Christopher Browning, an historian of Nazi Germany, has heretofore resisted calling Donald Trump a fascist because he felt it was an imprecise use of the term. However, he is worried about the future. I still deny that Trump’s presidency was fascist; but I’m concerned that if he wins another trip to the White House, he could … Read more
Right-wing Republicans, at the behest of their meme masters at FauxNews, are loudly fighting a war against “wokeism.” As usual, they do not bother to define the term. They simply use the terms “woke” and “wokeism” as weaponized catchall terms to represent the fictional nefarious program of the imaginary “evil libs” that they fear. The … Read more
Our institutions of democracy and law have been under vicious attack for years now – that is from within, not from without the United States. And these vicious attacks are unsustainable and unendurable. They’ve already taken their toll on American democracy and American law in their impact, and the consequence of their impact, on the … Read more
People do not usually grow more open and flexible as they age. We tend to become settled in our habits of behavior and in our opinions. We cluster comfortably into groups of like-minded folks and shake our heads at those who live, think, and behave differently than we do. Because we find safety in the … Read more
If Republican voters would pay attention to what their party really does when they have power, they would never vote the way they do. The Republican Legislative agenda has actively worked against the interests of American working families since the 1930s. The modern American right was born to defend the anti-majoritarian preferences of reactionary business … Read more
On Monday, December 19, 2022 the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol referred former president Donald J. Trump to the Justice Department for potential prosecution on four Federal crimes. These crimes are: 1. Obstruction of an official proceeding, 2. Conspiracy to defraud the United States, 3. Conspiracy … Read more
It appears that democracy in the United States may have survived the 2022 election. Perhaps even more important than the Democrats keeping control of the Senate is the fact that all 13 election-denying Republican candidates, in 6 battleground states, for governor, secretaries of state, and attorneys general, lost their races. (The Arizona Attorney General race, … Read more
Before your LDS family and friends in Utah, Idaho, and Arizona blindly vote straight “Republican” once again, I strongly encourage you to call them and point out that the Republican Party they think they are supporting no longer exists. Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, recently published a piece in which she documented the removal … Read more