memeorandum: George F. Will: Fidel Castro and dead utopianism (Washington Post)

7:50 PM ET, November 27, 2016

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Ezra Klein / Vox:

Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won — “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump tweeted. — Donald Trump took some time off from staffing his White House and enjoying Thanksgiving to go on a series of Twitter rampages this weekend.

Andrew Restuccia / Politico:

Trump's false assertions of voter fraud called ‘stunning’ — Donald Trump on Sunday used the platform of the presidency to peddle a fringe conspiracy theory to justify his loss of the popular vote, claiming without evidence that millions of people voted illegally Nov. 8.

Discussion: Washington Post, BuzzFeed, FiveThirtyEight, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and ABC News

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:

Trump: ‘I won the popular vote if you deduct’ illegal votes — declared Sunday he would have won the popular vote if “illegal” votes were discounted. — “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Post, CNN, ThinkProgress, New York Magazine, Mashable, Infowars, WREG-TV, Independent Journal Review, Raw Story, Business Insider, AOL and alan.com

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:

Conway unloads on Romney — Appointing Mitt Romney as secretary of state would be viewed by many supporters of President-elect Donald Trump as a major betrayal, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN on Sunday. — “It's just breathtaking in scope and intensity,” …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Vox Popoli

Andrew Restuccia / Politico:

Trump advisers hit Mitt — Top advisers to President-elect Donald Trump escalated their attacks on Mitt Romney on Sunday, catapulting their long-simmering frustrations on to TV news in an extraordinary public airing of grievances. — In a series of interviews on the Sunday political talk shows …

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, RealClearPolitics, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Hot Air and BizPac Review

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

The Pretend Populism of Donald Trump — For a politician who won the White House by railing against the elites and demonizing the establishment, Donald Trump presented an odd argument for why Americans should believe, as he does, that his adviser Steve Bannon is no racist, anti-Semitic ally of the alt-right.

Discussion: The Mahablog

Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Conway: Trump backers feel ‘betrayed’ by Romney consideration

Discussion: ABC News, Hot Air, LifeZette, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, RedState, BizPac Review, The Geller Report, The Week and Political Wire

Emily Smith / New York Post:
Trump spent Thanksgiving asking: Mitt or Rudy?

Discussion: Law News, Hullabaloo, The Guardian, BizPac Review and Raw Story

ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Kellyanne Conway and Sen. Bernie Sanders — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on November 27, 2016 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: And for more now, let's turn to Republican senator and former presidential candidate, Ted Cruz of Texas.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Politicus USA, Politico, Mediaite and twitchy.com

Ted Cruz / National Review:
The Truth about Fidel and Raul

Discussion: TheBlaze, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Mediaite

David Caplan / ABC News:
Former Cuban Castaway Elian Gonzalez Remembers Fidel Castro as a Father Figure-Turned-Friend

Discussion: Associated Press and Law News

Michael J. Totten / City Journal:
The Last Communist City — A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see

Discussion: RedState and Althouse

Greg Grandin / The Nation:
Fidel Castro, 1926-2016 — The Cuban revolutionary almost outlasted 11 US presidents.

Discussion: Cafe Hayek, Power Line and Washington Post

Washington Post: George F. Will: Fidel Castro and dead utopianism

Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Castro wanted nuclear war [UPDATED]

Discussion: National Review

Jonathan Bullington / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

In Bourbon Street mass shooting, here is what we know so far — One person is dead and nine others wounded after a Bourbon Street shooting early Sunday (Nov. 27), New Orleans police said. The gunfire started shortly before 1:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Bourbon, between Canal and Iberville streets.

Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh and Associated Press

Ian Bogost / The Atlantic:

A Pocket Guide to the Robot Revolution … This therapeutic baby-seal robot makes eye contact and responds to a person's touch and speech. — Furby (1998) — A hamsterlike toy robot that could gradually learn to speak English. Tens of millions of them were sold in the late '90s. — ASIMO (2000)

Katherine Lam / New York's PIX11:

Google fixes NYC Trump Tower name after changed to ‘Dump Tower’ on Google Maps — NEW YORK — Google has fixed Trump Tower's name after an unknown person changed the midtown building's label on Google Maps for several hours on Saturday. — A search for Trump Tower on Google Maps brought …

Discussion: TheBlaze, Daily Mail, New York Daily News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Gothamist, Independent Journal Review, alan.com, BizPac Review and Mediaite

Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:

Trump is ignoring daily intelligence briefings, relying on ‘a number of sources’ instead — His spokeswoman thinks he is getting enough information through phone calls with world leaders. — Last week, the Washington Post reported that President-elect Donald Trump had only received …

Discussion: YouTube

Melissa Leon / The Daily Beast:

Mark Hamill Blasts Trump's Cabinet: 'It's a Who's-Who of Really Despicable People' — A week after Election Day, on the first Tuesday in America's new, uncertain reality, the man who once symbolized a rebellion's hope against a white supremacist empire is aghast.

Discussion: Washington Times, Fox News Insider and twitchy.com

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

GOP senators wary of nuking filibuster — Senate Republicans are wary of making a historic move to nix the filibuster despite growing pressure from conservatives. — Roughly two weeks after Donald Trump — 's White House win, GOP lawmakers are already facing calls to overhaul Senate rules …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Hot Air, The Week and New York Times