@ Axios.com, 6 hrs. ago

By Summers @ Wonkblog @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 22

Jimmy Carter Lusts for a Trump Posting

Interview by Maureen Dowd @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 21, done in Plains GA.

And Rosalyn and him disagree about whether Rusisans influenced the election.

Excerpt:

[....] When I asked about Trump’s souring our image in the world, Carter defended his successor.

“Well, he might be escalating it but I think that precedes Trump,” he said. “The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.”

Holy malaise.

Including link to good Scientific American article.

By Masha Gessen @ News Desk @ NewYorker.com, Oct. 20

Lede: The chief of staff sees his role as controlling Trump. If the President obeys him, then the President cannot be criticized.

Both political parties may be doomed

By David von Drehle @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 20

[....] The truth is, both parties are in crisis — and may be headed for worse [....]

[....] For generations, the major parties have served as rival department stores anchoring opposite ends of America’s political shopping mall. They chose which products to offer and favored certain ones with their most prominent displays. They marshaled big budgets for advertising and thus loomed over the boutiques and specialty stores — the greens, the libertarians and so on — serving smaller clienteles.