Oh, So They Want To ‘Investigate’ Dr. Fauci, Do They?

The whole world will be reminded yet again that it was the old original Trumpenführer who told people to swallow horse pills and bleach, such that many of gullible idiot MAGA followers actually did.

Violence and the MAGA/Trump Movement: A Reassessment

The MAGA-inspired violence of the whole period since Trump set foot on that gilded escalator to the paid cheers of hired actors in 2015 has so far been scattered and ineffectual, but that can change at any moment.

The Rapidly Mutating Fascist Threat

Many political provocateurs are already hard at work trying to meet the demand for racist grievance-mongering, misogyny, rage against religious and sexual minorities, and general hatefulness that Trump illuminated with his “Dumpster fire.”

It’s the Stupidity, Stupid: MAGA and American Anti-Intellectualism

Hofstadter wouldn’t be surprised at all by the persistence of anti-intellectualism in our own time. After all, these hostilities have been a force in American life for centuries.

They Won’t Have Nancy Pelosi To Kick Around Anymore

Sadly for the Party of Trump, vicious anti-Catholic bigotry is as extinct in America as the woolly mammoth; were it not, they would gladly seize on it to try to destroy the country’s second Catholic president.

Booby-Trapped House

McCarthy’s hangers on are supposedly confident he will still win their party’s nod for the speakership, which will quickly make him the unhappiest man alive.

Madame Speaker Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Whom the gods would destroy, they first elevate to Congressional Republican leadership.

No Power on Earth Can Save Democracy If the People Don’t Care

It’s not the Democratic Party that’s responsible for the yawning indifference of the American people to what we all saw unfold on January 6, 2021.

The Lowest Pit of MAGA Hell

These Ivy League-educated men, the lawless products of elite law schools, have adopted the demagogic habit, not just of railing at “elites,” but of cultivating virulent hatred for history, science, literature, or any other branch of knowledge or independence of mind that does not further their power grubbing.

You May Not Be Interested in Politics, But Politics Is Interested in You

When they cannot avert democracy entirely, these elites will always seek to corrupt it, and unfortunately in America they have the powerful weapon of “White” racism to help them.