Yesterday I wrote this post asking whether Trump’s lies were wishful thinking, deliberate lies, or pure lunacy. I wrote this: I suspect that some (definitely not all) Never Trumpers want to return to the Republican Party as it was in 2015. So they harp on Trump’s mental unfitness because they want to see Trump as …
A Twitter follower asked: I suspect this particular lie sprang from pure delusion. For me, though, what matters more are the historical patterns, and why 40% of voters—including many who know Trump is lying—line up behind him. We know that lying is a fascist tool. We know that disinformation is used strategically by tyrants. We also …
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You may be feeling whiplash if you’re trying to follow all the latest news stories. Here are a few doozies: Trump has known since early 2019 about the Russian bounty on US soldiers. After spending the weekend denying that Trump had been briefed, the White House released this statement: Yeah, that totally reads like satire. …
In another blow to the Fox-Trump-GOP Evangelical base, the Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion restrictions. I don’t think the MAGA people will be happy about this. [I typed that in the understatement font] Decisions like this one are going the way they should go. Nobody can predict with perfect accuracy what a court will …
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Yesterday 37,077 new Covid-19 cases were reported. Also yesterday, Trump administration filed this Supreme Court brieft to end the Affordable Care and take away health care from millions of Americans. Timothy Snyder calls it Sadopopulism, and explains why modern fascists deliberately hurt their own constituents. Twentieth century fascists wanted power, but they were content not …
Q: If you’re a would-be fascist and you’re losing, what do you do? A: Two of the tricks in Trump’s (limited) bag are: “Get the fighters fighting” and “ignite a cultural war.” Here’s how you accomplish both with one Tweet: (Destruction of federal government property is already illegal: 18 USC § 1361) On the face …
Trump’s greatest con is that he is invincible. (I’ve talked about this in the past on Twitter) The Tulsa fiasco demonstrates what happens when a ‘strongman’ appears weak. Trump has been compared to Hitler. The better comparison might be Mussolini. Weber, in his classic essay, Politics as a Vocation, outlined three sources of authority for …
Information for this post is from Book 6 in my Making of America series, Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was born in Baltimore in 1908. His interest in law, and his awareness of racial injustice was awakened early. A window in one of his high school classrooms faced the local police station. He listened as the all-white police …
A Quiz Believe it or not, my followers on Twitter asked for a test. So I made a Twitter Law Exam with questions taken directly from my posts. Don’t worry. You, too, can take the Twitter Law Exam. #1: Due process applies to: All U.S. citizens All persons in the United States Only people wearing …
Part I is here. (Information from this thread is taken from the report I’m currently working on for the Georgia Voter Protection Organization.) In March when the pandemic hit, the GA Secretary of State mailed applications for Vote By Mail (VBM) ballots to all voters on the rolls: 6.9 million. It was a good idea. …
