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.
DeSantis' racism has deep roots, from his racist 2018 gubernatorial campaign against (black) Democrat Andrew Gillum to his non-history book “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," to his dismissal of slavery as a "personal flaw" of the Founders.
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.
Given the brilliant screenplay, acting, and production values of the movie Barbie, it would be naïve not to think it’s had an impact on American consciousness. The question is, how big is that impact?
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.
Elevating masculinity and violence above democracy is just one part of Trump’s and the Republican war against our form of government. But make no mistake, democracy itself is in the crosshairs.
As long as we’re all fighting with each other about history or gender, billionaires and their corporations are free to continue pillaging America while ripping off working people and their families.
We are seeing an all-out assault on democracy in America, coming from multiple dictatorial regimes that have an interest—both financial and political—in seeing Trump back in office.
In Trump's latest charges of obstruction of justice he has ignored a key Nixon lesson: It's not the crime, it's the coverup. He also seems to have missed the memo about conspiracies...
No former president in American history has encouraged violence or tried to inspire stochastic terrorism. Outside of the Confederacy, no politician has worked so hard to tear America apart.
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.
To a large swath of the people, it doesn’t matter what Trump does or how many people are harmed by his growing legacy of crimes and moral offenses—they are riding him into the abyss.