America has been in this dark place before

Our crypto-fascist racist Twitter-troll-in-chief held another Nuremberg-style campaign rally in North Carolina Wednesday night for his MAGA personality cult followers. Trump again used “the squad” of four Democratic women of color in Congress as his foil to rile up the white grievances of his mostly white nationalist base. Trump, and Republicans in general, are now … Read more

Republicans threaten the survival of the Republic

Above image: The Fall of Rome. I made the point in an earlier post that The problem is we cannot impeach the Republican Party along with their ‘Dear Leader’ (excerpt): As I have argued, “What we have right now is the entire Republican Party in lock-step with the Trump crime family. It is acting as … Read more

The problem is we cannot impeach the Republican Party along with their ‘Dear Leader’

Greg Sargent of the Washington Post recently made an astute observation about impeachment, Democratic equivocation over impeachment is a moral and political disaster: Democrats have also suggested that an impeachment inquiry should be avoided until Republicans grow convinced that removal is merited, because without that an inquiry would divide the country or isn’t worth doing … Read more