The Damage Trump’s Words Do

It’s never “just words,” and you gamble with your life if you disregard those who say they want to kill you

Into the Great Unknown

Will much of the country come to resemble Belfast in the 1970s and 80s, or the Gaza Strip in 1987? Is Sarajevo or Aleppo our fate, instead?

Maximum Trumpian Danger Is Fast Approaching

When the indictments come down and Trump’s lawyers tell him they are negotiating his surrender to federal agents, nothing will be simpler for him than to post a message like the one depicted above to his followers, over his much-mocked “Truth Social” website.

The Age of the MAGA Martyr Is Here

The entire MAGA right, including what can only be called the Republican Party establishment, has let loose a torrent of hysterical and violent rhetoric that has already led to bloodshed.

No Lives Matter

My son refused to watch Biden’s address on gun control: “It would just depress me, because I know nothing will change.”

Happy Now, Tucker Carlson?

“Replacement theory” is part of the fabric of MAGA ideology now, meaning the “race war” they are “warning” about has already been started—by them.

The Supreme Court Takes an Axe To ‘E Pluribus Unum’

Aggravating the already existing divisions on an explosive issue like abortion is the work of political arsonists, not “conservatives,” much less jurists worth the name.

You-Know-Who Is Lighting Matches

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but we have coast-to-coast kerosene fumes in the United States right now, and certain people are lighting matches. What do Trump and Sen. Rand Paul think they are doing, calling for a trucker protest blockade like the one that was just broken up in Canada to besiege Washington, D.C.

Peaceful Secession From America Is a Dangerous Fantasy

The MAGAs demand to dominate it all, including cosmopolitan New York, where they insist on the “right” to rape the Statue of Liberty, replace her crown with a MAGA cap, tear off and melt down that plaque with Emma Lazarus’s paean to immigration, and take a dump on the pedestal, too, if they feel like it.

The Republican Party Declares War on the United States

The debate over whether a second civil war might break out in America is over, because the Republican National Committee has officially declared it. Meeting in Salt Lake City Thursday, the Republican National Committee passed overwhelmingly, and without public discussion, a resolution decrying “Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” in the