Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 7:05 PM, for 12h 05m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred fifty-ninth day.
Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM, and the Whitewater School Board’s open session tonight begins at 7 PM.
On this day in 1953, Braves Move to Milwaukee: “the Braves baseball team announced that they were moving from Boston to Milwaukee.”
Recommended for reading in full:
David Leonhardt writes It Isn’t Complicated: Trump Encourages Violence:
He has talked about “Second Amendment people” preventing the appointment of liberal judges. He’s encouraged police officers to bang suspects’ heads against car roofs. He has suggested his supporters “knock the hell” out of hecklers. At a rally shortly before 2018 Election Day, he went on a similar riff about Bikers for Trump and the military.
I’m well aware of the various see-no-evil attempts to excuse this behavior: That’s just how he talks. Don’t take him literally. Other Republicans are keeping him in check. His speeches and tweets don’t really matter.
But they do matter. The president’s continued encouragement of violence — and of white nationalism — is part of the reason that white-nationalist violence is increasing. Funny how that works.
Noah Lanard writes Trump and His Allies Have Lost the Public Debate Over Immigration (“Over the decades, Americans have grown steadily more supportive of immigration”):
Twenty-five years ago, Democrats and Republicans felt the same way about immigrants: The Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds of both parties agreed they were a burden. Immigration critics were confident that those numbers would increase as a backlash to rising immigration took hold among native-born Americans. Instead, the opposite happened. By the time Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign, the share of Democrats and independents who said immigrants strengthen America had nearly doubled, while Republican opinion on the question had barely budged.
And under Trump, anti-immigrant sentiment has fallen even further as the president’s rhetoric about immigrants alienates large swaths of the public. According to a Pew poll from January, 55 percent of Republicans—8 percent fewer than in May 2015—and a record-low 13 percent of Democrats believe that immigrants burden the United States by taking jobs, housing, and health care from native-born Americans. And according to Gallup surveys, 67 percent of Americans now say immigration should be increased or kept at its present level, the highest number since Gallup began asking the question in 1965.
The United States is in the midst of a two-decade-long shift in favor of immigration, and it is only accelerating under Trump. For all the nativist movement’s efforts over the decades to rein in immigration, the chances of preserving a white majority are effectively gone.