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☆ Opinion | Killing Dogs. Taunting the Homeless. Praising Al Capone. This Is Trump’s Party.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

John McEntee — who started out carrying Donald Trump’s bags and rose to become, in the chaotic final days of Trump’s presidency, his most important enforcer — has a TikTok account. In a video he published last week, he explains how he likes to keep “fake Hollywood money” in his car to give to homeless people. Kristi Noem, thirsty for a bigger role in MAGA world, might have thought she could ingratiate herself by bragging about killing a puppy. Partly in response, they’ve developed what’s sometimes called vice signaling, the defiant embrace of cruelty and disdain for social norms. And no one, of course, does vice signaling like Trump, who keeps comparing himself to the gangster Al Capone.

Persons: John McEntee —, Donald Trump’s, Trump’s, —, ”, Trump, Patrick Bateman, Christian Bale, Kristi Noem, MAGA, ingratiate, they’ve, George, Bateman, Ron DeSantis, Al Capone Organizations: White, Office, South Dakota Gov, Florida Gov

☆ PEPFAR Turned the Tide of AIDS and It’s Now at Risk - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Heritage Foundation critique also argued that AIDS is primarily a “lifestyle disease” and so “should be suppressed through education, moral suasion and legal sanctions” rather than medication. The most dangerous thing a woman there could do, it was said then, was to get married. If American conservatives want to fight AIDS with finger wagging instead of antiretrovirals, those women will again be at great risk. Only 40 percent of Republicans say that the benefits of Covid vaccines outweigh the risks (which is why research suggests that Covid may have disproportionately killed Republicans). The denunciations of PEPFAR horrify the Republican Party’s grown-ups, who recognize how important the program has been.

Persons: Biden, PEPFAR Organizations: Foundation, Zambian Locations: sanctimony, U.S

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