Donald Trump has spent four years promoting a “deep state” conspiracy theory with which to undermine the U.S. intelligence agencies and the state department. He has removed virtually all of the career service personnel who led those agencies, out of retaliation for their having investigated his campaign’s numerous interactions with Russian operatives in the 2016 … Read more
Andrew McCarthy at the National Review is having none of Arizona’s appointed, not elected Senator Martha McSally following the GOP’s playbook of blaming China for the Trump administration’s abject failure of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic. The Foolish GOP Proposal to Open China to American Lawsuits over COVID-19: Some terrible ideas never go away, especially ideas that … Read more
Peter Kafka in an interview with journalism critic Jay Rosen recently wrote at Vox, Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”: Americans don’t trust the government, and they don’t trust the media. That trend has been evident for years, but the Trump era has accelerated it. Now … Read more
In a scene (see below) in the 1993 Academy Award Winning Best Picture Schindler’s List, director Steven Spielberg has the Nazi Concentration Camp Commandant Amon Goth (portrayed by Ralph Fiennes) tell his SS troops that the goal of liquidating the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow was to wipe out the memory of the Jewish historical and … Read more
A group of 16 prominent conservative lawyers that includes George Conway III, the husband of the wicked witch of the White House, counselor Kellyanne Conway, issued a statement Thursday that says President Donald Trump’s “factually undisputed” requests for foreign governments to investigate his political opponents pose a threat to American democracy. George Conway, other conservative lawyers say … Read more