It’s almost like Trump spends his day devising ways to enrage and insult people, divide us, and inflict pain. Today, to thrill his Evangelical base, enrage everyone else, and call out American Jews, he tweeted this: Yesterday he said this about Jews who vote Democrat (most but not all of us): “I think any Jewish …
Alternate title: California shows the way California used to be Republican. We gave the nation Nixon and Reagan. Republican candidates won CA in every presidential election between 1952 and 1988 except one: By 1990, CA demographics were changing, with growing Asian and Spanish-speaking communities. Then California’s “Latino and Asian populations boomed in the 1990s.” In …
Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky and conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin agree on how to get out of this mess: The GOP needs to be crushed in 2020 so that a center-right party can arise from the ashes. America needs a center right party. We know how we got into this mess. Over the past …
U.S. Rep Steve King (R-Iowa) asked if not for rape and incest “would there be any population left?” He noted that throughout history, rape was common and women bore the children. Why, he evidently wonders, should things change? During the Kavanaugh hearings, King also said, if sexual assault is the new standard, “No man will …
Placing Rep. Steve King’s “rape and incest” comment into context. Read More »
Good news: Trump is losing. Bad news: He will up the ante on the racism, xenophobia, and hate. The white supremacists will get more desperate. In other words, things will get worse before the election. First, the good news: Here is 538’s approval tracking of Trump over time: Here’s civiq’s: They are roughly the same. …
Max Boot tweeted this: Yes. If the Congressional Republicans performed their constitutional duty and acted as a check on presidential power, he’d be out by now. Instead they shield him while pushing through their agenda. This will prove to be a miscalculation. I meant in the sense that it will backfire on the party shielding …
Today’s episode: Scaramucci (the “Mooch”) turns on Trump after Trump attacked him on Twitter. Yesterday’s episode: Trump pushing conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death. Timothy Snyder explains why we are caught up in the constant drama of a Reality T.V. President. The sources for this thread are Snyder’s book, The Road to Unfreedom, and his YouTube …
Professor Miller-Idriss (sociology and education) explains white supremacy and what drives the shooters in this C-Span interview. Psychologist Karen Stenner (author of the Authoritarian Dynamic) explains how to make them less dangerous. From Miller-Idriss: What we call white supremacy includes the belief that whites face an existential threat. The Great Replacement theory holds that whites …
Responding to nonsense from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves, and GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. Response #1: Tate Reeves Tate Reeves said this: [View my response on Twitter] Hi, Tate. I’d like to talk about two parts of your tweet: “enforce our laws,” and “safety of all Americans.” Let’s start with the “safety” part. The 600+ …
What Trump, the modern GOP, and the shooters have in common: They see themselves as victims. E.W. Jackson believes it’s the demonization of white people by liberals, not white supremacy, that is radicalizing mass shooters. It’s definitely counterintuitive that members of the Fox-Trump-GOP view themselves as victims—but they do. Prof. Jason Stanley explains: The dominant …
