Quotes Of The Day -- The Choice

"As we enter a prolonged period of disease, death and economic pain, we must think hard about presidential leadership — about what we need, what we want and what we must demand. [Franklin D.] Roosevelt met the moment because of his empathy, his life experience, his faith in America and his insistence on the centrality of fact. We are almost certainly facing a choice in November between Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden. So, it’s time to ask: Which of these men is more likely to approximate our greatest 20th-century crisis president?" -- Presidential biographer Jon Meachum, making the choice in November both a simple one and one of profound importance.

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"This is the bill that’s coming due for the last several decades, during which the Republican party degenerated into an anti-government, anti-science, anti-expertise of every kind death cult. The election of Donald Trump, or someone like him, was the eminently predictable if not inevitable result of that degeneracy.

"Never forget; never forgive. Getting rid of Trump without also eventually destroying the Republican party in its present form is the equivalent of removing a primary tumor when the cancer itself has already become virulently metastatic. Any hope for survival requires a far more radical ongoing treatment of the disease itself" -- Paul Campos, at Lawyers, Guns & Money.