Category: Republicanism
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Calling Republicans “Traitors” Isn’t Political
Donald Trump was a liar long before the press finally called him one. An authoritarian and a fascist, too. The same applies to “traitor”. He is one and has been one all along. Ditto the rest of the GOP. What, after all, is a pro-Putin Republican if not a traitor by another name? Calling them…
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“A Tedious Argument Of Insidious Intent”
You don’t even have to see an identifier when a conservative argues for anything conservative. You can hear their conservatism in their voice. It’s cynical notes – all off-key and menacing – assume the very worst of everyone not them. “Yeah, but…!” arguments abound that suppose all sorts of ludicrous what ifs against which we…
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Trump’s Two Supreme Court Cases Are Connected
In the next week, ex-president and lifetime criminal Donald Trump will have two huge cases before the Supreme Court. The weird thing is, they’re connected in essential ways. The even weirder thing? Our inept news media hasn’t seen or made the connections. But the two cases ARE connected – and the fact that no one’s…
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How To Kill A Trumpenstein? Mock It To Death
Stone cold fact: Donald Trump is a monster. He was a corruption monster walking in the door. Handed power, Trump became an even bigger monster and outright danger to democracy. We The People witnessed this transformation in real time! But, for all its bluster (and the very real dangers it poses), the Trumpenstein monster is…
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The GOP And The Neo-Confederacy
The American Civil War is proof. It’s no good winning a war if you’re going to lose the peace that follows. While the North got the war’s “W” in real time, the Confederacy, in the long term, got the “W” that counts. Reconstruction should have begun to undo slavery’s myriad harms – to the slaves…
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Here’s Why Democracy Is Going To Win In America
I’ll own it. I’m hopelessly optimistic; about some things; and America is one of them. Our outlook seems bleak right now. Hell, our outlook is bleak. That’s because the forces opposed to American democracy have put all their cards on the table. We are living through their Hail Mary, last ditch chuck toward the end…
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“Things Both Sides Don’t Do #245,991 – Nikki Haley Edition”
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley attended a town hall in New Hampshire. A citizen asked her a very simple question. “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” Gosh, even as the Confederate states seceded, they rattled their sabres and said “we’re going to war over slavery!” They were quite proud of…
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Is Winning An Election And CHEATING To Win Really The Same Thing?
Here in America, we’ve managed a remarkable piece of gymnastics. We’ve equated cheating to win election with not cheating to win election. Both are just “different ways to run”. In theory, democracy is a marketplace of ideas. The good ideas should, ultimately, succeed while the bad ones fail. The bad idea crowd (like the ones…