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Diaranson 23 september 2020

2020 serves another blow as Ginsburg's death ignites fight

Jillson graduated from col-
lege in 1971 and spent two
years in the Army, a student
turned soldier when the
country was reeling from
protests, riots, the Vietnam
War, racial animus and a deep
sense "the whole damn thing
was coming apart.”

These days resemble those
ones, but with crucial differ-
ences, as he sees it. “This feels
like a deeply uncertain and
dangerous time, as in the late
‘60s and early ’70s,” he said.
“But I don’t think the fear is
the same because we’ve now
undergone decades of social
change.”
He points to weeks of stabil-
ity in the presidential race, as
measured by polls, as a sign
that Trump's law-and-order
message doesn't have the
power of Richard Nixon's
and that Trump's talk of anti-
fa radicals has not convinced
people their neighborhoods
will be overrun by leftists in
a Biden presidency.
(AP) — Justice Ruth Bad- Condolences from pub- are never lost or forgotten,” vs. Biden, the feeling that the
er Ginsburg's death drew lic figures across the divide said Democratic Sen. Ed U.S. is going in the wrong The election will settle that
mourners to the steps of the came with opening salvos in Markey of Massachusetts. direction hit its highest point question. Meantime there are
Supreme Court, where they the struggle over her replace- in Trump's presidency in the fights to be fought across the
sang “Amazing Grace” in the ment. Republicans are press- Mobilize. Organize. Fight. summer and remains over- divide and there is rage to be
dark. Fresh off a rally stage in ing for preelection action on To the ramparts Americans whelmingly in negative ter- heard. In the aftermath of the
Minnesota, President Don- a Trump nominee; Demo- are summoned again. ritory. justice's death, the players are
ald Trump learned of the crats for a post-election, The supposed national trau- Nor is the pursuit of happi- bringing it.
loss and praised Ginsburg as post-inauguration nomina- ma that ushered in 2020, a ness going so well. NORC But not Christopher Sca-
an “amazing” woman. Such tion that they hope will come president’s impeachment, is polls found that since the lia, son of the late Supreme
grace notes didn’t last long. from a new president, Joe all but forgotten because it pandemic began, Americans Court Justice Antonin Scalia,
They were overwhelmed as Biden. Trump says he'll name segued into so much more. are less likely to call them- a conservative foil to the lib-
swiftly as the sagebrush of his choice this week. All of it plays out as the novel selves very happy than in sur- eral Ginsburg who also hap-
Western wildfires, little boats Protesters are protesting. coronavirus infects tens of veys conducted over nearly pened to be a dear friend.
in the hurricanes and hospi- The political battle is joined. thousands more people in the last 50 years.
tals at the height of infections Campaign money is being the U.S. each day and deaths On Twitter, the son told the
in this year of calamity and a leveraged from Ginsburg's from it mount, soon to pass Trump supporter Chris Hol- story of his father getting
book named “Rage.” death by both sides. It's the 200,000. And soon to be lay- mes, a 58-year old engineer two dozen roses to take to
American way. ered with the flu season. from Fayetteville, North Ginsburg for her birthday,
With a court seat open, yet “Today people feel the inse- Carolina, who attended not long before his death in
another fiery fight is lit be- “BREAKING: The future of curity and they feel it in al- Trump's rally, said a preelec- 2016. A judge visiting Scalia's
tween partisans clashing over the Supreme Court is on the most every venue,” said his- tion nomination fight is not chamber saw them on the
matters of racism, policing, line,” said a fundraising email torian Cal Jillson of Southern what the country needs or desk and asked why he would
masks, lockdowns, how to from Republican Sen. Joni Methodist University. “The what Republicans should give flowers to a justice who
vote and for whom to vote, as Ernst’s Iowa campaign short- presidency is in the hands of take on in these incendiary never helped him win a 5-4
one crisis after another pum- ly after the justice's death was a serial disrupter. Congress is times. He's already worried decision in a major case.
mels the country, bringing no announced. polarized and often immobi- about what might happen "Some things are more im-
unity and no common he- “Fill that seat,” Trump sup- lized. The court is balanced after Nov. 3, Election Day, if portant than votes,” Justice
roes, just another flashpoint. porters chanted at his North on a knife’s edge.” the result is contested or un- Scalia replied.
How many more of them can Carolina rally Saturday, Beyond those pillars, the clear: “Violence is coming.”
America take? Perhaps not when the president playfully structure is stressed, too.
since Weather Underground fake-polled the crowd about
radicals bombed buildings whom to choose as his nomi- Practically every part of gov-
in a drive to “disrupt the nee, seeing opportunity to ernment and public service
empire” and the Nixon-era turn the race around. From — the post office, the Cen-
Southern Strategy seized on the other side, a sign read: sus Bureau, the Justice De-
racism as a political tool has “Ditch Mitch" at a protest partment, the Pentagon, the
the country faced tension and outside the home of Sen- storied public-health institu-
turmoil from so many cor- ate Majority Leader Mitch tions, the national security,
ners at once. McConnell, the Republican intelligence and foreign af-
at the center of the coming fairs apparatus — is roiling
Inevitably, and against her power play. “We must mo- from some form of Trump
last wishes, Ginsburg be- bilize, organize, and remove disruption.
came a political football mere Donald Trump from office About two-thirds of people
minutes after her death was to ensure that her service to polled by The Associated
disclosed Friday night. New our country and her commit- Press are frustrated by the
winds of rage picked up. ment to justice and equality campaign. Beyond Trump