In Ruth ben-Ghiat’s excellent New York Review of Books article, “Co-opt and Corrupt: How Trump Bent and Broke the GOP, she addresses (among other things) how people like Lindsay Graham’s abruptly converted from fervent Trump critic to staunch Trump defender. She explains that Lindsay Graham—who fam ously did an abrupt about-face from fervent Trump critic …
Trump knows he probably won’t get enough votes to win, so his plan is evidently to create chaos with the postal service so that the election will be a disaster, and then use the excuse of the chaos to try to delegitimize the election. We know this because (1) Neither Trump nor his team are …
It was just a matter of time before someone questioned whether Kamala Harris is eligible for the vice presidency because her parents are immigrants. On Wednesday, John Eastman published a piece in Newsweek making just such an argument. This morning, the Trump campaign got into the act when Trump campaign advisor Jenna Ellis told ABC …
First, I just have to say: Kamala Harris: 🎉🥳🍾 Schooley asked this very reasonable question: Seems so simple, right? Trump could just do the right thing, become a hero, and improve his election chances. But he can’t. It isn’t as simple as calling for a shutdown: people without resources would need support, we’d need testing …
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 …
