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Republicans are ramping up their search for a host city for the party’s 2024 national convention, narrowing the list of contenders to four cities.

The cities in contention are Milwaukee, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City, according to a person familiar with the search process. Party officials are planning to visit each of the locations over the coming months before finalizing a decision in the spring.

The deliberations come as the GOP begins its early preparations for the next presidential election. When Republican National Committee members gather in Salt Lake City next month for their annual winter meeting, they are expected to discuss a range of 2024-related issues, including the primary calendar, primary and general election debates and the convention search.

The choice of a convention host city has taken on an important symbolic role in recent years, with both parties using them to deliver statements of intent about competing for important swing states — and to direct attention and organizing resources to those places. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have gone outside a potential battleground for a convention city since 2004, though coronavirus interfered with both parties’ plans in 2020.

"While, under normal conditions, maintaining democracy and rights is typically compatible with guaranteeing safety, in emergency situations, conflicts between these two aspects of legitimacy can and often do arise," assistant professor of political theory at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Ross Mittiga writes in the study’s abstract. "A salient example of this is the COVID-19 pandemic, during which severe limitations on free movement and association have become legitimate techniques of government. Climate change poses an even graver threat to public safety. Consequently, I argue, legitimacy may require a similarly authoritarian approach."

The study drew criticism on Twitter, most notably from Alexander Wuttke, political psychology professor at the University of Mannheim, who called the study "disturbing."

"In my reading, it explicitly argues that we must put climate action over democracy and adopt authoritarian governance if democracies fail to act on climate change," Wuttke tweeted.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 3:46 pm https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/0 ... rch-526707

Republicans are ramping up their search for a host city for the party’s 2024 national convention, narrowing the list of contenders to four cities.

No. No. No.

roadscholar wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 12:24 pm And in any case, so what? Clarence and Ginny probably have dinner with extreme right-wingers and other fascists regularly.

WaPo wrote:Among the many works in this year’s public domain trove — now that their requisite 95-year period has ended under U.S. copyright law — are Felix Salten’s original “Bambi, a Life in the Woods” novel; titles by Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker; classic silent films and Broadway songs; and about 400,000 pre-1923 sound recordings.

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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:20 am An actual FORT!!! How cool are grandma Moppie and grandpa Poppie!!!!!!

Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:19 pm I'll tell you how great Grandpa and Grandma Daisy are.

One time I visited them with my boys, driving up to Bathysphere or wherever it is back when they were about 6 and 8 years old, and in 20 minutes MrDaisy had produced fishing poles and was leading us down to the pond, along with their three-legged goggie.

The next time we were there, he broke out the grill and cooked bun dogs for lunch. And another time both boys got to swim in the pool.

Oh yeah, trips to see MsDaisy and her husband were ALWAYS a good time!