Getting the Government We Deserve

If you slavishly follow a blatant con artist of a leader because you enjoy watching him say and do hateful things to people you don’t like, you deserve to have him come back and burn down the tattered remnants of your life.

An All-American Hybrid: The Coming Totalitarianism

It is now becoming possible for us to glimpse the dim outlines of the totalitarian Farce/Fascist regime preparing to take power in America, starting with the anticipated sweep of this November’s elections by the MAGA-tized “Republican” Party, and culminating no later than January 20, 2025, with a new MAGA president. However, it is entirely possible

Trump Is No Stalin, But the MAGAs Are Stalinists

Trump is not merely a symptom; he is a catalyst of the Party’s transformation into a movement devoted solely to getting and keeping power by any means, including mob violence.

Death Squad Politics Comes to America

If the Republican Party was anything like it was even thirty years ago, Greene would be a major embarrassment to it, and its other Congressional members would have joined with the Democrats in kicking her off all committees and expelling her from Congress, instead of giving her a standing ovation.

Losing the Struggle for Humanity

On a recent trip to Aruba, my wife and I visited a small museum dedicated to the history of slavery in the Caribbean island, a former Dutch colony. One detail I will never forget: some of the kidnapped Africans were put to work making salt by evaporating seawater. Sounds harmless, right? Wrong: as the water

Where Did America Go Wrong? Part 4: Learning From History To Defeat MAGA

We cannot count on Trump’s departure from the scene due to his advanced age and suspected bad health to solve the problem for us.

The MAGAs and the Man

It’s the unanswerable chicken-and-egg koan of populist authoritarianism: which comes first, the Leader or the Led?

The Sack of America

The mob that sacked the U.S. Capitol tore the veil asunder, and showed Uncle Sam to be nothing but a feeble, senescent old man who refuses even to admit that his life is coming to a close.

Is Love the Answer?

A new civil war would not be a replay of our first civil war, because whatever red-and-blue tiles or mosaics you may have seen, there is no way of geographically amputating “red” America; our future would look like present-day Syria or Iraq, with armed militias on every streetcorner and itchy-trigger-finger boys manning ubiquitous checkpoints.

T Minus 48 Hours: The Forbidden City

There are millions of American fascists who are willing to openly brag about their support for an armed uprising to a stranger over the phone.