In A Rapidly Changing America, Republicans Have Embraced Anti-Democratic ‘Minority Authoritarianism’

The New York Times reports, If Tennessee’s Legislature Looks Broken, It’s Not Alone (excerpt): There are 99 legislators in the Tennessee House of Representatives, the body that voted on Thursday to expel two of its Democratic members for leading an anti-gun protest in the chamber. Sixty of them had no opponent in last November’s election. … Read more

Privileged White Boy Blake Masters Sneers ‘We Are Done With This Affirmative Action Regime’

The former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana, David Duke, traded in his Klan robes for a suit and tie to make his way into mainstream U.S. politics. Making the Klan respectable and mainstream in the Republican Party. In an article tracing how the political worldview of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke … Read more

House GQP White Snowflakes Approve Ballot Measure To Forbid Teaching America’s Actual History In The Arizona Constitution

Last week, the radical Republican white snowflakes in the Arizona legislature waging a culture war against “Critical Race Theory” – something which is only taught in law schools and graduate level college courses – voted to send to the ballot a measure for Republican white snowflake voters to forbid teaching America’s actual history in the Arizona … Read more

The Radical Republicans On SCOTUS Signal That Racial Gerrymandering To Disenfranchise Black Voters Is OK By Them

In Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have no jurisdiction to review partisan gerrymandering cases, greenlighting the extreme gerrymandering that we have seen since the 2020 Census. But the court noted that federal courts do have jurisdiction to review racial gerrymamdering cases. Supreme … Read more