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Jonathan Darman

@jonathandarman.bsky.social
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Journalist and historian. Author of BECOMING FDR and LANDSLIDE.

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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Everyone in the United States must now realise that the Europeans will not go along with this. A line has been crossed here." www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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Umgang mit Donald Trump: No more schmeicheln
In der CDU wachsen Zweifel an der zahmen US-Strategie des Kanzlers: Deutschland müsse klar auf Trumps Zollankündigung reagieren. Noch deutlicher wird Lars Klingbeil.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This fascinating article doubles as a pocket-guide to the Trumpist regime's Establishment collaborators: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"The multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world," reads the inscription on the Anderson Memorial Bridge, a point of entry to Harvard Square. Harvard doesn't always perfectly lived up to this ideal. But today it is doing its part. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It’s like they took the three worst days of the first Trump presidency — Charlottesville, Helsinki and Jan 6th — and used them as the model for every day of the second.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My God. bsky.app/profile/kept...
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
After Chamberlain sold him out at Munich, Czech president Edvard Beneš resigned his office. I'm thinking today of his understated, prescient farewell: "Do not expect from me a single word of recrimination against anyone whomsoever. One day history will judge and pronounce sentence in all equity."
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“It was telling that, in Munich, Vance found time to meet Alice Weidel, the AfD’s co-leader, but not with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.” www.ft.com/content/11f1...
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Vance’s real warning to Europe
Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Go back to 1995 and explain that the Nazis return to power in Germany will be encouraged and aided by an authoritarian America First president allied with apartheid-era white South Africans.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
For @vanityfair.com , I looked back at Mitch McConnell's decision not to push for Trump's conviction in the Senate after January 6th -- a failure that looks worse and worse as the constitutional order slips away www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...
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How Mitch McConnell Blew America’s Best Chance to Stop Trump
After January 6, the Kentucky senator passed on the opportunity to potentially bar the impeached ex-president from returning to office. Now we’re all paying the price.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
For @vanityfair.com , I looked back at Mitch McConnell's decision not to push for Trump's conviction in the Senate after January 6th -- a failure that looks worse and worse as the constitutional order slips away www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...
vanityfair.com
How Mitch McConnell Blew America’s Best Chance to Stop Trump
After January 6, the Kentucky senator passed on the opportunity to potentially bar the impeached ex-president from returning to office. Now we’re all paying the price.
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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
it is beyond even comically brazen at this point
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's a remarkable state of affairs when a member of Congress needs anonymity to say that the Treasury Secretary is in charge of the Treasury Department. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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INDIGNITY @indignity.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Double dictators Trump ran for his second term saying he would be a dictator "for Day One," and his staff made sure to tell the press he was joking. The joke was the part about only doing it for one day. www.indignity.net/double-dicta...
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Double dictators
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 20
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I started reading this bone-chilling article wondering if we still have three functioning branches of government. I ended it wondering if we even still have one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
nytimes.com
Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
America's friends and allies should treat us the way they would a friend experiencing a profound psychosis: Don't try to reason with us, de-escalate when possible, hope that we get the help we so desperately need. bsky.app/profile/trum...
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you wanted to convey an inability to confront an authoritarian constitutional crisis you could consider sending a message like this.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
While we Americans cower in our numbness, apathy, and fear, Germans keep taking to the streets to protest the ascent of the far right: www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
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Demonstrationen: Zehntausende Menschen demonstrieren erneut gegen Rechtsruck
Bundesweit wird auch an diesem Wochenende gegen die AfD und das Manöver von Friedrich Merz protestiert. Allein in Hamburg beteiligten sich 65.000 Menschen an einer Demo.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
FDR in 1940: "A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. The vigorous expression of our American community spirit is truly important. The ancient injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself is still the force that animates our faith." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ah yes, just another fight over visions, like Reagan and Tip.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A spending law, passed by Congress and signed by the President, sets the policy per Article I of the Constitution. A new President can't unilaterally override that policy, even temporarily. And that's the point of this provision of the ICA -- to enforce Congress's power of the purse.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"It's good to be proud of German values, German culture, and not to lose that in some multiculturalism that dilutes everything." Shiver. bsky.app/profile/jwmu...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025
Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.
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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
1/6: For U.S. Presidential Inauguration Day, a short thread of constitutional law and history: The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect on October 15, 1933. It decrees that every President's term ends on January 20.
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It's Martin Luther King Day, even if it doesn't feel like it. Watching Trump assume the awesome powers of the presidency, I am trying to remember King's words: "Physical force can repress, restrain, coerce, destroy, but it cannot create and organize anything permanent; only love can do that."
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...
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Jonathan Darman @jonathandarman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
FDR rode to his inauguration beside a stewing, silent Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt, desperate to break the tension, spotted the brand new Commerce Department building Hoover had constructed on Constitution Avenue. "Lovely steel!" he chirped enthusiastically. Hoover said nothing in reply.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What rough beast Its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Our panel discusses As part of our continuing coverage Today on CNN
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