The Washington Post reports, For Republicans, fealty to Trump’s election falsehood becomes defining loyalty test. The Big Lie is now the central organizing principle of the GQP. The MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump has checked out from reality, and is living in an alternate reality “bubble” that the right-wing propaganda media has created for … Read more
Peter Wehner writes at The Atlantic, The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy: The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up … Read more
You can’t make this stuff up. The bizarro world reality we are forced to live in here in Arizona because of the MAGA/QAnon conspiracy cult that controls our state legislature is stranger than fiction. The Arizona Mirror reports, Senate won’t say who is funding the election audit or allow media access: A heated press conference … Read more
Rachel Maddow reports on the insane conspiracy theories that underpin the effort by Arizona Republicans to conduct (another) taxpayer funded recount of only the presidential election ballots from last November from Maricopa County in the belief that they’ll discover that Donald Trump “secretly won.” Include this clip as an exhibit in the lawsuit because it … Read more
The U.S. had a recession in 1990-91 during George H.W. Bush’s one term as president. Although the recession was relatively mild and short-lived, it was characterized by a jobless recovery. Unemployment continued to rise in 1992, an election year, and was a contributing factor to Governor Bill Clinton defeating George H.W. Bush that year for … Read more