Ed Kilgore recently explained the Five Reasons Why Republicans Won’t Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixon. Th key is his third point: 3. Trump is a lot more popular among today’s Republicans than Nixon was among yesterday’s. People remember that Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 by a huge landslide, but was forced to resign less … Read more
The carnival freak show that is otherwise known as the CPAC Convention was in Maryland this weekend, a collection of every far-right anti-government conspiracy theorist, gun rights advocate, sovereign citizen and patriot (sic) movement white nationalist, Christian nationalist and Dominionist fringe group longing for a crypto-fascist police state to “own the libs” and racial, ethnic … Read more
As was expected from the first time the idea was first floated, 16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall: A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars … Read more
If you want your news from a Republican perspective, there is Mike Allen, co-founder and executive editor of Axios and former chief political reporter for Politico. Today he has a post with Jonathan Swan who covers the Trump presidency and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill for Axios. The GOP grabs socialism as 2020 lifeline: For the … Read more
With his executive order declaring a national emergency so that he can do an end-run around the congressional power of the purse in the Constitution, Trump’s national emergency declaration once again highlights his affinity for strongmen — and authoritarianism, the authoritarian wannabe tinpot dictator Donald Trump Is Trying to Hollow Out the Constitutional System of … Read more