Republican political and religious leaders have managed to fabricate a nonexistent national danger involving an infinitesimal number of people who are already among the most vulnerable and at-risk communities in this nation.
John Pavlovitz
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, if Trump is so damn for America, how can he hate so many people who call this place home and who dream of calling it home?
How does America endure a President who is mortally allergic to the truth and fluent in lies? The answer isn't in abandoning the truth ourselves.
The invitation to the bigger table is open to the world, and that absolutely includes people across the political aisle, but active hatred and discrimination are not welcome here...
The cognitive dissonance is almost beyond comprehension: to be able to tell yourself a story that you believe in defending the “sanctity of life,” while actively championing the single most common tool used to commit mass murders.
Ignoring fascism doesn’t make it go away; it ensures its survival. We’re here in this precarious place, partly because so many people took the way of least resistance.
So far, the files have exposed this Republican Party as a vile and morally inverted cadre of broken humans marching and voting in lock-step to protect predators and pedophiles and laugh in the face of their survivors.
How do otherwise reasonable, self-respecting adult women find themselves staunch defenders of a man whose entire grotesque body of work declares that he has complete contempt for them?
All hatred is rooted in ignorance, and since hatred is the Republican Party’s sole political platform, they must propagate a steady stream of that ignorance.
If they’re honest, most MAGA Republicans feel more affinity to a vicious, vengeful billionaire in Lex Luthor than in Clark Kent’s alter ego’s boundless benevolence toward the disparate human beings in his path.
Weaponized patriotism is an intoxicant for easily manipulated people whose identities are shaped by those they hate, the neighbors and strangers they’ve been convinced are threats to be eradicated and dangers to be sent away.
Six months after leaving office, Joe Biden is doing the work our sitting President should be doing but cannot and will not do.
No Kings Day was a glorious reminder of how powerful joy, hope, diversity, and our individual and collective humanity are in resisting this Renaissance of hatred—and that we are their caretakers.
There’s a conspiracy of pretending that many of us engage in because we’ve been conditioned to believe that exposing vulnerability or revealing despair are some kinds of character flaws or signs of weakness.
Trump is always looking for his Reichstag Fire—his reason to bring the hammer of the Military down upon the nation. Declaring Martial Law has always been his endgame, and his strategy has been transparent.
Some of Elon Musk's comments in his catfight with Trump have resurrected the question lurking in the minds of many.
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