I remember having dinner with my wife and her brother and sisters at Applebees after Donald Trump won the Electoral College in 2016. I remember commenting that watch out, we’ll wind up missing George W. Bush after four years of Donald Trump. I remember my brother-in-law and younger sister-in-law laughing thinking I was joking. Unfortunately, … Read more
There is NO doubt that Donald Trump and his cultist followers in the Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disinfowar Alternative Fact Universe encouraged a fringe mob of gullible and violent domestic terrorists to storm the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Need a reminder. Some Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin I want to be Speaker but … Read more
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
Russian Bolshevism under Lenin was not a majority movement in 1917 and 1918. Italian Fascism headed by Mussolini was not a majority movement from 1919 to 1922. German Nazism personified by Hitler was not a majority movement from 1919 to 1933. Richard Nixon’s 1968 election was not the will of the majority. The same with … Read more
Earlier today (December 2, 2019) Montana Governor Steve Bullock suspended his campaign for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. He is the third of four current or former Democratic Governors (John Hickenlooper and Jay Inslee were the others) who tried to garner support for their presidential candidacies this 2020 election cycle. The fourth, former Massachusetts Governor and … Read more