Evening Roundup, July 20
Shut down the meltdown, Blanche's disgraceful meeting with Epstein survivors, Hunter Biden, Andy Burham steps up to the plate, The Movement, and Coffee with Contrarians
Spotlight Story
The Number of Votes Needed to Change Everything Is Smaller Than You Think
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This essay is adapted from This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy, available for preorder now wherever books are sold.
Hot Mic
Blanche's Sham Meeting with Epstein Victims Proves He's Unfit
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When I was district attorney of Westchester County, New York, I frequently met with victims of crimes that I had not prosecuted or overseen, sometimes even ones that had happened decades before I took office. But the victims came to me for specific reasons in a time of need, seeking answers. I couldn’t always give them the answers they understandably wa…
Hunter Biden Meets the Moment
By Shalise Manza Young
He has no reason to play nice as he moves beyond scandals and salacious photos.
Foreign Affairs (UK Version)
Beyond Biden and Brexit: Andy Burnham’s Path to Rebuilding the Center-Left
By Johan Hassel
U.S. Democrats should watch closely for their own inspiration.
The opposite of empathy is indifference—the inability or unwillingness to recognize and care about another person's experience or suffering.
But this administration's indifference is driven by cruelty. Cruelty-backed indifference: it recognizes another's suffering and causes, exploits, then dismisses it anyway.
Whereas empathy is the capacity to recognize another's suffering and let that recognition shape their actions. Without it—especially under this president and his cabinet—a nation pays the price through cruelty, division, distrust, hardship, and the erosion of democracy.
I know this is simplistic, but next time, elect people who care about you as a human being, not just a vote.
Nigel Farage is making a comeback I read, just that he’s gaining ground with voters. I have no idea if that’s right but I read it in Substack somewhere recently.