- Michelle Goldberg @ The New York Times: I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.
Last Tuesday, James Fishback, a 31-year-old running for governor in Florida, was speaking to a packed house at the Queens Harbour Yacht and Country Club in Jacksonville. Every one of the room’s almost 100 seats was taken, and people were standing several rows deep around the perimeter, with more listening from the lobby outside. The crowd was mostly male and very young; several attendees told me they were in high school. A few wore the “America First” baseball caps popular with followers of Nick Fuentes, the influential white nationalist troll.
- Aleja Hertzler-McCain @ The Roys Report: Over 100 Latino Christian leaders say Trump adviser Samuel Rodriguez’s reach is misrepresented
More than 100 Latino Christians leaders signed a statement saying Samuel Rodriguez, an evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump and a go-to voice for Hispanic evangelical perspectives, and news media have exaggerated the size of Rodriguez’s reach as president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
- Sam Adler-Bell @ New York Magazine: The Young Women Leaving the New Right
Defectors say the movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and is now openly “cruel and fickle.”
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
- Samuel Benson @ Politico: Furious MAGA allies lobby Trump to keep deporting migrants
The new Mass Deportation Coalition is pushing the White House to continue with its deportation operation — just as the White House tells GOP candidates to back away from that message.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: In second week of the Iran war, the White House emphasizes ‘fun’ and meme videos
The president and his team have embraced a cavalier, anti-humanist attitude to matters of life and death.
