Tag: The Big Lie
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That “Treason Moment”
America is slowly awakening to the fact that we are awash in treason. If we go by the word’s standard definition – a traitor being someone “attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance” – then pretty much every Republican who isn’t Liz Cheney or Adam…
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The GOP Wet Dream: Turn America Into White Trash Heaven
Think about the America the Republican Party wants us to be: a racist, bigoted, misogynistic hellhole of corruption where the rich get richer and everyone else gets the shaft. It’s an America of sham elections and squalid values. It favors feelings over facts, ignorance over expertise and bullshit over truth. It’s not a coincidence that…
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Is Donald Trump A “Useful Idiot” Or A Totally Useless One?
As Trumpism has taught America, perspective can cut you like a knife. For purposes of argument, I don’t believe for two seconds that anyone actually believes The Big Lie. To believe it honestly because you really thought it happened would violate the whole point of the exercise: this is about manufactured “truth”; authoritarian truth which…
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Republicans And Rabbit Holes
As plenty of Americans learned anew during their Christmas celebrations, arguing with Republicans, conservatives, authoritarians or Trumpists is guaranteed to be one hundred percent fruitless and unsatisfying. It’s a rock solid guarantee that nothing productive will come from any such conversation. While the progressive wing of the family throws down receipt after receipt to back…
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Republicans Have Achieved “Peak Magical Thinking”
The Republican Party could run a master class on magical thinking. That’s a measure of their absolute expertise on the subject – from imagining it to propagating it to accepting it. In essence and in fact, magical thinking is a safe space for tender, snowflakey feelings. Facts are anathema. They simply don’t get along with…
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The Relentless Demand For “Bi-Partisanship” Comes From The Same Cynical Place As “Both Sides Do It”
When we get to a safe enough place in this horror story we’re living through — where we don’t have to sweat it every day whether or not American democracy itself will survive — we owe it to ourselves to take a good, long, very hard look at American journalism and the multiple ways it…