Rocks and Paper
The rock of democracy lies with the paper.
Whereas an independent counsel appointed by the Attorney General is saving the Constitution; an independent lawyer is saving our ballots. And even today, October 16, another journalist is saving our history.
There are others. They work “in paper.”
Those who intervene in our stupor with autocracy, who put their careers at risk, who are threatened by the bullies and the sycophants — in the end they are the defenders of paper. Some are lawyers. Some are election judges and administrators. Some are journalists:
“When Micklethwait (Editor-in-Chief, Bloomburg News, ed.) corrected Trump’s misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: “It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong.” Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journal — hardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed out — Trump replied: “What does the Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way….. You’ve been wrong about everything…. You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.” — Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, October 16, 2024…
