Someone posted this as a comment on one of my Twitter threads: Let’s take stock of where we are, and why we need to stay out of what-if rabbit holes. From Levitsky and Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die, 20th century dictators often came to power through military overthrows. Twenty first century autocrats use less …
Each of Trump’s outrageous actions push us one step closer to what Hungarian scholar Balint Magyar calls a “mafia state,” — the term he uses to describe the kind of autocracies we see springing up in the former Soviet Union. Trump equates himself with America. What’s good for him, is good for the country. That …
There is confusion about this so called “ideological role reversal:” Ideological role reversal continues in Congress as conservative GOP lawmakers savaged FBI Director Chris Wray for being inadequately outraged about #FISA abuses, while Democrats extolled the FBI’s virtues & called for granting it even more powers The “conservative” party was the “law and order” party …
There is confusion about this so called “ideological role reversal:” Ideological role reversal continues in Congress as conservative GOP lawmakers savaged FBI Director Chris Wray for being inadequately outraged about #FISA abuses, while Democrats extolled the FBI’s virtues & called for granting it even more powers The “conservative” party was the “law and order” party …
The biggest problems we are are facing now is that the president of the US is using highly effective fascist-style propaganda on US citizens. First I’ll discuss the problem. Then solutions. Propaganda techniques being weaponized by Trump include “bothsidesism” and what one study calls the Firehose of Falsehoods. After Trump’s speech last night, you might …
“It’s clear he wants to kill us,” said Rosanna Arquette after reading about Trump’s love affair with asbestos, a love affair in line with his penchant for policies that cause suffering. It’s time to talk about Sadopopulism again (term coined by Yale Professor Timothy Snyder). You can hear his mini lecture on sadopopulism here. 20th …
Val Demings rocked her final statement when she said, “Innocent people don’t try to hide every document and witness, especially those that would clear them. That’s what guilty people do.” She also reminded everyone that Vice President Pence knew what was happening, which of course, is the reason Republicans voted against additional evidence: They want …
What’s being exposed right now is the depth of corruption in the Republican Party. Therefore, one of the messages deployed by the bots and trolls is that all parties are corrupt. The Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans. Like this: This is standard Russian propaganda. Timothy Snyder explains that Putin doesn’t deny corruption …
The verdict is in: The Senate will refuse to hear witnesses or request documentary evidence. It’s worth pointing out that the party that just voted to exclude witnesses from the Senate Trial of Donald J. Trump is the party that forced Monica Lewinsky to testify via video during the Senate trial about intensely embarrassing personal …
How you felt about yesterday’s defense presentation depends entirely on how you feel about Newt Gingrich’s “win at any cost” advice to the Republican Party. People who think the Republicans should win at any cost were cheering for the outrageous, circular arguments. They believed each one landed a punch. People who think the idea is …
