Denmark has decided not to kill all the minks after all. There may be no more need.

* Biden and Democrats in Congress now have an opportunity to win a generation’s long-term loyalty, but only if they deliver the big changes young Americans demand.*

Looking at the question from the other side: how a somewhat different repressive populist could win by catering economically to working-class Americans, if the Democrats fail to do so.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what plutocrats don't want Biden to do. And their pundits are already saying that Biden must compromise with Senator McConnell, since the Republicans may still control the Senate

A compromise between the center-right and the extreme right will not deliver any of the country's needs, neither short-term needs nor long-term needs.

Arguing that few if any other Republicans could succeed at bullshitting the way the wrecker did.

Rebecca Solnit: *Victory is only the prelude. What happens now is up to us.*

It won't be easy to make Biden do anything that displeases the plutocrats. Their power now is much stronger than it was in 1992.

If the Democrats don't win the two Georgia senate runoffs, Biden will find it difficult to pass any laws to improve matters even if he tries. Thus, trying to help win those two elections is a crucial prelude to trying to get Biden to reject ruinous compromises.

The US is deporting political refugees to Cameroon. Some of the people deported a month ago seem to have disappeared, but that will not deter the US from sending more.

Legally, political refugees should not be deported, but deportation thugs torture them until they waive their rights.