From: Ryan Grim [mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 12:11 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: A Dem upset in a special election -- The Koch brothers of Latin
America -- Trump's opioid commission ideas are shockingly good
In November, Donald Trump carried this House district in Iowa with 58 percent
of the vote Last night there was a special election, and the Republican made a
huge issue out of the fact that his opponent, as a school board member, had
voted to allow trans students to use the bathroom that aligned with their
identified gender. The attack ad came just a month after a local transgender
13-year-old committed suicide. Such cruelty in the name of politics is wrong
under any circumstances, but in this case it turned out to be bad politics,
too. Iowa voters resoundingly rejected the heartless move, handing the election
to the Democrat by a whopping ten-point margin.
So far in 2017, voters have swung an average of 13 points away from Republicans
and toward Democrats. If that keeps up, it's going to be a very bad 2018 for
the GOP, and as this Iowa race shows, their hopes of making transphobia a
political winner for them might not be working out so well.
The Koch brothers of Latin America (Los Hermanos Koch?)
The Intercept's Lee Fang, whose pioneering work on the Koch brothers first
elevated them to the national stage, has a new investigation into a network of
libertarian think tanks that are methodically transforming Latin American
politics. It's a must read.
(Lee is also on Jeremy Scahill's podcast this week, which you can find here.)
Trump's Opioid Commission
Trump held a briefing on the opioid epidemic yesterday and used it to promise
"fire and fury" against North Korea. Yes, that's the setting he chose to do his
mad-man act (or maybe it's not an act). On the topic of opioids, Trump offered
little more than '80s drug-war nostalgia, while his hapless HHS Secretary, Tom
Price, rejected the idea that an emergency should be declared. But underneath
all the ignorance, the commission's recommendations are actually quite good.
Maybe there's some way they can sneak past Trump and Price. Here's my story on
it with Dave Dayen.
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