"There Are More of Us" Live From TNR'S Stop Trump Summit

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Ten weeks ago Joe Biden was still the Democratic candidate for president and Donald Trump was…well…still Donald Trump (and he’s only become a more extreme version of himself since).
Yet somehow, these two — one, a decent career civil servant, the other a loathsome career self-servant — were neck-and-neck in polling. And Democrats were losing their shit.

It was then, in mid-May, that The New Republic magazine convened a group of academics, lawyers, journalists, activists, politicians and pundits in Philadelphia for their Stop Trump Summit. It was at once illuminating and comforting for an audience desperate to be talked off the ledge if only for that one afternoon.

The event’s theme song might well have been “How Do You Solve a Problem Like The Donald?”

Now that Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee, it is still worth revisiting that event, because it wasn’t so much about Biden as about the other guy. And though Biden’s handoff and Harris’s launch have gone off fairly smoothly and met with tremendous early enthusiasm, the problem of Trump, like a bad case of impetigo, persists.

Panels ranged from the threats to democracy posed by a second Trump administration (who only this week promised "my beautiful Christians" that if they voted him in it would be the last time they'd ever have to vote), to the impact of the Dobbs decision, to voter registration strategies.
Among the speakers: PA State Senator Vincent Hughes, and podcaster and pundit Molly Jong-Fast.

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