Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.

Rufo invents a problem. It goes viral for and against. There are opeds. Reported features. And at the end whether or not policy changes, a thing that wasn’t controversial becomes controversial. Division is the goal. Destabilizing anything helpful to marginalized people is the goal.

For nearly eight years we have been warning about “autocratic capture,” the phenomenon by which aspiring autocrats threaten to wield the state against business leaders to coerce their loyalty. And here we are. More from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how...

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