the Reason Many Voted for Trump:\u00a0A more conservative court is good for America in many ways.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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From one of my favorite conservative commentators, writing in National Review<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Kavanaugh Pick: Lamenting an Opportunity Lost\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Another, from the same writer:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, Brett Kavanaugh Is Going to Kill People Now?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And, yet again from the same writer, this article, which I believe to be making a very, very important point:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow the Kavanaugh Nomination Reveals a Deep Challenge to Our Democracy\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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This, too, is a good piece, worth reading:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBrett Kavanaugh and the Many Sides of Trump: He\u2019s outsourced the Supreme Court to the establishment.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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