A new article in Foreign Affairs contrasts the comprehensive response to the violent wrong in Europe and the tepid response here. It strikes me that we still have to win the immediate political battles because the Republican allies of the extremist wrong have been blocking action for years – blocking investigation, blocking regulation, blocking investment in all forms of helpful peacemaking. But the reporting by Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Daniel Koehler is sobering to say the least.
A Plan to Beat Back the Far Right
March 4, 2021
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A Plan to Beat Back the Far Right: Violent Extremism in America Demands a Social Response
February 5, 2021Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Daniel Koehler have published the best analysis I’ve seen of what it will take to fight violent extremism from the “Alt-” very wrong, in Foreign Affairs, February 3, 2021
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Constitutionalism and Democracy 