[Post-midterms turning points as culture clashes get physical]
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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – NOVEMBER 22, 2022  
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_ Post-midterms turning points as culture clashes get physical _

Diversity, Federalist Society style. Credit, Wikimedia Commons

 

* No End to Threats on Democracy’s Life
* Ballot Initiative Wins Show Where the Left is Strong
* The Federalist Society and Abortion Rights
* Activists Turn to Monetary Policy
* Conservatives Drop the Ball
* AAPI Used and Abused
* Red State Roundup 
* Antisemitism is Evergreen
* Every Election is a Climate Election
* Why Esmeralda Spaulding is Leaving Harvard

NO END TO THREATS ON DEMOCRACY’S LIFE
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By Gabrielle Gurley
The American Prospect

The attack on Paul Pelosi validates the fears that Americans have
about post-insurrection political violence sown by Trump and his
supporters: election deniers, neo-Confederates, and other MAGA
crazies. Republican political elites are prepared to treat future
incidents with the same thoughts-and-prayers callousness showered on
the victims and survivors of mass shootings.

BALLOT INITIATIVE WINS SHOW WHERE THE LEFT IS STRONG
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By Benjamin S. Case and Michael McQuarrie
Jacobin

In the midterms, ballot initiatives cut through partisan polarization
to reveal majorities for higher wages, expanded health care access,
and abortion rights. That’s why many state-level Republicans are
attempting to undermine the ballot initiative process.

THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY AND ABORTION RIGHTS
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By Peter S. Canellos
Politico

In _Dobbs_, conservatives have constructed their own crucible. Now,
the agendas of many Federalist Society members will have to pass the
test that _Roe_, in the view of the _Dobbs _majority, did not —
the one that Republican presidents also have invoked in debates over
court appointments: whether a judge is interpreting the law or making
it.

ACTIVISTS TURN TO MONETARY POLICY
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By Pamela Haines
Waging Nonviolence

Determined to challenge the all-encompassing threat of private banks,
a small group in Ohio is leading a campaign to put monetary reform on
the national agenda.

CONSERVATIVES DROP THE BALL

* TRUMP’
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  By Joan E Greve, The Guardian 
 
* TICKET SPLITTERS
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  By Lisa Kashinsky and Jessica Piper, Politico
 
* EVANGELICALS ARE PISSED
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  By Samaa Khullar, Salon

 

AAPI USED AND ABUSED

* POLITICAL RHETORIC INFLAMES ANTI-ASIAN SCAPEGOATING
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  Stop AAPI Hate
 
* WHEN ASIAN AMERICANS FIGHT AGAINST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
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  By Rummana Hussain, Chicago Sun-Times
 

RED STATE ROUNDUP 

* FLORIDA
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  By Renzo Downey, Florida Politics
 
* ARIZONA
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 By Lourdes Medrano, Yes!
 
* TEXAS
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 By Evan Urquhart, Slate
 

ANTISEMITISM IS EVERGREEN
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By John Ganz
Unpopular Front

Antisemitism has fundamentally always been an antidemocratic ideology
with popular affectations: it attempts to poison and denigrate
democratic society by portraying it as racially unclean and always
secretly dominated by an occult interest.

EVERY ELECTION IS A CLIMATE ELECTION
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By Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatch

I find it all too unnerving that climate change didn’t make it into
the midterms in any significant, or even discernible, fashion. Given
how obvious and ominous our global situation already is, why did
climate change not grip American voters the way abortion did? Why was
the possibility of our planet becoming ever less livable not at the
top of the list of issues in the 2022 midterms?

WHY ESMERALDA SPAULDING IS LEAVING HARVARD
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By Paton D. Roberts and Eric Yan
The Harvard Crimson

Spalding described her proposal for an educational initiative called
“Black Artist-Educators Decolonizing and Placemaking.” She wrote
that she believes the program would help institutions and instructors
“move beyond metaphorical commitments to decolonial education, Black
and Native solidarity (respectively), and reparations.”

* democracy
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* political violence
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* ballot initiatives
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* abortion rights
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* Federalist Society
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* monetary policy
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* 2022 Elections
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* 2024 Elections
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* Donald Trump
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* republicans
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* evangelicals
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* Asian Americans
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* AAPI
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* Racism
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* affirmative action
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* Florida
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* WOKE Act
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* Ron DeSantis
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* Arizona
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* latinos
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* texas
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* Antisemitism
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* Climate
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* Esmeralda Spaulding
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* Harvard University
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* Fentrice Driskell
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* trans rights
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