I. The Trump Reality Show Before I talk about It Was All A Lie again, a word about Trump’s executive orders. Here’s what his illegal executive orders really mean: The object is to spin Trump as a hero. He wants to fool people, not help people. Welcome to episode 1,503 of the Trump Reality Show: …
I finished reading Stuart Stevens’ book, It Was All A Lie. There’s so much to talk about with this book, I’ll have to do more than one blog post. This is Part I: The Making of the Modern GOP. Screenshots are from the Kindle version. Spoiler: We already knew a lot of this. For example …
In her newsletter, Professor Heather Cox Richardson explained the problem⤵️. Trump (and everyone else) knows he will lose the popular vote. So the Trump-GOP plan is to put lots of barriers in the way of voters. For example, because so many Democrats will be voting by mail, Trump wants to slow down (or even stop) the …
I read Norm Eisen’s book, and I’m ready with my Book Report. You can learn more about Norm Eisen here. (Screenshots are from the Kindle edition.) The book is in the form of arguments to the jury (the American voters) for why Trump must be voted out. For Eisen, the moral, legal, and ethical White …
Living on the West Coast means that by the time I wake up, things have already gotten going across the nation. This morning, I checked my Twitter feed and discovered that Twitter was in meltdown mode because Trump tweeted this: The tweet contained an absurd distinction between “universal mail-in” and “absentee voting,” but of course, …
I finished reading “Let them Eat Tweets” by Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker, and Berkeley political scientist Paul Pierson. I’m ready with a book report. (Screenshots are from the kindle version) Spoiler: Trump and Barr are part of a democracy-smashing machine built by the GOP over the past 50 years. The authors argue that Trump …
The right-wing—which until recently loved the 10th Amendment and revered states’ rights—is now fine with sending federal troops to trample states’ rights. Meanwhile, Trump canceled his convention because of COVID while insisting that schools open. From Andy Slavitt’s thread yesterday: the people dying from COVID-19 are largely “essential workers” and those without the privilege of …
My followers on Twitter today were in meltdown mode—and no wonder. Trump’s acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf has said the administration will not stop with Portland. They intend to go to Chicago, Philadelphia, and other cities ruled by “liberal democrats.” (What are they after? See my post from yesterday.) We also learned that Trump is …
We learned last night that Trump doesn’t want to be “distracted” by the pandemic: Trump isn’t working on the pandemic. He’s busy trying to rewrite the script of the White House Reality Show. The fiction he wants to create is this: The problem isn’t Covid; the problem is the protestors, and only “Strongman Trump” can …
One way to read Mary Trump’s book about her family is as a study of the overlap between fascism and sociopathy. First a brief summary, then analysis. I. Summary Fred—Donald’s father—was a lying, cheating, sociopath. His mother was selfish and needy. Mary opens her book with a quotation suggesting that the villain of the story …
