Trump's distortion of reality is starting to break. The idea that he can seemingly get away with anything has now been shattered by a long-overdue conviction.
Ultimately, QAnon is underpinned by a trust that’s rooted in fear and anxiety. By overcoming these fears and anxieties, one stands a better chance of escaping its grip.
Trump as a "victim" presents an existential danger to our country. And perhaps the most important people countering this threat are the twelve jurors and six alternates at his current trial in New York.
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.
Florida’s mini-Mussolini has inspired the Conservatives to embrace stupid schemes, such as a rule forbidding schools to teach about where babies come from to any kid under 9, which apparently doesn’t happen anyway.
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.
Our democracy is not guaranteed. The sobering truth is that we are perilously close to losing many of the elemental liberties we assumed could never be taken away. The good news is that we are not quite yet there.
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.
Trump's indictments are also indictments of those who voted for him the first time and the second time, staying faithful through his years of incompetence and unthinkable executive overreach.
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.