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.”
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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.
Authoritarianism has become weirdly attractive to some voters in America and across the Atlantic. Maybe they think it’s the best way to stop the world from changing.
Evangelical Christians actually declare that it is precisely Trump's ever-growing trail of personal toxic discharge that supposedly proves evidence of God's hand in it all.
Life isn't a zero-sum game, despite what you've been told or been led to believe by your pastors and politicians. There's actually enough of everything to go around: money, food, healthcare, opportunity, community.
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.
Evangelical Christians invading and harassing a Pride event aren’t rescuers, they’re bullies. They don’t operate out of love they profess but hatred.
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.
MAGA demands that Americanism be replaced by Trumpism, by allegiance to a single man. A choice has been forced and it is the same as it has been for nine long years: America or Trump.
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.
A movement, being about ideas, has specific, achievable goals. A cult, on the other hand, is mainly about devotion and faithfulness to one person.
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.
After weeks of trial Trump's criminal case in New York moves to closing arguments today and then, finally, to the jury.
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.