“Trumpism” is the new American fascism, and no one has been a more loyal foot soldier in implementing Trump’s anti-immigrant white nationalist agenda than Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson. She has consistently and repeatedly lied to Congress under oath about the Trump administration’s child separation policy for legal asylum seekers, detaining those children in cages, and … Read more
Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory — the cult followers of the personality cult of Donald Trump — were out in force at President Donald Trump’s unhinged campaign rally in Michigan on Thursday, where the demagogue-in-chief hailed victory over a “deep state” of officials he claims is out to topple him from power. QAnon conspiracy … Read more
Update to Take Michael Cohen’s chilling warning seriously: Michael Cohen knows the darkness in the soul of Donald Trump, and in the closing statement of his testimony on Wednesday he had a chilling warning for Americans. Michael Cohen’s parting shot: I fear what happens if Trump loses in 2020: Michael Cohen closed his remarkable testimony … Read more
It’s times like these that call for the wit and wisdom of Charles Pierce at Esquire. Ilhan Omar Prompted Democrats to Pass an Anti-Semitism Resolution That Puts Republicans in a Corner: The outrage, manufactured and/or inflated, over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s remarks concerning the influence of lobbyists on behalf of Israel has been a prime performative … Read more
During the 2016 general election, Donald Trump made the central theme of his campaign the unsupported notions that there would be mass voter fraud and that the election was “rigged” against him to explain his expected impending loss. There was genuine concern that if Trump lost, some of his backers would resort to mass protests, … Read more