To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Contempt For Democracy
The latest filing by Special Counsel Jack Smith makes clear that Donald Trump and his aides had nothing but contempt for democracy in his efforts in 2020 to subvert the results of a democratic election. Three days before the election, Person 1, someone who completely matches the biography of Steve Bannon, said that Trump would […]
Bottom Line On The Border: It’s Already Orderly
There were fewer arrests at the Southern border in July than in the last month of the Trump presidency. Shelters have seen a massive drop in migrants. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is having a hard time finding enough recent arrivals to fill buses headed north. The reason for this development is President Joe Biden’s […]
A Good Enough Debate
J.D. Vance is a smooth talker and a far more disciplined debater than the man he is running with. He knows how to evade answering a question, how to sound more reasonable than he really is, and how to stick to a plan and stay on-script. He made the case that Donald Trump literally forgot […]
School Lunch, Christian Nationalism And Jesus
An iconic Texas band, the Austin Lounge Lizards, has a song that nails the absurd self-righteousness of Christian supremacists: “Jesus Loves Me [But He Can’t Stand You].” I think of this refrain when I behold today’s right-wing proselytizers wailing that the blessed rich should not be taxed to assure that everyone has the most basic […]
The Fall Of Donald Trump
It’s over for you, Donald Trump. America can’t go on like this – don’t you feel it too? The breaking point came during the debate with Kamala Harris. After nine years, your dangerous duel with democracy is done. Something to do with Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs was a bridge too far […]