Peter Lake: On restoring the soul of the nation
The normal to which we are supposed to want to return is what gave us Donald Trump in the first place, and the forces that produced that outcome have not gotten weaker in the interim
Paul Christensen: Election Terrors
No one seems to know what to think or how to feel right now. The stress is building and the threats to this election are so poisonous, it makes you quiver with fear.
Video: Do Politics Make Us Irrational?
Can someone’s political identity actually affect their ability to process information?
Mark Gruenberg: Trump’s message to white supremacists — It’s OK to gun down protesters
The danger that more armed right-wing thugs will take to the streets and shoot people is now a very real threat all across the country.
Charles Davidson: Hitler’s Visage in Trump’s Shadow
Trump is the sociopathic bully who having been bullied in childhood by a sociopathic father now bullies his way across America, taking his cues from “strongmen” like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Hitler who bullied his way across the Rhineland and Europe.
C.J. Atkins: Trump turns to neo-Nazi symbols to attract racist votes
This pairing of a white supremacist mobilization with a robust voter suppression effort targeting people of color means Trump’s desperate bid to hold on to power is escalating dangerously.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Republican lawmakers’ familiar blame game hangs COVID’s spread on young people
Damn Kids!
Steven Rosenfeld: GOP Resists Voting By Mail In Red States
Many conservative politicians are resisting best-practice reforms intended to protect voters from the Covid virus.
Peter Lake: Failing the State
Rickety, broken even, as American government and society in many ways are, they have not, until of late, been simply failed. Rather they have been, and are being, failed by the Trump administration and the Republican Party
Peter Lake: How to Get Reelected Republican Style
Trump is not an aberration but the natural consequence of central strands in Republican party politics and political maneuver over the last thirty years.
John Edward Simms: The Last White RINO
A conservative Republican comes to terms with what his party has become.
Karl Evers-Hillstrom: Senators overseeing impeachment trial got campaign cash from Trump legal team members
Former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray, who investigated then-President Bill Clinton around the time of his impeachment, each made large campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last year before joining Trump’s legal team.
Thom Hartman: How America Broke Up With The Democratic Party
Many grassroots Democrats separated from their party in the 1990s, and the 2020 election may be the last chance to save the marriage.
Rebecca Gordon: What’s Wrong With the Republicans?
The roots of much of the turmoil in the current Republican Party are centuries old. They go back, in fact, to the twin crimes that have helped shape this country from its very beginning: slavery and imperial expansion.
