Parodying the title of Sinclair Lewis’s famous work It Can’t Happen Here, the Lincoln Project’s new ad “Never Happens Here” warns that the country is being divided into a pro autocratic faction and a pro-Democratic-Republic one. Saying “we’re only one Presidential election from the end of America as we’ve known it,” the narrator goes on … Read more
The Lincoln Project is continuing its assault on the Republican Party with the new ad “Democracy.” Commenting that voters in 2020 elected Joe Biden President “with the most votes ever cast for a President in U.S. History,” the narrator pointed out that “most Republican leaders (Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Kelly Loeffler, and David Perdue) are refusing … Read more
I have said for years that the The Commission On Presidential Debates and the media should stop insulting the English language and our intelligence by calling what they do a “debate.” It is in no way a debate, and never has been. What happened last night was exponentially far worse than all preceding presidential “debates” … Read more
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet” has entered the popular imagination as a powerful Abraham Lincoln saying. “Throughout his life, in both his own writings and in others’ recollections of the president, this theme of voting having more power than violence holds steady, as does his commitment to the importance of free and fair … Read more
Donald Trump brought his “covid super-spreader” carnival show to Nevada on Saturday, defying local authorities by holding a Saturday night rally in tiny Minden after his initial plan to hold one in Reno was stopped out of concern it would have violated coronavirus health guidelines. Trump pushes into Nevada, questions integrity of election: Unleashing 90-plus minutes … Read more