World War II should have been the death knell for fascism, but as we now know, fascism never dies. It just hibernates until the right sort comes along and reanimates it; an apostle of mass-manipulation, of lies, an exploiter of racism.
There’s just no way the future historians are going to believe any of this happened. After witnessing it and writing about it for ten years myself, it’s all just too surreal.
Arguably, the three major upsets in Tuesday night’s election results were that two women and a Muslim man not only defeated Trump's expectations but crushed them.
Trump’s angry. He has an enemies list. He wants his pound of flesh. He has the courts. He has the power. He has immunity. His toadies are all in place. And he’s a mental case.
To ignore a narcissist, or to try to assuage them, or to try to “reason” with them is to empower them. You have to grab the bull by the horns and deal with them.
Portland is a pristine city. Yes, parts of it got trashed during the protests five years ago, and yes, we have a serious homeless problem. As do most big cities these days.
At the ground level, Charlie Kirk’s killing was the result of hate. But the view from thirty-thousand feet reveals that it was also due to the cowardice of an entire political body.
Trump has started establishing America's "state religion" and his Supreme Court has made it official that skin color is fair game when ICE agents are looking for people to abduct.
All those stories you heard about 14 million jobs being created under Biden? Fuhgetaboutit. Just look at these charts instead! All created *specifically* to soothe the anxiety of one extremely irascible and childish ego.
It’s so befuddling that a man like Donald J. Trump, with all his wealth and all his power, isn’t fighting these allegedly false stories linking him to Epstein’s crimes.
Yes, there IS such a thing as “trickle down economics.” It trickles down from the wealthiest Americans, directly into the coffers of the most corrupt politicians.
The only thing now standing between Trump's ability to fully ignore court rulings and thus attaining full dictatorship is the Senate. Not a comforting thought.
Seventy years after the bloody demise of fascism in Europe, a narcissist arose in America who tried to resurrect it in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. And—time will tell—failed.