tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90163814464020770422024-03-05T03:47:03.331-05:00Lylah M. AlphonseWrite. Edit. Repeat. A constant work in progressLMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.comBlogger819125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-1052525823415769462020-06-26T21:00:00.001-04:002020-07-09T11:47:32.091-04:00Beat the Press: Increasing Newsroom Diversity, Facebook Ads, Evaluating Press Secretary Performance<div style="text-align: left;">I'm putting on my media criticism hat tonight on <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/beat-the-press">"Beat the Press"</a> with host Adam Reilly, Northeastern University's Dan Kennedy, former CNN correspondent Dan Lothian, and WGBH's Callie Crossley. We're discussing the uptick in interest in increasing diversity in newsrooms, Facebook's kinda-sorta-maybe stance on violence in ads and posts, and how the latest White House Press Secretary is doing in her post. Here are the clips, in case you missed the show on WGBH-TV:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Diversity in the newsroom</a>: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CUu2rsXv4ds" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Facebook’s new rules</a>: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nfq5BBroSWY" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Evaluating the press secretary</a>:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f-jhHhmxQjQ" width="560"></iframe></div>LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-27253367379515147062020-06-19T22:00:00.001-04:002020-07-09T11:39:00.685-04:00Beat the Press: Stopping Bolton's Book, Pence's COVID Op-Ed, Trusting But not VerifyingTonight, Dan Kennedy, Dan Lothian, Mike Nikitas and I join host Emily Rooney to talk about the media on WGBH-TV's <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/beat-the-press">"Beat the Press."</a> We're discussing the president's lawsuit to stop John Bolton's book (he's also getting lawyers involved against his own niece, who is coming out with a tell-all of her own); the vice president's op-ed about COVID-19 in the Wall Street Journal; how the media has been trusting but not verifying when it comes to the police; and our weekly Rants and Raves. You can watch the whole show right here:<div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/3044142556/" width="512"></iframe></div></div>LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-64610760628144618442020-06-05T20:30:00.000-04:002020-07-09T11:52:04.533-04:00Beat the Press: Covering Black Lives Matter, Trump's Church Photo-Op, Cotton's Op-Ed, Targeting Journalists<div style="text-align: left;">Skype problems notwithstanding, I join Northeastern University's Dan Kennedy, WGBH's Callie Crossley, former WCVB reporter Jorge Quiroga, and host Emily Rooney on <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/beat-the-press">"Beat the Press"</a> tonight. We're talking about the coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests, the coverage of the president's church photo op, the New York Times' op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton, and how journalists are being targeted as they try to cover all of the above. 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We're talking about the arrest of a CNN crew and reporter this morning in Minneapolis, the ins and outs of the president's executive order aimed at social media, whether the mainstream media should just embrace its bias, and our weekly rants and raves. (My rave this week was for Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/05/28/washington-post-executive-editor-martin-baron-delivers-harvard-university-commencement-speech/?fbclid=IwAR3rgTx8JLngtGtpBbP9ED7ymnVzMWs1lXl9MA86bVW4VJ_MZBacSuEQWqM">commencement speech</a> he gave yesterday to Harvard University's graduating class. It's a must-see or must-read for anyone who cares about freedom of speech and freedom of the press.)Tune in to WGBH-TV tonight at 7 p.m., or watch the show below: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/3043192339/" width="512"></iframe></div>LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-5014872289797054112020-04-24T19:30:00.000-04:002020-07-09T12:09:01.275-04:00Greater Boston: Political Reporters Push Back on Trump<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">So pleased to be back on <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/greater-boston">"Greater Boston"</a> tonight, joining WGBH's Adam Reilly and host Emily Rooney for the "Beat the Press" type media-criticism segment. We're talking about how political reporters are starting to push back during the President's Coronavirus briefings. Tune in to WGBH-TV at 7 to catch a glimpse of our home-offices, or watch below as we figure out how to do the show without physically being in the studio (related: this was the first time my kids have seen me wear makeup in a long while!). </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/941xpUxhLVg" width="560"></iframe></div>LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-20132040544930572682020-02-18T11:52:00.001-05:002020-07-09T11:55:10.183-04:00On the Radio: Talking Local Politics and More <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Had a great time at the political round table, talking about local politics with WGBH hosts Jim Braude and Margery Egan, as well as Michael Curry, the deputy CEO and general counsel at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, on WGBH's <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/boston-public-radio">"Boston Public Radio"</a> recently! You can listen to the show <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2020/02/17/boston-public-radio-full-show-2-17-20">online at wgbh.org</a>.</span>LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-15177736965925781672020-02-14T20:00:00.002-05:002020-07-09T11:31:09.005-04:00Beat the Press: Electability, Click-Bait Mug Shot Galleries, Media Partnerships<div data-block="true" data-editor="29eaa" data-offset-key="49cnr-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="49cnr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-offset-key="49cnr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">WGBH's Adam Reilly, WBZ News' Jon Keller, WGBH's Callie Crossley and I joined host Emily Rooney on <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/beat-the-press">"Beat the Press"</a> for Valentine's Day. 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<b>**EDITED to add an 11th thing...**</b><br />
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I'm astonished by how many <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1181563066250678273">lawmakers</a> are <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1181682949865054208">circulating</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1180469998072057856">misinformation</a> about <a href="https://twitter.com/toddgillman/status/1181044792328904705">impeachment</a>. I know I shouldn't be -- they're counting on people being ignorant about the process. Impeachment is not about overturning an election or installing a new leader with a different political ideology. FWIW, here are 10 things to know about impeachment:<br />
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<li>Impeachment and removal from office are two separate things.</li>
<li>Impeachment happens in the House of Representatives.</li>
<li>Conviction -- the decision to remove the person from office -- happens in the Senate (and requires a 2/3 vote).</li>
<li>Senators are not involved in the impeachment process in the House. Representatives are not involved in the conviction process in the Senate.</li>
<li>Mitch McConnell can't stop the impeachment process. He can choose not to convict.</li>
<li>Nancy Pelosi can't remove the president from office. She can vote to impeach -- or censure -- him for his actions.</li>
<li>Witnesses aren't called as part of the impeachment process in the House.</li>
<li>A coup is a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. Impeachment is a charge of misconduct made against a person holding elected office, and the process is outlined in our Constitution. </li>
<li>One can be impeached but not removed from office. Both Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate (and not removed from office). Nixon was not impeached -- he resigned before the House could vote on the articles of impeachment.</li>
<li>There is a line of succession that must be followed if the President is removed from office -- there's no random appointment, the office doesn't revert to the other main political party, the other political party doesn't install someone temporarily. If Donald Trump is impeached **and** removed from office, Vice President Mike Pence becomes President. If Donald Trump is impeached and **not** removed from office, he's still the President and can finish out his term (and run for another one, if he so chooses).<br /><br /><b>BONUS 11th THING!</b></li>
<li>The Trump administration is now saying <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-latest-dem-steps-to-protect-whistleblower-live-updates-2019-10-08/">it will not cooperate</a> with the House impeachment inquiry. But while refusing to cooperate complicates the inquiry -- a refusal to comply can become it's own article of impeachment, because doing so obstructs the investigation and thus obstructs justice -- it doesn't stop the impeachment process. That is: The House doesn't need Trump to comply in order to vote to impeach him.</li>
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Want more? Here's <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-05-16/what-is-impeachment-and-how-does-someone-get-impeached">a primer on impeachment</a>, and <a href="https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/constitution/">here's the U.S. Constitution</a>, handily annotated so you can find more information about various terms and topics. Both are worth a read.LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-27920421157685563832019-10-04T19:02:00.000-04:002019-10-11T11:10:02.695-04:00Beat the Press: Trump vs. the Media, the Globe vs. Sponsored Content<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week, I joined Northeastern University's Dan Kennedy, WGBH's Adam Reilly and Callie Crossley, and host Emily Rooney to dissect and discuss the media. Our topics: Trump's media bashing reaches a new level, The Boston Globe's sponsored celebration of Boston Children's Hospital, CNN's fact-checking the president in real time, Prince Harry's royal lawsuit against the press, and our weekly Rants and Raves (my rave was for <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/amber-guyger-convicted-diverse-jury.html">this Slate article</a> by Mark Joseph Stern, which looks at how having a more-diverse jury affected the outcome of the Botham Jean case). The show is in five segments; you can <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2019/10/08/beat-the-press-full-show-10-04-19">watch the full show at WGBH</a> or check out each segment below.<br />
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LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-83218932063932185992019-09-24T20:00:00.000-04:002019-10-11T11:10:03.002-04:00On Greater Boston: Pelosi Launches a Formal Impeachment Inquiry Against Trump<br />
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LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-47706283501042730292019-08-09T20:00:00.000-04:002019-10-11T11:10:02.863-04:00Beat the Press: Sudden Vacations at Fox News, Conservatives Calling for Gun Control<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tonight on "Beat the Press”, we’re talking about the sudden vacations scheduled at Fox News (Tucker Carlson’s is the latest, after KKK Grand Wizard David Duke applauded his assertions about white supremacy), editorials in conservative outlets calling for gun control, how the media’s fascination with sharks may have led to a small threat becoming a much larger one over time, and our weekly Rants and Raves. (My rave was for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/black-families-once-lived-off-their-southern-farmland-their-descendants-are-struggling-to-hold-onto-it/2019/07/22/37b3132a-a975-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html">this massive Washington Post correction</a>. Watch the clip to see why.) WBZ's Jon Keller, Northeastern University's <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1813701&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDgV74eiE76dWWzEFgmrBcuGmLqwjZiDp9XYR81JTXoSNNiNbUxViG7shFuQvPvNqPVc9ulwDn3ggtA%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/dan.kennedy.355744?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARDgV74eiE76dWWzEFgmrBcuGmLqwjZiDp9XYR81JTXoSNNiNbUxViG7shFuQvPvNqPVc9ulwDn3ggtA&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dan Kennedy">Dan Kennedy</a>, and former Wall Street Journal staffer Roy J. Harris Jr. and I join host Emily Rooney<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> at 7 on WGBH-TV. You can <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2019/08/12/beat-the-press-full-show-08-09-19">watch the whole show online</a>, or you can watch each clip below:</span></div>
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LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-88695792213859989862019-08-02T19:41:00.000-04:002019-10-11T11:10:03.060-04:00Beat the Press: A Tone-Deaf Front Page, Working the Washington Bubble<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tonight on “Beat the Press” we’re discussing The Boston Herald’s tone-deaf front page, whether the media can report on a mass shooting without amplifying the terrorist’s message, the cozy relationship between journalists and politicians in the Washington, D.C. bubble, and our weekly Rants and Raves. (My rave was for <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bots-pushed-divisive-content-misinformation-on-race-during-debates-11564678048?fbclid=IwAR2YgxFfqQ8gPqnJU_Q6FbRHsrKHi_K-x5A_uoFE2AB3uNTH-HFzORVYQ2Q">this Wall Street Journal article</a> on bots spreading misinformation during the Democratic debates.) Tune in to WGBH-TV at 7 p.m. to watch <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1813701&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARAZs9q4NzKI13k9iobh_m8HmonKORYyFUDOzKLo8qiMRHeKW2xd6ODtp7_Nux5nx-EMum1S_-37GsO6%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/dan.kennedy.355744?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAZs9q4NzKI13k9iobh_m8HmonKORYyFUDOzKLo8qiMRHeKW2xd6ODtp7_Nux5nx-EMum1S_-37GsO6&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dan Kennedy">Dan Kennedy</a>, Callie Crossley, Roy Harris, host Adam Reilly and me, <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2019/08/09/beat-the-press-full-show-08-02-19">watch the whole show online at Beatthepress.org</a>, or catch up with the clips below:</div>
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Tonight, Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University, Dan Lothian of Little Park Media, Callie Crossely of WGBH and I put on our media criticism hats and join host Adam Reilly on "Beat the Press." We’re talking about when the media should or shouldn’t call out racism, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins and the Boston Globe, the BBC’s controversial agreement with Iran, and our weekly Rants & Raves. (I had a rare rant: it was for CNN, for the "focus group of average conservative voters" it featured without disclosing that most of them were actually active grass-roots advocates for Trump.) You can watch the whole show below:</div>
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LMAlphonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01123069425655953518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016381446402077042.post-19222492985336872592019-06-21T19:28:00.000-04:002019-10-11T11:10:02.639-04:00Beat the Press: Age and Gender Discrimination at NY1, the Media and Big Papi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tonight, Dan Kennedy, Callie Crossley, Mike Nikitas and I put on our media criticism hats and sit down with host Emily Rooney on "Beat the Press." We're discussing the anchorwomen who are filing an age- and gender-discrimination lawsuit against NY1, how the media is handling the Big Papi shooting, whether the news media is critical enough about the Trump administration's claims about Iran, the risk one photojournalist took to report the news, and our weekly rants and raves. Y</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ou can watch at 7 <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2019/07/03/beat-the-press-full-show-06-21-19">on WGBH-TV</a>, or check out the full show below:</span><br />
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The kickoff event was billed as a megarally to demonstrate Mr. Trump’s campaign prowess and to deliver his pitch for 2020. During his 75-minute speech, the president largely struck familiar notes, boasting about the economy and his judicial appointments while assailing the media and Democrats. Mr. Trump’s ability to energize supporters, such as the roughly 20,000 who packed the Amway Center, will be key as he begins a crucial phase in the 2020 contest... </blockquote>
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He continued to use 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as a political target, complaining about polls that had predicted her winning the election, and suggesting that the Justice Department would continue to search for emails deleted when she was secretary of state. Many Republicans believe those emails were improperly deleted, and it was a rallying issue for Mr. Trump’s supporters during the last campaign.</blockquote>
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Mr. Trump also said he would continue to “drain the swamp,” his metaphor for upending the political establishment in Washington. </blockquote>
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“That’s why the swamp is fighting back so viciously and violently,” Mr. Trump said. “For the last 2 1/2 years we have been under siege.” </blockquote>
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The event had all the hallmarks of the rallies that defined Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. Thousands donned in “Make America Great Again” hats, chanted “lock her up” and “build the wall,” and waved signs that read “Four More Years.”</blockquote>
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At the Amway Center here, Trump told the crowd that his election in 2016 was the result of a great political movement that has been under attack ever since, despite what he described as the great successes of his presidency </blockquote>
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“We accomplished more than any other president has in the first 2½ years of a presidency and under circumstances that no president has had to deal with before,” he said, using the hyperbole that has marked much of his career. </blockquote>
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Trump’s argument for a second term then quickly became a rehash of grievances and false claims from his first campaign, along with a hit parade of Trump rally applause lines. He veered off script to rail at length against the “witch hunt” special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and revisited complaints about the media, “Crooked Hillary” and her missing emails. </blockquote>
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“They are really going after you,” Trump said of the list of enemies he laid out for the crowd. “They tried to erase your vote, erase the legacy of the greatest campaign and the greatest election probably in the history of the country.”<br /><br />And he warned of the threats posed by immigrants, a focus of his presidency that has thrilled his most ardent supporters and caused his critics to accuse him of promoting racism.</blockquote>
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“We passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history — the largest.” </blockquote>
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This is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/fact-checker-most-repeated-disinformation/?utm_term=.37e363c420d5#Trump-tax-cut">a Bottomless Pinocchio claim</a>, our worst rating. Trump’s tax cut amounted to nearly 0.9 percent of gross domestic product, meaning it was far smaller than President Ronald Reagan’s tax cut in 1981, which was 2.89 percent of GDP. Trump’s tax cut is the eighth largest on record — smaller, even, than two tax cuts passed under Obama.</blockquote>
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Trump wound up saying little new in his Orlando speech and he’s probably going to have to do much better if he wants a second lease on the Oval Office. While he’s successfully mobilized the emotions and resentments of a large portion of the electorate, and has commandeered the Republican Party machinery, the biggest fruits of his presidency have been enjoyed by cultural conservatives and his most affluent supporters. Other voters have now road-tested the unproven Trump of 2015 who promised to take a wrecking ball to the Washington bureaucracy, drain the swamp, and negotiate a series of political and economic deals that would benefit average Americans struggling with uncertainty. A significant number of those folks may review Trump’s original promises and find him lacking.</blockquote>
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