And it’s ON!
Joe Biden makes history with a Vice President pick of the mixed Black/Asian-Indian US Senator from California Kamala Harris….
Unable to make points attacking Joe Biden up to this point?
Trump & Co. wastes no time in going after Harris…
She’s ‘extreme’…’radical’…’leftist’…’liberal’…..”Phoney Kamala’
But GOPer’s know that Harris, a former DA and Attorney General is NOT gonna be a pushover…..
Minutes after Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate Tuesday, President Donald Trump and his allies rolled out the attack playbook they’ve used on every potential Democratic vice presidential candidate: She’s too extreme for America.
In texts, tweets and interviews, they accused Harris of supporting trillions in new taxes, establishing sanctuary cities, cutting police funding and promoting what they called a “radical health care scheme” that would eliminate all private insurance plans.
“She is also known, from what I understand, as being just about the most liberal person in the U.S. Senate,” Trump said at a news conference at the White House. “And I would have thought Biden would have tried to stay away from that a little bit.”
The Republican National Committee, which compiled information on all possible candidates, released a lengthy research document titled “Radical Kamala Harris Gives Democrats The Most Extreme Ticket In History.”
“She is extreme,” said Sean Spicer, Trump’s first press secretary who remains close to the White House. “She could alienate anybody that’s not on the far left.”
Republicans criticized Harris for supporting the “Green New Deal” climate change plan and voting against the vast majority of Trump’s judicial nominees, including his Supreme Court picks. Tea Party Patriots Action called her “a reliable vote for higher taxes, bigger government, and less freedom for individuals.”….
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Privately, some Republicans acknowledged that Harris, the first Black candidate on a major party ticket and daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, would help Biden win over women and people of color. She will be the first woman, first Black and first Asian American vice president if elected….
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In 2011 and 2013, Trump donated twice to Harris for a total of $6,000. Ivanka Trump, a senior adviser to her father, also gave Harris $2,000 just six years ago.
image…Yahoo News
New Open Thread is HERE….
John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
Obama: “Joe Biden nailed this decision”
gotta be sorta careful with the verbs….
The selection of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for vice president — a senator from perhaps the most solidly Democratic state in the union — marks the latest evidence that gender and race have now surpassed geographic balance when it comes to building a ticket for the White House…
More…
Yea CG….
Harwood should know better…
Obama is the one who said it.
Chris Cillizza Retweeted
CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia candidate with ties to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, has won a GOP runoff for a US House seat, CNN projects
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POLITICO Retweeted
John Bresnahan
@BresPolitico
This is a GOP congressional candidate speaking about
@SpeakerPelosi
: “The nominee singled out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), calling her “anti-American” and adding, ‘We’re going to kick that b—- out of Congress,’ the reporter said.”
Election Projection STILL show a strong Joe Biden win ….
270toWin also has a Biden win….
I agree with Obama.
Actually?
Barack Obama has always thought VERY highly of Harris….
So You are going to criticize Obama for the use of the word “nail” – which means “performed perfectly” yet defend Kavenaugh for lying about his use of “devil’s triangle”- which despite what you and Kavenaugh said, has only one meaning.
Hypocrisy to the extreme.
Donald Trump is calling Harris names?
I’m shocked!
Police have identified the “Umbrella Man” who instigated the Minneapolis riots. Turns out he belongs to a white supremist organization. I’m sure that conservatives are outraged.
Morning…..
Yes, because they got caught Zreebs.
Last night this crazy Greene lady called Nancy Pelosi a bitch.
Said “they would remove Nancy from office.” No, Nancy will retire, as Speaker. In 2022.
I’ve seen a few Republicans make the claim that Harris is somehow not black because she is also Asian.
All white guys saying this of course
Stupid…..
Like Obama ..
She’s mixed and will be labeled Black….
She is just who she is….
She…like Obama… I well aware of both sides of her parents…
Trump Vows to Save ‘Suburban Housewives’
President Trump vowed to save “suburban housewives” saying he’ll protect them from an “invasion” of poor people supposedly led by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the Black senator from New Jersey.
Said Trump: “The ‘suburban housewife’ will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood. Biden would reinstall it, in a bigger form, with Corey Booker in charge!”
That sonofabitch Trump spelled Cory Booker’s name wrong.
Maybe he has Keith doing his GhostTweeting
Speaking of ghost Tweeting. Looks like being dead hasn’t stopped Herman Cain from attacking the Biden-Harris ticket.
yeah – that was Pretty incredible. I bet Republicans even had to have doubts if that was really him writing.
To the best of my knowledge, Caine is the most famous person to die of Covid-19.
Musician John Prine is the death from COVID that has shaken me the most.
Plus Prine didn’t attend a Trump rally bragginh about how masks weren’t requirrd.
I think the most famous is probably Roy.
Roy?
Siegfried’s friend.
Morning….
I forgot about him. I was in Las Vegas when he was attacked on stage. though I wasn’t at the show. I just recall all the news vans up and down the strip that night.
Kamala Harris paid tribute to her mixed parents today….
One from India …
One from Jamaica ….
I cringe every time you use that word “mixed”. It comes across as derogatory to me. Seriously, who else besides you refers to multi-racial parents as “mixed”?
According to you, if a person has multi-racial parents, they are automatically mixed up. That term might have been acceptable in the 60s, but not anymore. Show some respect.
Whoa‼️
Ah DSD?
WTF is going on in the Markey / Kennnedy race????
I just saw a poll that is increabke if it isn’t a outlier!
I’ve seen several of their debates in full, but from the little I know of the polls (which as we know are far sparser and less frequent than national polls), I understand Kennedy and Markey to be very closely tied (with, I think, Markey pulling up in recent weeks).
Election 2020: UMass Amherst/WCVB poll shows Sen. Ed Markey with 15-point lead over Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Updated 6:36 PM; Today 6:36 PM
By Benjamin Kail | bkail@masslive.com
In a race that many experts and pundits have called a dead heat, one new poll shows Sen. Ed Markey ahead of Rep. Joe Kennedy III by 15 points.
In a survey of 362 likely Democratic Senate primary voters, including 199 Democrats and 163 independents, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and WCVB poll found that 51% back Markey versus 36% for Kennedy.
Kennedy, a four-term congressman, entered the race in September with massive name recognition and an edge in multiple polls and fundraising.
The Real Clear Politics average over just three polls since April shows Kennedy five points ahead.
Markey, who has served a combined 40-plus years in the House and Senate, has claimed to close the gap as the Sept. 1 primary approaches.
But 12% of UMass Amherst’s respondents said they remain undecided, and the poll had a significant margin of error at 7%.
In February, before the coronavirus pandemic threw traditional campaigning for a loop, a UMass Amherst/WCVB poll showed Markey with a three-point advantage over Kennedy, 43% to 40%.
In the latest poll, Markey garnered more support on a range of issues including the economy, health care, taxes, climate change, transportation and combatting President Donald Trump.
The only issue where likely primary voters favored Kennedy was race relations, by 39% to 37%.
The poll, released Wednesday, comes a day after racial justice took center stage in a WBZ-TV debate, with Markey pushing back against Kennedy’s assertions that the senator had not done enough to eradicate systemic racism during his lengthy career in Congress.
The candidates also challenged each other on their track records, negative campaigning and fundraising.
Ok
First?
That IS a very small poll with a YUGE MOE…
The polls and narrative has been Markey on the ropes and lost….
All the sudden out of thin air the race is close???
Wow!
Something is going on here ?
My own personal opinion is that Joe Kennedy (like Seth Moulton) is a good Congressman for Southeastern Massachusetts (and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) and I wish he’d been content with that.
But he’s shown little in his debates and ads other than his ambition and relative youth, with the implication that he would be more energetic than Sen. Markey. The Kennedy name, of course (like Long in Louisiana), still resonates in Massachusetts, but there’s also a suspicion that Joe III feels some sense of dynastic entitlement. (Patrick Kennedy may have felt the same, but as a naturally modest, hesitant man, did little to show that in Rhode Island). And, needless to say, while few suspect that Ed Markey will leave the U.S. Senate in search of the Presidency, the same cannot be said of Joe Kennedy.
ok….
a little of the ‘Kennedy’ and ‘Clinton’ thing with entitlement ….
Thanks …
To see yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) Markey-Kennedy debate in full [55 min.],
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/08/11/video-sen-ed-markey-rep-joe-kennedy-wbz-debate/
As for the sample size and margin of error, remember that those huge national polls have samples of only 600-1,000.
And subtracting the whole 7% MoE from Markey’s 51% and adding it to Kennedy’s 39% would still leave them essentially tied at 44-46.
Not a good look for the young red headed lawmaker, eh?
Dave, subtracting 7 from Markey and adding 7 to Kennedy would imply that the MOE is 14. A 51-39 lead from a sample of 600 is substantial.
Zreebs, the sample size was 362 likely voters in the Mass. Dem. primary on Sept. 1st.
But for a universe so relatively small, I was trying to compare it to the 600-1,000 samples (often more like 500) of a national electorate of over 100 million. 362 may not tell you everything, but it’s large enough to make fairly-accurate estimates for the whole Mass. Dem. & Ind. primary electorate.
7% MOE is mad crazy though….
362 is Relatively small, but not uselessly small. The margin of error assumes an unbiased sample. Of course the bigger challenge with polling is truly getting an unbiased survey. It is possible for example that supporters of one candidate may be less likely to be available to the pollsters – perhaps for example because they are more worldly and like to travel. This bias is NOT reflected in the MOE.
A second bias is that some respondents may be more likely to lie to pollsters. When I lived in NC, it is believed that some people who said they were voting for Gantt actually voted for Helms in the privacy of the voting booth. So Gantt was leading in the polls prior to the election, but when the votes were counted, Helms would win.
Lastly, I believe that the supporters of less ethical candidates are more likely to cheat. This is probably not that many votes, but I personally know of a voter who has admitted privately to cheating. I personally believe this benefits conservatives in an election, but that statement is purely speculative on my part. Perhaps Conservatives believe that women, gays, blacks or people who talk about social justice are more likely to cheat? If so, then the Democrats would disproportionately benefit.
George W. Bush’s Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was on FOX News saying African-Americans are not that excited about Kamala Harris as VP.
And if anyone has the pulse of Black America it’s Ari Fleischer!
You think FOX could get some AA stooge on there to parrot their Trump talking points.
I know they are down one with Herman Cain gone now but still
Back in California THAT was true….
I doubt it now
But we’d have to have confirmation of that…
BTW?
Kanye West @ 2%?
Couldn’t the Trump campaign recruit Diamond & Silk to give the true proud black woman’s reaction to Kamala Harris?
PEOPLE.COM
TV
Fox News Drops Commentators Diamond & Silk over Controversial Coronavirus Remarks: Reports
April 28, 2020 12:15 PM
Fox News has reportedly cut ties with political commentators Diamond and Silk after they made controversial comments about the coronavirus outbreak.
Fox News and streaming service Fox Nation “no longer have a relationship” with the pair, according to Deadline. The Daily Beast was the first to report the news. (A Fox News spokeswoman had no comment.)
Diamond and Silk — Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richards, respectively — were locked out of their Twitter account following a tweet criticizing the coronavirus stay-at-home order — and instead suggesting that staying indoors with “will make people sick.”
“The only way we can become immune to the environment; we must be out in the environment.” they wrote. “Quarantining people inside of their houses for extended periods will make people sick!”
Though the duo, who have previously proclaimed themselves to be President Donald Trump’s “most loyal supporters,” deleted the tweet, they continued to speak critically of the government’s coronavirus policies.
On Monday, they claimed that self-isolation was taking away from their “freedoms.”
“We are the United States, not Communist China,” they wrote. “This Deep State experiment that we’ve all been suckered into must end or we will no longer have our freedoms or our country. We were asked to go inside to flatten the curve, not the economy. #OpenUpAmerica”
According to Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter, the duo also recently suggested that the number of reported deaths due to the viral illness are inflated and have pushed several conspiracy theories.
Diamond and Silk became popular during the 2016 election, making regular appearances on Fox News. After receiving praise from Trump himself, they began providing weekly videos for Fox Nation after it launched its online video network.
They last posted a video on April 7, but on Monday they tweeted, “Haters keep saying they hate Diamond and Silk, but you can’t hate what you ain’t never loved!”
Trump replied, tweeting, “But I love Diamond & Silk, and so do millions of people!”
Fox actually doing the right thing…..
Louisiana U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2020/08/race-of-day-louisiana-us-senate.html
Trump economic advisor Larry “blow” Kudlow says that voting rights is not part of the Trump Administration’s “game.”
The question then becomes besides lying, mean spirited personal attacks on women, racist innuendos, bungling responses to the greatest public health crisis of the last hundred years,rank hypocrisy , trying to essentially abolish the US Postal Service and defund Social Security and Medicare ,exactly is your Uh “game?”
This is the Republicans last chance. Time to deliver the blow and vote against every single one.
¡¡¡ Never Vote Republican Again ** !!!
** a few rare exceptions might apply…
Right now, no. The whole party has to be taken down. If the occasional rational member of the GOP has to at least temporarily lose their job consider it collateral damage
I know that Scott has been counting the days for this-
At long last, I present, the Maine U.S. Senate Race:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2020/08/race-of-day-maine-us-senate.html?m=0
Dr Fauci talking to RI Gov. Gina Raimondo about schools and pandemic safety (for about 25 minutes):
https://www.facebook.com/GinaMRaimondo/videos/305252004013715/
Morning people….
I suspect with the Harris roll out and the Democratic convention focus next week that Biden/Harris gets will result in a nice bounce in the polls which will drive Trump to say and do MORE stupid stuff….
This is on the twitter world….
Unknown if true or not…
Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer
@RachelBitecofer
This is an all hands on deck moment. Did you ever read a history book and for a minute imagine yourself there, called to make history?
This is YOUR moment.
What are you, specifically going to do?
It will take each and every one of us.
Nothing too big, nothing too small.
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Christopher Mims
@mims
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Trump campaign and RNC is reportedly working on a comprehensive legal strategy to challenge the election after Nov. 3 https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mail-voting/2020/08/13/3eb9ac62-dd70-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html…
Text Shot: And the RNC and Trump campaign advisers are now mapping out their post-election strategy, including how to challenge mail ballots without postmarks, as they anticipate weeks-long legal fights in an array of states, according to people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions.
The campaign plans to have lawyers ready to mobilize in every state and…
John Harwood
new Pew Research national poll:
whites without college degree
Trump 64%, Biden 34%
everyone else
Biden 68%, Trump 30%
Class War.
One might surmise though according to a james post today about the stock market, that only Republicans are profiting in the stock market and making money that way and that perhaps all Republicans are in the stock market.
In terms of wealth, (at least among white people), it seems the more you make, the more likely you are to support Biden, and the less you make, the more likely you are to support Trump.
That’s very different of course from the typical D vs. R paradigm, not that such a thing was always accurate either.
I have been told that money types ARE making more money in the last 3 1/2 years then a long time….
Tax give away in 2017 and the Fed throwing money at them Just COULD be the reason ?
Biden needs the economy to come back but if Warren was his ear and the Dem’s control Congress?
The money train might coming off the rails
Lots of talk today about Trump when given an opportunity to denounce Qanon , which has been labelled a domestic terrorist group by the FBI, Failing to do so.
Instead Trump continued his boosting of that goofball that those Republicans down in Georgia chose as their nominee for Congress .This Qanon follower has already said that she wants to get that “bitch” Pelosi out of the House.
Normally one would take such ranting as just symbolic but when dealing with a domestic terror follower?Who knows?
Really how much lower can this Administration and its supporters go?
Oh I think think things ARE gonna get much worst Jack before Biden gets the reins…
MUCH….
Probably so.
Former Republican George Will has labelled this Administration a “gangster presidency” and indeed that’s what it is.
Supporting this bigot, admitting that they are trying to steal the election by messing with the Postal Service,lies and more lies.
This whole Administration, just a despicable group of “gangsters “spreading hate and bigotry as the country continues to be ravished by the worst public health disaster of our lifetime as Trump continues to cast aspersions on mask wearing.
Insane
I have commented before how it is sad that so many people gravitate towards “anti-heroes” or gangster types.
John Gotti had scores of people who admired him and supported him, far beyond his own syndicate, such as disadvantaged African-Americans in New York City.
Tony Soprano, while a fictional character, was seen as lovable by many.
Putin just a leadership for life….
Yes that’s true.
Gangsters have always had a hold on the American psyche.
The murderous Al Capone was said to be nice to children.
Even outlaws of the old west have been glorified in film , Billy The Kid, Jesse James.
Paul Begala said the other day that many of Trumps followers really don’t believe what Trump says so much as they “want” to believe it.
And here we are.
Quite a commentary on our society at present.
Outsiders might be surprised at the admiration that many Rhode Islanders still profess for the late convicted felon Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci, Junior, sometime Mayor of Providence.
However, as did the Long dynasty in Louisiana, Cianci did accomplish several good things for Providence at the same time he was thinking of new ways to rob her and aggrandize his own position.
The positive achievements of the Trump gang are almost non-existent*, but the destruction they have wrought upon nearly every aspect and constituency of the land they so proudly affect to love will take generations of historians and social scientists to calculate — not to mention all the wasted or spoiled opportunities on existential challenges such as climate change, social inequality and race relations, not to mention public health.
* The only ones I can pull from the top of my mind are Trump’s now-regretted signature of the First Steps act, and possibly the rapprochement between Israel and the UAE.
I posted him up here back a while ago….
GOP Lawmaker Stripped Of Post After Race Remarks
Georgia state Rep. Tommy Benton (R) has been removed as chairman of the House Retirement Committee after a radio interview came to light where he praised Confederate leader Alexander Stephens and disparaged the late Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Public Radio reports.
Benton said the Ku Klux Klan “was not so much a racist thing, but a vigilante thing to keep law and order.”
Of John Lewis, he said: “His only claim to fame was he got conked on the head at the Edmund Pettus Bridge… and he has milked that for 50 years.”
This must be one of the most hate filled,dumbest bastards around.
I mean what did that idiot expect to happen?
From Alexander Hamilton Stephens’ “Cornerstone Speech” — promoting the new Confederate States Constitution and government — in Savannah on 21 March 1861.
Rep. Baldwin undoubtedly believes that it holds infinitely more truth than John Lewis’s renarks at the Lincoln Memorial on 28 August 1963.
… The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.”
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well, that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. …
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2019/03/21/alexander-stephens-cornerstone-speech/
I ALWAYS say that history isn’t as rosy as some would have it to be….
Post coming on this…..
Thanks DSD….
Odd comment.
I don’t know of anyone who has characterized the Civil War and the events leading up to it in “rosy “ terms.
Rasmussen IS proping up Trump’s National Job approval numbers in the Real Clear Politics stats
That he COULD get over because all the people he knows understands?
What is the ‘Black Lives Matter ‘ thing he went out the door questioning?
Plenty like him still floating around….
Current election calendar coundown:
3 day[s] or 0 weeks & 3 day[s] until + Dem. Natl Convention opens on Monday, August 17
10 day[s] or 1 weeks & 3 day[s] until GOP Natl Convention opens on Monday, August 24
46 day[s] or 6 weeks & 4 day[s] until 1st Pres. Debate, Cleveland on Tuesday, September 29
54 day[s] or 7 weeks & 5 day[s] until Vice-Pres. Debate, Salt Lake City on Wednesday, October 7
62 day[s] or 8 weeks & 6 day[s] until 2nd Pres. Debate, Miami on Thursday, October 15
69 day[s] or 9 weeks & 6 day[s] until 3rd Pres. Debate, Nashville on Thursday, October 22
81 day[s] or 11 weeks & 4 day[s] until GENERAL ELECTION on Tuesday, November 3
122 day[s] or 17 weeks & 3 day[s] until Electoral College casts votes on Monday, December 14
145 day[s] or 20 weeks & 5 day[s] until Congress counts Electoral votes on Wednesday, January 6
159 day[s] or 22 weeks & 5 day[s] until INAUGURATION DAY on Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Morning People….
Massachusetts U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2020/08/race-of-day-massachusetts-us-senate.html
You think the old-timer has come back for a win, eh CG?
What about U DSD?
Markey or Kennedy?
Ed Markey
Jim Thompson, the longest serving Governor of Illinois, from 1977-1991, has passed away at age 84.
Rest in Peace
I remember Thompson as being the only Gov of IL through my youth. Always seemed like a good guy.
If I recall he was strongly considered for VP by GHW Bush in 1988. Illinois was still considered a swing state then.
RIP.
From PoliticalWire…
Former Oregon Republican political strategist defines today’s Republican Party:
“It’s TrumpsParty-riddled with conspiracy theories,racism,sexism,and intolerance.Its anti intellectual and anti science.Its corrupt to the core.”
And what do say Jack?
80 to 90% of true believers?
Unimportant, and far too much time is spent here on rather esoteric discussions concerning such matters .80% ,90% 87.567%?Who cares ?
You seem hung up on that irrrlevancy.
These same people ,who say they “disapprove” of Trump ,vote for Senators,Governors and Congresspeople who avidly support him.
Another problem you have is mistaking personal views of Trump among Republicans as meaning something.
They don’t.
A YouGov Poll this week found that almost aThird of Trump supporters either actively disliked him or were neutral in their feelings toward him,yet they still support him.
Countless times here you have regaled us with irrelelevant anecdotes concerning Republicans who indicated some “problem “ with Trump ,then citing that as indicative of declining support for him.
I believe that presently approximately 90-95% of self described Republicans will vote for Trump.
Remember this as the polls tighten down the line and you start your “WTFs happening.”It will be all those Republicans who don’t “like” Trump coming home.
In addition to all of the above, the GOP has decided that no bridge is too far in its efforts to subvert democracy to keep its hold on power. The party that destroyed/neutralized government departments and agencies from within is now going after the “big fish”, democracy itself.