Good morning. It’s Saturday, Oct. 26. Right here’s what we’re doing in Opinion.
I actually wished to open with some whimsical meditation on the World Series between our Dodgers and the New York Yankees — how our beloved boys in blue enjoying this far into October has a approach of shrinking this city like nothing else can, unifying Angelenos throughout huge geographical expanses and sophistication strains. However the New York Occasions needed to publish a recording of former President Trump’s longest-serving White Home chief of employees, retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, saying the person who has a coin-flip probability of being the following president met the definition of a fascist and would rule like a dictator.
Even on this city, that revelation and one other that Trump wished he had generals like Hitler’s (evidently as a substitute of John Kelly) is a a lot greater deal than a Yankees-Dodgers World Collection. So, put aside the baseball escapism for a second.
The odd factor is, as op-ed columnist Jackie Calmes notes, Trump’s pining for Hitlerian navy management is, together with nearly any assertion he makes having to do with historical past, based mostly on ignorance. For instance:
“Maybe nothing, nonetheless, says historic ignorance a lot as Trump’s current touch upon Fox Information — not his first such comment — that Abraham Lincoln ought to have minimize a cope with the South to forestall the Civil Conflict. ‘Why wasn’t that settled?’ he mentioned on Fox & Pals, prompting a uncommon pushback from a number, who famous that Southern states had seceded earlier than Lincoln took workplace.”
Excellent news is, there’s loads of historic proof to point out why it received’t prove nicely for the USA if we elect a president who desires to spherical up hundreds of thousands of individuals, admires fascist regimes that inflicted mass loss of life and struggling, and needs to, in impact, isolate the American economic system from the world. Again in 2022, I labored on a “Hear Me Out” project that includes letter writers who had survived the Holocaust, a few of whom had been deeply shaken by the state of American democracy and troubled by the right-wing embrace of a mendacity insurrectionist.
Please, with the election 11 days away, learn up on historical past — or simply hearken to the extraordinary warnings of former high-level Trump White Home staffers. Then, you’ll be able to return to watching the World Collection. Go Dodgers, and go democracy.
Vivid pinks, greens and Dodger blue mark the joy of October in Southern California. Creator Susan Straight dispenses with the dig on our season-free local weather with a easy remark: Simply take a look at all the colour. Pink and purple flowers bloom in gardens all through Southern California (many are non-native, however nonetheless!), and with the World Collection again in L.A., the colour palate expands to Dodger Blue.
This Angeleno is rooting for the Yankees. No one’s good, however I see the place creator and former L.A. Occasions e-book editor David L. Ulin is coming from: You’ll be able to change cities however not your childhood baseball crew. Ulin moved to Los Angeles from Manhattan greater than 30 years in the past, and anybody considering of giving him grief about not adopting his new dwelling crew should assume — there’s an terrible lot of blue within the stands when the Dodgers play in different groups’ stadiums, and L.A. expats are a rising species. Baseball loyalty runs deep.
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It’s time to tell the truth about how immigration affects the U.S. economy. UCLA enterprise professor Christopher Tang desires different specialists in his discipline to set the report straight on immigration: “If you happen to’re a doctor and a neighbor asks you a medical query, you’re in all probability glad to share your skilled experience. If you happen to’re a heating and cooling contractor and a pal asks you about her furnace, you probably do the identical. In that spirit, I believe it’s time for enterprise individuals to share what we learn about immigration: that it powers financial development and supplies many different advantages to the nation.”
Hurricane misinformation is coming at a dangerous time. Know-how to start out or steer hurricanes exists solely in science fiction, not actuality. However that doesn’t imply people don’t form excessive climate in one other approach: by burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases. Local weather scientist Andra Garner says that “that is the place we have to focus our dialog — on understanding how local weather change is making these extremes extra harmful, studying what we are able to do to restrict additional warming, and figuring out methods to unravel this human-caused disaster.”
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