The outside world continues to watch the spectacle of American politics with a blend of sympathy, sadness, and contempt. But in no arena is their revulsion for what’s happening here deeper than our pitiful reaction to the availability of safe …
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Was Trump a Fascist?
Here’s a great article whose author argues that, where Trump’s policies were brutally neoliberal, racist, nativist, authoritarian, and narcissistic, they were not fascist. I won’t try to summarize, except to say that there are, to be sure, different flavors of …
Tagged with: proto-fascist, this nation came within a gnat's derrière of falling to a dictator, topple American democracy, Trump's attempt to overturn the results of a presidential election, Trump’s policies were brutally neoliberal racist nativist authoritarian and narcissistic, Trump’s policies were not fascist
Convergence of Mainstream Conservatism with the Extreme Far-Right
Wow. Here’s a cheery thought from behavioral scientist and researcher Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D, who specializes in studying disinformation. What she says here is what the past and present might suggest, but will it get that far? Even Fox News …
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“News” Source Reports Trump Landslide Victory
Someone sent me this screen shot from OAN, the ultra-right wing “news” source that makes Fox News seem sane and fair in comparison. Wow! California went Trump. Who would have thought it possible? LOL In reality, Biden won, 11 million …
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GOP Congressman Says He Wants ’18 More Months of Chaos’ to Stall Democrats So Republicans Can Retake Congress in 2022
I wrote a post on this subject recently, but I want to re-express what a vile bastard Chip Roy is, and, by extension, how repugnant the entire Republican party is. We now know, as if we didn’t before: The GOP’s …
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The Demagogue
I wish I knew who wrote the words we see here, but I guess it doesn’t really matter. This is what the United States experienced from 2016 – 2020, and, to an extent, continues to suffer under. Most of us …
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Education Is the Vaccine
Indeed. As Robespierre put it, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” But how to get there from here? In the United States, we have essentially a two-party system, …
GOP U.S. Rep Says His Party Wants “18 More Months of Chaos and the Inability To Get Stuff Done”
From this: Newly leaked video footage of a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices shows Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas openly admitting that his party wants “18 more months of chaos and the inability to get …
Republican Party In Peril
From this in “The Week,” rated as politically neutral: A new deep dive into the 2020 electorate by Pew Research contains mostly bad news for Republicans, whose approaching demographic doom is less racial than it is generational. While it shouldn’t be …
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Embracing the Big Lie
Someone sent me this, along with this note: At least one-third of the nearly 700 Republicans who’ve filed to run for House or Senate next year have embraced Trump’s election lies. This should come as a surprise to no one. …
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