Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for the third time. He plots his promises of revenge, retribution and punishments from a dingy Manhattan courtroom where he sleeps, drools and farts through his criminal trial.
Steve Schmidt
NBC's hiring of fascist election denier and serial liar Ronna McDaniel as an on-air commentator is a new low in the history of television news.
"When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American." Dorothy Thompson, 1937
What is Sean Strickland? He is an American brown shirt, a thug, a loser and a Nazi—though he claims that his Nazi views are in his past.
The president must use the full weight of his moral authority and office to speak to the better angels of our nature against Trump's MAGA wretchedness.
There can be little doubt that Trump would have despised someone like Master Sergeant Edmonds, who stood unflinching with a Nazi pistol aimed at his head and refused to hand over the Jews under his command.
Mike Johnson tried to overthrow a presidential election and throw away millions of legally cast votes. He did it with purpose, intention and conviction that power is served by the lies.
Trump is a philosopher of “f*ck you-ism,” with no plan, no vision and no hope for anything beyond his promises of vengeance.
The collapse of grace, charity and decency that abounds in America is no doubt a problem for us all. So, what are we going to do about it?
In 1867, President James Buchanan said that the Senate was the “world’s greatest deliberative body” because of its reputation for intelligent and impassioned debate. Alas, that is no longer the case.
The American soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guard woman, and Marine are celebrated on Veteran’s Day. On this same day, Donald Trump desecrated their oath by insisting that if he is reelected he will force direct violations of that oath.
Fascism did not thrive in the 1930s because it was strong. It thrived because the democracies were weak. We must understand that in this moment of grave danger.
Everyone should know who Avner Less was. Everyone should know who Adolf Eichmann and Reinhard Heydrich were. When their crimes were discovered the world promised it would never forget, but it has.
No person who loves their country and takes its security seriously could ever even remotely consider voting for Jim Jordan, a preposterous figure whose rise portends a national catastrophe every bit as much as Trump’s did.
America’s authoritarian movement, centered on the support of Trump, has rooted itself within the Republican Party, and the party has sided with the authoritarian dictator of Russia against NATO, the EU, and Ukraine.
Kevin McCarthy is out of his depth and treading water, badly, while suffering under the delusion that he is somehow "the adult in the room."