Greene is clearly a clown, but clowns can be popular. However, a funny face and big feet don’t qualify you to dictate American foreign policy on Ukraine.
The difference between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Fascists, is empathy. As you go up the empathy ladder, the lower rungs are thronged with MAGAts and what used to be the Republican party.
The simple reality is that conservatives throughout modern history have viewed democracy with a jaundiced eye, and the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees are no exception.
When you get down to the nitty gritty of it, the far right wants to elect candidates who prove their ability to ignore suffering and death inflicted on others, no matter the species.
It's time we stopped giving adult human beings the benefit of the doubt, simply because we think they're not smart enough not to be fooled by religious shysters, fake news peddlers, and political snake oil salesmen.
Trump ran—and won—on rebalancing wealth in this country. He was lying, of course, but that experience now has Americans ready to leave behind Reaganomics and see billionaires pay fair taxes again.
The irony about strongman leaders is that they’re generally not strong people. They use violence and the rhetoric of violence to mask their own fear and weakness.
While it requires lawful due process—your day in court—to take away your gun, red state governors and secretaries of state can take away your vote without even telling you.
Florida's bought-and-paid-for Legislature has delivered a bill that amends Florida statutes to delete all references to climate change. Thanks to them, climate change is gone. Erased. Kaputt. Ya no es. C’est fini.
Conservative Christians’ voluminous accumulated terrors have turned them into what they are now: perpetually petrified human beings whose disfigured, Frankensteined faith has now turned on them.
I know without a doubt that I care about the lives of Republican voters far more than Republican politicians and pastors. I care about them infinitely more than Donald Trump ever could or ever will.
We as Democrats have a lot to worry us come November. But if I were on the other side, the Fascist side, and if I were capable (as they’re not) of thoughtfulness and reflection, I’d be even MORE worried.