Trump doubles down on his racist attack, the Administration proposes further restrictions on refugees and asylum-seekers, and the President heads into 2020 with an electoral college advantage. Then Adam Serwer of the Atlantic talks to Jon L. about Trumpism and the battle for a multiracial democracy.

Show Notes

Trump doubles down

• Trump renews racist attack on Squad: ‘They’re not capable of loving the US’ (The Guardian)
• Trump melts down over Washington Post story about his racist tweets (ThinkProgress)
• Washington Post: ‘He always doubles down’: Inside the political crisis caused by Trump’s racist tweets
• Greg Sargent/ WaPo: New GOP panic about Trump’s racism reveals an ugly truth
• Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant After Pressure From G.O.P. (NYT)
• The complete list of GOP lawmakers reacting to Trump’s ‘go back’ tweet (WaPo)
• Republican lawmakers are behaving worse than Trump (Dana Milbank, WaPo)
• Why ‘send her back’ is even worse than ‘lock her up (WaPo, Max Boot)
• Stephen Miller defends Trump’s attacks on Rep. Omar (WaPo)
• Watch Fox’s Wallace Challenge Stephen Miller on “Send Her Back” Chant (Slate)
• There’s A New Movement Trying To Create An Intellectual Strain Of Trumpism. It Just Doesn’t Know What Exactly That Means. (Buzzfeed)
• Most Americans disagree with Trump’s “go back” tweets — CBS News poll
• In wake of ‘send her back’ Trump rally chants, Democrats reframe 2020 race as fight for the identity of the country (ABC News)
• McConnell Doesn’t Want the Senate to Talk About Trump’s Tweets. Here’s a Way Around Him. (NYT)
• By Republican Standards, Almost Nothing Is Racist (The Atlantic Peter Beinhart)
• Defenders of a Racist President Use Jews as Human Shields (NYT Michelle Goldberg)
• Trump Employs an Old Tactic: Using Race for Gain (NYT’s roundup of Trump’s record on race)
• Democrats Should Unify Behind AOC, Not Pelosi (WSJ / Cenk Uygur)
• Asylum seekers rule change: Trump administration moves to restrict asylum access, aiming to curb Central American migration (WaPo)
• Trump’s immigration policies speak louder than his racist, xenophobic words (WaPo / Catherine Rampell)
• How Democrats Defeat Donald Trump (NYT Frank Bruni)
• Racism is not a distraction; It’s policy (Brookings)
• Democrats divided on how to beat Trump in 2020 as race debate takes center stage
• Moderate Democrats are getting skittish about confronting Trump’s racism. Seriously? (Greg Sargent WaPo)
• Anxious Democratic Governors Urge 2020 Field Not to Veer Too Far Left (NYT Jonathan Martin)

2020

• NYT: Trump’s Electoral College Edge Could Grow in 2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign
• NBC: How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020
• The Washington Post: ‘Win where we won’: As Trump’s campaign boasts of going on offense, its efforts appear squarely aimed at defending his 2016 map
• NYT: Huge Turnout Is Expected in 2020. So Which Party Would Benefit?
• RealClearPolitics: Latest national polling
• Axios: There’s no election polling makeover for 2020
• 538: Should We Take These Early General Election Polls Seriously? $#!% No!
• NYT: A 2016 Review: Why Key State Polls Were Wrong About Trump
• The Atlantic: Trump’s Base Isn’t Enough
• Pew Research Center: Democrats’ Ratings of Party’s 2020 Field: Better Than in 2016, Similar to 2008
• WaPo: An early look at the 2020 class of swing voters
• NBC: Latino votes could swing the Democratic primary. And the candidates know it.
• WaPo op-ed: Joe Biden isn’t the only ‘electable’ candidate. Here’s what Democratic primary voters are thinking — and how to change it.
• The Atlantic: The Electoral Time Machine That Could Reelect Trump
• The AP: Democrats divided on how to beat Trump in 2020 as race debate takes center stage
• NYT: These Are the Mistakes Democrats Don’t Want to Repeat in 2020
• NYT: Anxious Democratic Governors Urge 2020 Field Not to Veer Too Far Left
• Politico: Democrats mimic 2018 House takeover strategy in bid to capture Senate
• The Hill: 2020 Democrats upend digital campaign playbook

Adam Serwer

• The Atlantic – What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
• The Atlantic: Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
• The Atlantic: A White Man’s Republic, If They Can Keep It
• The Atlantic: The Cruelty Is the Point