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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Thanks for mentioning that article, I'm reading it now!
Jeff Wrangler:
I've begun reading Dexter Filkins' profile of Marco Rubio in the Jan. 19 issue. I mention this because I want to call attention to the second paragraph on page 26. The direct quotations in that paragraph are capitalized--or not capitalized--the way I was taught to do it, and the way I still feel is correct. Here's an example from that paragraph.
"Trump boasted of 'an assault like people have not seen since World War Two,' and said, 'We're a respected country again. ...'"
The first quotation in that sentence is not a complete sentence, so "an" is not capitalized. The second quotation is a complete sentence, so "We're" is capitalized.
serious crayons:
Yes, that's how I would do it, too.
Jeff Wrangler:
Today I read, or, rather, finished, "One Direction: How the Right Gets Organized," by Charles Duhigg, in the Feb. 2 issue. It was sort of a duty article, and I was expecting it to be depressing, and it sort of was, but it was also quite interesting in describing how the Right succeeds in organizing--and how the Left fails at it.
I found it interesting because I could relate it to something in that happened in the county where I was raised. A group of parents overturned the Republican majority on the school board in their district by voting in Democrats. They weren't really organized, but they didn't like some of the policies of the Republican majority on the board, so they came together and voted them out because they agreed on disliking some of the school board's policies.
In another district the election resulted in a Republican majority being voted out of office and replaced by a Democrat majority--which promptly voted to end a contract with a conservative law firm that specialized in advising school boards how to get around rules/laws that the parents/voters felt were harmful to transgender children.
The parents might not have agreed on everything, but they agreed on feeling the school board's policies were harmful to children.
This was kind of like what Duhigg wrote in his article, describing how the Right gets together groups of people who agree on one or two issues, which is enough to unite them, even if they don't agree on everything.
serious crayons:
Interesting -- I've never heard of school board members running by party. In Minnesota, even most mayors below the big-city level and city council members run on nonpartisan tickets.
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