“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” – 1984, by George Orwell I was struck by something the Washington … Read more
Never before in American history has one of the two major political parties in the United States been a personality cult built around a demagogic figure it reveres as a demigod and “Dear Leader,” similar to Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Donald Trump is now just like his love letters pal from North Korea. Republicans … Read more
Back in June, Donald Trump and his henchman at the “Injustice” Department, William “Coverup” Barr, asserted that the hundreds of thousands of Americans in the streets of America protesting the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers were “antifa” provocateurs. Just to be clear, “antifa” is short for anti-fascist. Do you know who is … Read more
Donald Trump is a textbook example for psychological projection, i.e., unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits he doesn’t like about himself and attributing them to someone else. Although in Trump’s case, I am not so sure that it is unconscious. Trump has never developed past the childhood schoolyard taunt of “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever … Read more
Arizona was a test case for Donald Trump’s campaign strategy in 2020: use the slow counting of mail-in ballots to undermine and to contest the legitimacy of the election. In 2018, 80% of Arizona voters received their ballots in the mail and voted early by mail. On election night, the first numbers you see reported … Read more