Peter Wehner writes at The Atlantic, The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy: The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up … Read more
The media villagers gave us endless reporting on what motivated Trump voters in 2016. It was “economic anxiety” they insisted about being left out of the Obama economic recovery. These media villagers glossed over the fact that this anxiety was “white grievance” about being “replaced” by minorities in the new economy. Losing their “white privilege” … Read more
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Will Bunch writes Georgia governor signed a voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation: Sometimes America’s legacy of white supremacy is hiding in plain sight, literally. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hastily passed voter … Read more
Authoritarian wannabe tinpot dictator, Donald Trump, said the quiet part out loud last year: “They had things [in the bill], levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends [of Fascism]. After losing the election … Read more
The racist and xenophobic white nationalist Republican Sedition Party is a post-truth, post-policy disinformation and propaganda machine that engages in performative politics to provide content to the conservative media entertainment complex. They’ve got nothing but race-baiting and fear mongering over immigrants coming to America in the “browning” of America. White grievances over the loss of … Read more