Good morning. Tell us what you think of this new version of the newsletter at opiniontoday@nytimes.com. NotableTrump’s self-inflicted soybean debacle. “It’s the economic equivalent of his approach to pardons and prosecutions: For his friends, everything; for his enemies, the law.” — Michael Grunwald, contributing Opinion writer It’s never just a joke. “Tragically, the white nationalists’ strategy has worked. It has only taken a decade for hateful, violent talk once limited to the extreme fringes of the far right to become mainstream.” — Roberta Kaplan and Michael Bloch, lawyers who successfully sued the organizers of the 2017 Charlottesville, Va., rally. The president calls diversity a threat. For our founders, it was American. “If the colonies had been a monoculture, the achievement of the founders would have been far less remarkable.” — Leighton Woodhouse, documentary filmmaker Spotlight
Living Through High School, New Babies and the Threat of DeportationA Honduran teenager and his family live in America’s new immigration landscape. ICYMIAmerica still has a political center. “It is no coincidence that as the number of heterodox, compromise-oriented Democrats and Republicans has declined in Washington, Congress has become less functional.” — The Editorial Board ListenMore in Opinion
In Your WordsRe: “The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win” I’ve been hearing that the Dems should move to the center since the days of George McGovern. The only thing that’s happened is that the “center” keeps moving inexorably to the right. But the Dems aren’t winning more elections in the process. Don’t turn the Democratic party into Republican lite. — A comment posted by David from California Read more comments on the story here and check out our Letters to the Editor. We hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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