Tiffany Cross was sitting in as host of The ReidOut on MSNBC on Wednesday evening, and it is a shame that the video clip of her opening segment appears to be not available (or at least I cannot find it). This was the best analysis of election results on Tuesday, far more accurate than the … Read more
A number of years ago, I used to present a one hour seminar on “Things they didn’t teach you in your high school history class” – the unsanitized version of our history that is not included in the hagiographic myth making in virtually every high school text book. The white nationalist MAGA/QAnon cult freakout over … Read more
Jane Mayer at the New Yorker reports that the unpublished memoire of Republican strategist Harvey LeRoy “Lee” Atwater – an adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and a chairman of the Republican National Committee – who took Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy national, i.e., increasing political support among white voters by appealing to … Read more
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
Samuel Perry noted about the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, The Capitol siege recalls past acts of Christian nationalist violence (excerpt): [The] blending of Christian imagery with Trump flags put Christian nationalism, the often militarized fusing of Christianity and American white identity, on display during one of America’s darkest days. As someone … Read more