The crude assertion that American slaves learned skills, trades and gained benefits from their bondage is a typical non sequitur from an extremist movement that seeks to evade any moral teaching and history’s judgements.
Steve Schmidt
The Freedom Caucus is a gang, and it is much more dangerous than the Bloods, Crips and MS-13. Like them, it fetishizes violence, but unlike them, it can actually topple the society.
Next year if we, the voters, choose the people who do not believe in elections, as the mechanism by which political power is granted, then we will have had our last election.
The Republican Party's presidential debate for the 2024 election was a complete joke, but none of it was even remotely amusing.
Donald Trump isn't coming to the debate, though the debate will still be about him. It will give his opponents an opportunity to show their mettle, to show their character, who is and who is not terrified of the coming mean tweets.
It is important to understand the desecration and chaos Trump and his mob have wrought with their attack against America. They have normalized conspiracy. They have made the truth and lie equal in a public square.
Mitch McConnell will be remembered by history as a coward. He was a small man in a moment when America needed a giant. He didn’t measure up.
The American people have gotten to know Ron DeSantis, and they don't like him at all—for good reason. His campaign is collapsing. And it will long be remembered as a national joke.
Each GOP candidate running is weak, dishonest and collaborated with extremists. Each person was tested. Each failed that test. Such is the rancid state of America’s Republican Party.
Why have we stopped believing these weapons exist—like all weapons—to be used? ‘Oppenheimer’ helps us remember the world in which we live.
I can’t wait to read the stories about what a secret weapon Casey DeSantis was at the news conference announcing it. Of course there won’t be a lot of staff there because they will have all been long fired.