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The “October surprise,” that peculiarly American tradition of a last-minute revelation intended to alter the course of a political campaign, has typically hinged on an act of unsavory behavior. Trump won, anyway. Similarly, in early November of 2000, news broke of George W. Bush’s decades-old D.U.I. On Monday, photographs surfaced showing Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee, participating in the burning of a Georgia state flag, in 1992, when she was a sophomore at Spelman College, in Atlanta. An attempt to change the flag nearly derailed Governor Zell Miller’s political career, in 1994, and, eight years later, Governor Roy Barnes lost his bid for reëlection partly as a result of his having successfully removed the Confederate elements from the flag. Elements of the Confederate flag had been incorporated into the Georgia flag in 1956, as part of that state’s massive resistance against the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Fifty-three years ago, Lester Maddox, an entrepreneur who had failed in two previous attempts to be elected to public office, launched a quixotic campaign for governor of Georgia. Maddox won his first political campaign, and was sworn in as governor. The playbook of racist populism that was so key to the victory of Donald Trump in 2016 was perfected in the South—Trump, in effect, treated the entire country as if it were the South in 1966—and the governor’s race is another testament to its durability. It is likely that a part of the state’s population will consider the burning of a Confederate-tinged flag twenty-five years ago to be an act of outrage that is disqualifying for the governorship.

Two days after John McCain’s death and well behind the thousands of glowing tributes that poured in from around the country – and beyond – for the war hero, Donald Trump issued a statement on Monday afternoon saying he respected the late senator’s service to his country. “Despite our differences on policy and politics, I respect Senator John McCain’s service to our country and, in his honor, have signed a proclamation to fly the flag of the United States at half staff until the day of his interment,” the statement said. McCain died on Saturday at the age of 81 from brain cancer and will be buried this Sunday at the US Naval Academy in Maryland. Meanwhile, in his final statement to the nation, McCain emphasized the importance of unity among Americans and urged the country to not “despair of our present difficulties” in a farewell message prepared before his death. I lived and died a proud American,” McCain wrote. ‘It's going to be difficult to fill his shoes’: Arizona remembers John McCain Read more “We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.” McCain’s blunt criticism of Trump factored heavily into his strained relationship with the president, who reportedly rejected issuing an official White House statement praising the six-term Arizona senator after his death on Saturday, even as leaders from across the world paid tribute to McCain as a decorated Vietnam war hero who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. He will be memorialized in ceremonies in his home state of Arizona and Washington DC this week and laid to rest in a private burial on Sunday. Former Presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama are expected to speak at McCain’s memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington on Saturday. In his closing statement, McCain acknowledged he was not without his flaws but said he tried to serve the country “honorably”. John McCain opened Pandora’s box – Sarah Palin came out, but Trump was right behind her Read more “I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them,” he said.

President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to bring back national service to France, which mainly consists of learning how to wave a white flag and surrendering. French national service was scrapped in 1996 after the country declared that it had perfected the act of surrendering. ‘Not a single country on this planet could surrender as quickly and as gracefully as us,’ said President Macron. But a lack of practice has caused France to lose its edge in the art of surrender. There are growing concerns that the French youth have become so weak that their slender arms are no longer strong enough to lift and wave a white flag. ‘How are countries to know we’ve quit when they can’t even see our white national flag?’ said Macron. French teenagers will now be forced to spend six months learning how to wave a white flag, drop to their knees, and beg for mercy. ‘All critical components of the French way of life,’ said the president.

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