by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 14. Also check out John Oliver on how we wished the 2016 election was over, but now we wish it was still going on because “it turns out the ending is even worse.”
- Trump names white nationalist figure ‘Chief Strategist to the President’ (“From the fringes to the Oval Office.”)
- A White Nationalist Is The New White House Chief Strategist (“Steve Bannon, who stoked the flames of alt-right fury while running Breitbart News, is headed to the presidential inner circle.”)
- Steve Bannon’s Dream: A Worldwide Ultra-Right (“Bannon and Breitbart are looking to build a Trumpian media empire in Europe by courting its most mediagenic right-wing extremists.”)
- Blow: Trump’s Rural White America
- Analysis: Breitbart’s Steve Bannon Leads the ‘Alt Right’ to the White House
- Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power’ (“Major liberal funders huddle behind closed doors with Pelosi, Warren, Ellison, union bosses, to lick wounds, retrench.”)
- Trump draws sharp rebuke, concerns over newly appointed chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon (“The announcement has produced intense hand-wringing in Washington and sharp denunciations from political observers and strategists critical of Breitbart News’s close association with the alt-right, a fringe conservative movement saturated with racially insensitive rhetoric and elements of outright white nationalism.” Gotta love the lily-livered language the Post uses, always others who call Bannon and/or Breitbart white nationalists, anti-Semites, etc, not simply an observable, demonstrable, knowable fact that the Post could simply report as such.)
- Donald Trump plans to immediately deport 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants
- 5 takeaways on Trump’s first 5 days (“The president-elect is learning what he’s up against — and so is the country.”)
- ‘Devastating’ election for House Democrats triggers request to Pelosi (“Several House Democrats say they need more time to discuss their leadership makeup.”)
- Kellyanne Conway: It’s up to Clinton, Obama to calm anti-Trump protesters (Hahahahaha, yeah right!)
- Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is Settled Law, Abortion Isn’t (Uhhhhh…alrighty then.)
- Trump Slump Coming? (“But all of this will probably take time; the consequences of the new regime’s awfulness won’t be apparent right away. Opponents of that regime need to be prepared for the real possibility that good things will happen to bad people, at least for a while.”)
- Donald Trump: Women Will ‘Have To Go To Another State’ For Abortions If Roe V. Wade Is Repealed
- The ultimate inside Job: Donald Trump’s transition team is a sordid new swamp of lobbyists, donors, family and Republican retreads (“Drain the swamp? Instead, Trump transition team is revealed as a brand-new bog of cronyism and influence peddling”)
- Trump Country (“Rural Americans have the power to pick our presidents. They just chose a politician who’s unwilling and unequipped to help them.”)
- Juan Williams: Where now for the Democrats? (“Bernie and Elizabeth, the party is yours for the taking. The opening is there for you to channel all of the pain and anger among Democrats. Will you seize it? “)
- The real reason we have an Electoral College: to protect slave states (“In a direct election system, the South would have lost every time.”)
- What Can Donald Trump Do to Screw Up the Planet? (“A lot”)
- Early Trump backer could ride wave in Virginia governor’s contest (“Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisor, says he thinks he’s now the front-runner for the GOP’s gubernatorial nomination next year after he backed Mr. Trump, while his opponents put distance between themselves and the billionaire businessman.”)
- Editorial: Clinton defeat roils Virginia politics, Kaine’s future
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Evidence shows gun deal missed the target (“Honestly, anybody could have predicted such an unsatisfying outcome when the governor folded on this issue. It’s hard to believe that a skilled negotiator couldn’t deliver something more substantive…This was an opportunity squandered and little more.”)
- Virginia environmental leaders bracing for major setbacks under Donald Trump
- Race is on to replace Garrett in state Senate
- New direction from Trump not expected to slow Botetourt wind farm plans
- Rain developing by tonight, then a mostly dry and mild week
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