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I live in North Jersey, in one of its two most populous and bluest counties, Hudson County (the other one is Essex County). Wildwood is in the southern most part of the state, in what we call South Jersey. There is a reason Trump held his rally here; it is by far the reddest part of the state, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a conservative Democrat-turned-Republican, is entrenched here. Wildwood is a popular summer vacation spot for rich Wall Streeters. Trump will win fairly easily here. However, Central and especially North Jersey rule the state, where the cities despise him. Even if Trump has a surge here (highly unlikely), he will get no closer than 3% to winning the state, which is what the GOP candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, a Trump supporter, got against Gov. Murphy in the midst of the pandemic in 2021.
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of all the many thousands of people who have appeared on Time's cover since 1923, this one is the most disturbing, even beyond Hitler. There is something uniquely evil about this man. Satan takes human form.
An addition: I noticed some people in the comments are apparently unaware of Time's impact on American and world events over the past century+. The magazine was founded by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce in 1923 as the first newsmagazine, designed to report ALL the news of the week (now twice a month), good or bad, not just part of it. Time set the standard of modern journalism and its covers have launched and destroyed careers. After Hadden died, Luce took the magazine in many different and controversial directions, while making the magazine (and himself) into the most influential news source and cultural symbol on the planet at one time, along with its sister magazines Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated and Time-Life Books. Luce himself wrote an editorial in Life magazine in 1941 titled The American Century that was adopted as US foreign policy right up till the Trump presidency. Over the decades Time has put sinners like Al Capone, Stalin, Mao, Joe McCarthy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Idi Amin, Ayatollah Khomeini, OJ Simpson and Osama bin Laden in addition to saints on its cover. Hitler was Time's 1938 Man of the Year, a far more controversial choice. Trump himself was Man of the Year in 2016. Time has shifted its editorial bias many times: pro-Marxist in the 1930s, anti-Communist from WW2 to the early 70s, pro-dictator on and off in every decade until the 1970s, pro-China until 1949, pro-Republican from Alf Landon in '36 to Nixon in '72 (and maybe Reagan in the 1980s), pro-Christian until its 1965 cover "Is God Dead?". After many years of blandness, I am personally glad that Time, under new ownership, has returned to form as the journalistic trendsetter it once was. The magazine business has been in serious decline since the Internet took off 25 years ago; I'm hoping this cover story will begin to revive interest in a media platform that I have enjoyed since childhood in the 1960s.
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the only "accomplishment" Trump has ever done for NY is repairing Central Park's popular Wollman Rink in 1986. He claimed that he himself had fixed it (where have we heard that line before?) in only four months and under budget, whereas Mayor Koch couldn't after spending millions over 6 years. It was the beginning of the myth of Trump as master builder and he used the hype to his advantage for the next 30 years.
However, there are many catches to this story. Trump agreed to the project if he could manage the rink as a charity, promising that he would donate the profits to the homeless. Instead, he reaped millions for himself over the next 25 years, underreporting its income and shortchanging the city for a huge savings in annual taxes all the while, and never donated a penny to the homeless. Like most of his projects, Trump never actually "built" the rink, he farmed it out to HRH Construction at cost - which the city, not Trump, paid -promising that the resulting publicity would make them famous and in demand. But Trump hogged all the publicity for himself, never even mentioning HRH. It was a one-way sweetheart deal until 2021, when Mayor deBlasio cancelled Trump's contract to manage Wollman and other city parks and recreational attractions.
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I was a registered Republican for most of my adult life; at first it was largely b/c on my native Long Island in the 1970s my mother, who had some connections with local GOP politicians, told me that was the best way to get a county job. It was a patronage system where all Nassau County workers paid an illegal 1% kickback to the party to get and keep their jobs. NYS Republicans were still largely moderate-to-liberal at the time, what with Nelson Rockefeller, whom increasingly conservative national Republicans hated, being the governor for 15 years.
In 1980 I voted for independent John Anderson, a liberal Republican congressman who was the Bernie Sanders of his day, in the first presidential election for which I was eligible b/c I disliked Reagan and bought the propaganda against President Carter (who should have gotten my vote). After I graduated college, I tried in vain to get a corporate job so I turned to teaching instead. Reagan was a very popular president and I was in a (stupidly) jingoistic period of my life so I went along with the crowd and voted for him in '84 (mistake #2, Mondale was the wiser choice). The Cold War with the Soviets and communist paranoia were hotter than ever and Reagan was very good at painting the Democrats as weak on defense.
At the time the Republican party was not yet extremist; they were the party for conformist business types who wanted low taxes, which sounded good to me (I still want tax cuts for the working and middle class but not the rich and I want to ban all billionaires), and I was also pro-life at the time, not understanding its full implications until much later. I even considered running for office but was talked out of it mainly by a letter from Tom Gulotta (I wrote to him for advice), the future GOP county executive who told me that he regretted going into politics and that it was too sleazy to get involved with. Despite my relative conservatism, I couldn't stomach the racist George Bush ads in 1988 so I voted for Mike Dukakis, who summoned the suppressed humanist in me.
Throughout the 1990s I was apathetic about politics in general, and I was pre-occupied with my business aspirations, so I skipped the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections, though I voted locally (mainly for Republicans until I moved to NJ in 1993). I don't regret this decision b/c my opinion of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole remain low, although Dole gets points for his WW2 service.
My evangelical Protestant upbringing re-surfaced long enough to vote for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 - by far my worst 2 votes ever - overlooking the smears against Al Gore and especially John Kerry. Despite the awful job Bush did as president my dwindling reasons to vote Republican lasted another two elections, when I chose John McCain, an honorable man and a war hero, over Barack Obama (who probably should have gotten my vote both times, though I am still not a fan) in 2008. I intended to vote for Mitt Romney in 2012 (but I was in the hospital on election day) as by far the sanest of the Republicans, who were already showing ominous signs of extremism. By early 2015 I had enough, and I turned my back on the Republican party forever, and not a moment too soon, as Donald Trump was just a few months away from announcing his fetid candidacy. Ever since, the U.S. has been in its gravest danger since the Civil War and the rise of Adolf Hitler.
The fundamental reason that led me to pull the trigger on the Republican party, however, was a life-altering personal crisis that began in 2011. I became critically ill from an undiagnosed disease that may or may not be related to diabetes (it's a long story) that nearly killed me and left me permanently disabled. The munificence of the government and the love and support of strangers as well as family made me do a 180 on my own selfishness and has turned me into a complete humanist who has renounced the acquisitive mindset. I now actively oppose all ignorance, bigotry and hate. Though I am no longer an evangelical, I feel closer to the Christ than ever before b/c I am truly following Jesus' teachings and not the world's vanity and confusion.
Although I now vote straight Democrat for civic reasons, I am beyond the pettiness of partisan politics of all kinds. Instead, I focus on finding the best path to a just and enlightening future for humanity.
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