Authoritarianism

The GQP Has Shown Itself To Be An Increasingly Violent Anti-Democracy Insurgency Harboring Fantasies About Secession And Civil War

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Update to The GQP Has Become An Increasingly Violent Anti-Democracy Insurgency Harboring Fantasies About Secession And Civil War. Since the FBI executed a duly authorized search warrant pursuant to an Espionage Act investigation at the former guy’s home in exile in Mar-a-Lago last Monday, armed MAGA/QAnon cult members have been showing up outside of local … Read more

This Election Is A Referendum On American Democracy

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My wife received this political postcard (below} in the mail late last week, without any “paid for by” disclosure to identify the sender.  Just a short note to “Please vote all the way down the ballot,” signed by someone using only a first name. The post mark is from New York, New York. The postcard … Read more

The Republican Party Is Sick, It Is Now The Anti-Democracy Party

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Dana Milbank writes at the Washington Post, The GOP is sick. It didn’t start with Trump — and won’t end with him. This essay was adapted from “The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party” by Dana Milbank. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday. All rights reserved. It began where it ended, on the … Read more