Dear Attorney General Merrick Garland: What more does your Department of Justice need to send some FBI agents to arrest the “Orange Julius” Caesar in exile in Mar-a-Lago for seditious conspiracy and incitement of violent insurrection? What are you wiaitng for? Over the weekend Donald Trump admitted to his coup plot in writing, promised that … Read more
The far right has for decades engaged in civil war cosplay with Neo-Confederate “lost cause” and white supremacist organizations, and so-called “patriot” private militias and “sagebrush rebellions.” They call themselves patriots while fantasizing about waging a civil war against the U.S. government. The far right right crossed over from cosplay to actually acting on their … Read more
Today, the U.S. observes the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR address to Congress: “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” The U.S. thus entered a … Read more
Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles recently did a post he titled “It’s Back to The Future with Trump’s 2020 campaign.” Actually, I think the more accurate movie analogy for Trump and his MAGA supporters is the political allegory Pleasantville (1998). As Roger Ebert described it: The movie opens in today’s America, which we have been taught … Read more
Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory — the cult followers of the personality cult of Donald Trump — were out in force at President Donald Trump’s unhinged campaign rally in Michigan on Thursday, where the demagogue-in-chief hailed victory over a “deep state” of officials he claims is out to topple him from power. QAnon conspiracy … Read more