👓 ‘I snookered them’: Illinois Nazi candidate creates GOP dumpster fire | POLITICO

Read ‘I snookered them’: Illinois Nazi candidate creates GOP dumpster fire (POLITICO)
Republicans fear blowback from a Holocaust denier’s run for Congress.
How has the state party just sat by and ignored this altogether? Deplorable…

🎧 I Don’t Think I Can Do Anything to Fix It | The Daily – New York Times

Listened to Listen to ‘The Daily’: ‘I Don’t Think I Can Do Anything to Fix It’ by Michael Barbaro from nytimes.com
Representative Tom Rooney, a Florida Republican, talks about the Russia investigation, gun control and his decision not to run for re-election.

This gives me some interesting ideas about how things might be fixed via game theory. In some sense it may also help if we all (both parties) had a common enemy to fight against. During the Cold War it was Communism we fought against which helped us be on the same side, and as a result we were more united. Now with nothing to “fight against” we’re fighting each other.

This is one of the most interesting episodes of this podcast I’ve come across yet.