Republicans and Trump keep referring to a post-constitutional era where the middle class, civil rights and even the rights of women to vote would rolled back.
Thom Hartmann
The new GOP motto might as well be, “We don’t need no stinkin’ issues; we just want power and revenge for the heroes of the Old South and the New Insurrection.”
Trump and the GOP are pushing brazen lies like people were better off four years ago—when thousands a day were dying from Covid, the economy was tanking, millions had lost their jobs, and people sat in 5-mile-long lines for food banks.
No matter how hard Republicans try to reinvent the Founders and Framers in the image of their libertarian billionaire patrons, the reality is that America was history’s first great liberal experiment.
The bottom line is that we as a nation, voluntarily or involuntarily, have now had the full Republican experience. Which is why we’re no longer listening to the Republican politicians’ BS.
Today’s Christian Taliban made their the first great mission the seizing of control of the rest of the Republican Party. Now that that has been accomplished, they’re coming for the rest of us.
The techniques of irregular warfare are part of what helped the US and western Europe bring down the Soviet Union. Now fascists like Putin and others are applying them back against the United States.
A movement, being about ideas, has specific, achievable goals. A cult, on the other hand, is mainly about devotion and faithfulness to one person.
With Medicare Advantage we are handing billions of dollars a month to insurance industry executives so they can buy new Swiss chalets, private jets and luxury yachts.
Trump's political Teflon coating is at least a hundred times more effective than Reagan’s was in his wildest dreams. Why?
America’s billionaires—along with the rest of us—should be every bit as frightened of the avatars of fascism like Trump, Bannon, and Orbán as they are of the ghosts of the long-dead USSR.
Increasingly, Americans are realizing the cancer eating our democracy is the power of great wealth and Supreme Court-legalized political bribery.
Fully twenty percent of American business is now controlled by private equity, which is draining billions out of our economy every week to stash in the money bins of its morbidly rich owners.
In their pursuit of political power, today’s GOP cynically rejects as quaint and irrelevant even the notion of common decency and carefully following the law while in public office.
Billionaires believe that backing the GOP embrace of authoritarianism and oligarchy to replace the democracy will keep them safe. They're wrong.
Trump has unleashed his inner psychopath and if he wins this election it’s going to get uglier here in America than most people today can imagine.