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.
Opinions & Commentary
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.
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.
Joe Biden will not be damaged by being removed from the White House, but the rest of us will be.
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.