Monday News: “Mexico’s #AMLO Sweeps to Power in Historic Left-Wing Landslide”; “Trump’s Rage Junkies”; “Immigration storm bears down on Republicans”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 2.

• López Obrador scores resounding win in Mexican presidential race (“Andrés Manuel López Obrador, an anti-corruption crusader, will become Mexico’s first leftist leader since the country began its transition to democracy more than 30 years ago.”)
• Five Takeaways From Mexico’s Election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“Rejecting the status quo…Mexico’s immense challenges…Investors watching warily…Reshaping Mexican politics?”)
• Five Takeaways From Mexico’s Election (“After 18 years of establishment politics, Mexicans decided that enough was enough.”)
• Mexico’s AMLO Sweeps to Power in Historic Left-Wing Landslide (“Winner vows to end graft, violence; he makes investors nervous”)
• Trump says he is unlikely to ask his SCOTUS nominee their stance on overturning Roe v. Wade (“Here’s the catch: He’s working from a list with no known pro-choice candidates on it.” Verrry clever, eh?)
• Senator Collins Says Selection of Anti-Abortion Justice Would ‘Not Be Acceptable’
• Stabbing rampage at Idaho apartment complex leaves 9 refugees injured (“Police in Boise arrested a 30-year-old suspect following the devastating attack.”)
• Mexican Election Could Accelerate Nafta Talks (“One big example: Mr. López Obrador has signaled his administration will be more receptive to Washington’s push to raise labor standards in Mexico—a key goal of both President Donald Trump and Democratic lawmakers in Washington—than had been the government of outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto, according to a U.S. congressional aide briefed on the talks.”)
• Trump: Russia Must Be Proud of Meddling (“Asked by Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo whether he had any comments on, or will support, his congressional allies’ efforts to investigate alleged anti-Trump bias within the FBI and Russia investigation, the president claimed he was trying to stay above the fray — before proceeding to attack the Russia investigation.”)
• Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO (Terrible idea.)
• The Great Russian Disinformation Campaign (“In a new book, Timothy Snyder explains how Russia revolutionized information warfare—and presages its consequences for democracies in Europe and the United States.”)
• Exclusive: Largest U.S. business group attacks Trump on tariffs (“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business group and customarily a close ally of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump’s trade tariff policies.”)
• Donald Trump’s only fixed position on abortion is his disdain for women
• Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters
• Trump’s Rage Junkies (“The Trump apparatus is entrenched, and each day burrows ever deeper into the core of what made America greater, better, different: its slow but steady arc toward more inclusion, equality, openness. Only two things seem capable of offering relief: The elections this year and in 2020, or something damning from the Russian meddling investigation.”)
• Trump Calls His Critics ‘Very Dangerous For The Country’ (“The president tells Fox News that people from ‘the other side’ have ‘radical ideas’ that are ‘bad’ for America.”)
• U.S. has plan to dismantle North Korea nuclear program within a year: Bolton (Riiiiight.)
• Republicans Near Their Goal of Overturning Roe. Reaching It Could Backfire (“Majority that wants legal abortion could vote for Democrats. Surge of female voters may endanger GOP majority in Congress”)
• Trump stands firm on trade, resisting pressure from world, business leaders as tariffs start kicking in
• White Evangelicals Will Never Make America Great Again (“This ‘great’ America ostracizes the marginalized, seeks profits over people on a global scale and uses inflammatory rhetoric to justify its violence. It is a version of America where Muslims are not allowed entry, where buying a wedding cake cannot be a free act for LGBTQ people, where children are separated from their parents and put in cages and all the while a real-estate investor-leader of the free world threatens his nuclear power with impunity.”)
• I Can’t Use Blanche’s Last Name Because It’s 2018. That Bothers Me. (“I am not going to use Blanche’s last name because it is 2018, and she doesn’t have a green card, and there’s this president*, you see. It bothers me that I can’t use her last name because her story is one of which the country used to be quite proud. Blanche is a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country with a sad history of being on the wrong end of western imperialism…”)
• Trump Judicial Pick Who Blogged Favorably About the KKK Had to Withdraw. Now He’s at the Justice Department. (“Brett Talley, who’s also written horror novels and hunted ghosts, returned to a job overseeing other judicial nominations.”)
• This is the fight of our lives. Here’s how we win it.
• Immigration storm bears down on Republicans (“GOP lawmakers can’t hide from a debate that continues to fracture the party.”)
• Left mounts heavy pressure campaign on swing senators over Supreme Court
• Michael Cohen teases new interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
• Scholar warns ‘matters are much worse’ and Trump has ‘changed the trajectory of history’ — not for the better (“We no longer can simply suggest that we’re somewhere at the end of history and that the forces of liberal democracy have won out. That is a delusion, and a very dangerous one.”)
• Corey Stewart speculated to be reason for Virginia GOP chairman’s resignation
• Editorial: Health of the Bay is getting better grades (We need to keep it up!)
• Editorial: Virginia’s stake in the trade war
• Thanks to a new law, the puppy prohibition at breweries has come to an end
• What are the Park Police hiding? (“With its resolute silence, the department is subverting public trust in law enforcement.”)
• Two cities share a name, water and a library. But one is in big trouble. (Interesting article. A LOT of the top-rated questions make variants of the question, why do these folks vote Republican and to hurt themselves badly?)
• ‘I still think I have a lot to offer:’ Three decades later, a Virginia teacher’s words ring true (“Beloved McLean High physics teacher Dean Howarth is leaving to teach at a private school next year. He has a word or two — or many — to say about the state of his profession.”)
• It’s the hottest day of this heat wave, but it will stay steamy through Friday