"How will we look back on this moment?", writes Ben Rhodes in the New York Review of Books of 15 August 2024. With its references to "the horrifying attempt to assassinate Trump" and a potentially "hastily chosen alternative" to United States President Joe Biden's candidacy for re-election, the article's "moment" was between 13 July (the assassination attempt) and 21 July (Biden's withdrawal in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris). Yet Rhodes's point remains in our new moment today: even if Donald Trump loses, "we still won't move beyond the ominous nature of our current predicament." A Harris win won't make Trump's supporters and their authoritarian threat to the United States disappear. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 29 August 2024)
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