{"id":53746,"date":"2020-08-25T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:39:00","slug":"maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Maximo Alvarez\u2019s American Dream and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a3944cecf\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a3944cecf\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/#RNC_journal_Maximo_Alvarezs_American_Dream\" >RNC journal: Maximo Alvarez\u2019s American Dream<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/#Urban_beat_Common_Sense_on_Chaos\" >Urban beat: Common Sense on Chaos<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/#Media_desk_Loving_Lockdowns\" >Media desk: Loving Lockdowns<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/#Hate_watch_ADLs_Sick_Sharpton_Romance\" >Hate watch: ADL\u2019s Sick Sharpton Romance<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/#Think-tanker_The_Real_Mail-in-Vote_Risks\" >Think-tanker: The Real Mail-in-Vote Risks<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Maximo Alvarez\u2019s American Dream and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        August 25, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 4:39pm           <\/p>\n<div id=\"featured-image-wrapper\">\n                        Enlarge Image<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maximo Alvarez, founder of Sunshine Gasoline, addresses the RNC Monday.\" id=\"standard-article-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/maximo-alvarez-rnc-speech.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618&#038;h=410&#038;crop=1\" ><\/img><br \/>\n                <span>Maximo Alvarez, founder of Sunshine Gasoline, addresses the RNC Monday. <\/span><br \/>\n                            <span>Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"RNC_journal_Maximo_Alvarezs_American_Dream\"><\/span><strong>RNC journal: Maximo Alvarez\u2019s American Dream<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cA Cuban immigrant businessman whose family fled Fidel Castro\u2019s \u00adregime has been widely praised for a speech in which he told the Republican Party faithful how his family\u2019s story was an example of the American Dream which can only be protected by the GOP,\u201d reports <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>week\u2019s Brendan Cole. Sunshine Gasoline founder Maximo Alvarez told the Republican National Convention \u201chow his father, who only had a sixth-grade education, had fled totalitarianism, first from Spain, and then Cuba.\u201d Alvarez declared, \u201cIf I gave away everything I have today, it would not equal 1 percent of what I was given when I came to this great country of ours: the gift of freedom.\u201d Even Trump foe Preet Bharara enthused, \u201cAgree or not, Maximo Alvarez gives by far the most effective speech of the evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Urban_beat_Common_Sense_on_Chaos\"><\/span><strong>Urban beat: Common Sense on Chaos<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Not six years ago, \u201cBarack Obama made a point of stating that he had \u2018no sympathy at all\u2019 for rioters in Ferguson, Mo., sending 1,500 National Guard troops into the state to enforce a curfew,\u201d recalls Nate Hochman at City Journal. Now, however, \u201cDemocrats are too beholden to their activist base to give voice to such commonsense opinions.\u201d And reporters are abetting them: \u00ad\u201cViolent demonstrations in Portland show no sign of ending\u201d after three months, but \u201cnational <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> have been mostly silent,\u201d showing \u201cinterest only in the presence of federal protective agents\u201d there. But the \u201cnarrative\u201d that any violence is a reaction to federal law enforcement \u201cis getting harder to maintain as the destruction continues\u201d though the feds \u201chave mostly left.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Media_desk_Loving_Lockdowns\"><\/span><strong>Media desk: Loving Lockdowns<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The New York Times attributes the recent drop in COVID-19 cases to \u201ceffective\u201d government restrictions, notes Reason\u2019s Jacob Sullum, which \u201cfits neatly\u201d with its \u201centhusiasm for lockdowns\u201d \u2014 but not with the data. In states that imposed new restrictions after June\u2019s surges, new cases \u00adbegan dropping but the timing didn\u2019t coincide with the closures. And states like Georgia that didn\u2019t impose new rules saw declines anyway. It\u2019s \u201cdifficult to disentangle the impact of government edicts\u201d from \u201cvoluntary\u201d actions. Yet it\u2019s clear \u201cthe curve can be flattened without <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> lockdowns.\u201d And the key to minimizing deaths while waiting for a vaccine is protecting \u201colder, frailer people.\u201d Focus on \u201cthe best ways to do that, rather than recriminations about what went wrong with lockdowns.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hate_watch_ADLs_Sick_Sharpton_Romance\"><\/span><strong>Hate watch: ADL\u2019s Sick Sharpton Romance<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An umbrella group of Jewish organizations has \u201csigned on as a partner in the Virtual March on Washington, an event organized by Al Sharpton,\u201d fumes Tablet\u2019s Liel Leibovitz \u2014 the same Sharpton who, as the force behind the anti-Semitic Crown Heights riots, stands as \u201cAmerica\u2019s only living pogrom leader.\u201d How did this h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en? Blame the Anti-Defamation League. The once-venerable outfit \u201ckashered Sharpton enough\u201d to signal it\u2019s OK to do business with a hater. When ex-Obama aide Jonathan Greenblatt took over the ADL in 2015, the group began devoting its \u201cconsiderable resources not to the hard and often thankless job\u201d of standing up to real hate, but to \u201cglamorous\u201d woke causes. Greenblatt recently joined Sharpton to call on Facebook to censor pro-Trump ads, an \u201codious moral decision.\u201d Given these abdications, it\u2019s time for American Jews \u201cto be our own leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Think-tanker_The_Real_Mail-in-Vote_Risks\"><\/span><strong>Think-tanker: The Real Mail-in-Vote Risks<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The US Postal Service\u2019s problems, Kevin R. Kosar explains at Politico, \u201caren\u2019t the ones everyone is panicking about.\u201d Retirement of mailboxes and sorting machines has been happening for decades. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a logistics veteran, is no \u201cTrump stooge.\u201d The agency has ample cash, with \u201c$13 billion in its Treasury account, more than it has had in years,\u201d as the pandemic has boosted business. But a fall virus surge could trigger a surprise slowdown, and a late demand for absentee ballots could lead to \u201cthe USPS getting a massive crush of ballots dropped on them late and with little notice.\u201d In those cases, it\u2019s up to \u201cstate officials and election workers\u201d to \u201cflatten the election mail curve.\u201d Voters can help by getting and casting their ballots ASAP.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board <\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Opinion News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/25\/maximo-alvarezs-american-dream-and-other-commentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Maximo Alvarez\u2019s American Dream and other commentary&#8221; August 25, 2020 | 4:39pm Enlarge Image Maximo Alvarez, founder of Sunshine Gasoline, addresses the RNC Monday. 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