The Washington Post recently reported on the Sedition Caucus of the Republican Party that regularly uses violent eliminationist rhetoric towards their political opponents and openly advocates for civil war. House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans: The defiant far-right [fascist] acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican … Read more
Perry Bacon, Jr. in an op-ed addresses “performance politics,” specifically “performance centrism,” something which our two prima donna Democratic divas excel at to our great peril. The problem with performative centrism: In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism … Read more
Today, the U.S. observes the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR address to Congress: “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” The U.S. thus entered a … Read more
Above Image: h/t the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in a different context. Axios reports, “Midnight is approaching” to pass voting rights protections: “Defenders of democracy in America still have a slim window of opportunity to act. But time is ticking away, and midnight is approaching,” according to more than 150 top scholars of U.S. democracy in … Read more
Just like Hitler Youth back in the day. Update to The MAGA/QAnon Cult Turns to Book Banning – Can Book Burning Be Far Behind? Asked and answered. The Washington Post reports, ‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) attacked Terry McAuliffe … Read more