It seems like some of the election fraud and insurrection talk has died down a bit. Trump’s evangelicals are starting to settle-in to the reality that Joe Biden is president. This means that they are returning to more traditional talking...
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The coming war in the Democratic Party
We all saw this coming. It’s the centrists versus the progressives. Conor Lamb versus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Get ready for the war. Here is a taste of John F. Harris piece at Politico titled “What Planet is AOC On?“ It is...
Night two (Tuesday) at the DNC convention
Here are some of my tweets from last night with additional context. My twitter followers seemed to be split 50-50 on this take: Obama could not get away w/his 2004 national unity speech today. After night 1 of #DNC2020, it...
What the real socialists are saying about Sanders, AOC, and Black Lives Matter
I want to highlight again something I mentioned briefly in this post. What do real socialists say about Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and others on the left-wing of the Democratic Party who are frightening America conservatives and white evangelicals...
Here’s One for the Trump Presidential Library:
From Whitehouse.Gov:...
Eugene Debs, Bernie Sanders, and Anticapitalism
Jamelle Bouie’s recent piece at The New York Times is worth your time. It is important to remember that many socialists in United States history, including Debs and Sanders, believed they were defending American ideals. Here is a taste of “The Enduring...
White People Have Denied That They Are Racist For a Long Time
After Donald Trump told U.S Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar to “go back” to their own countries, I heard and read a lot of conservatives say something similar to Fox News commentator Brit Hume: Trump’s “go back” comments were...
Trump is Manufacturing Racial Fears
Peter Beinart, writing at The Atlantic, is on to something when he writes, “In the past, the president riled up his base by exploiting violent incidents in the news. Now he just manufactures his own controversies.” Here is a taste of...
Trump Has Found His Ticket(s) to Relection
Trump has been waiting for a moment like this. After watching some of his rally last night in Greenville, North Carolina, it is clear that the president thinks he has found his path to re-election in 2020. Trump hopes to...
Does Donald Trump Want Frederick Douglass to Go Back to Where He Came From?
Some of you may remember that Donald Trump thinks Frederick Douglass, ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, is still alive. Douglass is not only alive, but he is doing “an amazing job.” (I am not sure if any corrected him on this. For the record,...
759,935 American Voters Pulled a Lever for Members of “The Squad” in 2018
In 2018: 110,318 voters in New York’s 14th Congressional District voted for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This district is 18.41% white. 267,703 voters in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District voted for Ilhan Omar. The district is 67.39% white. 165,355 voters in Michigan’s 13th...
Trump is Ramping-Up for the 2020 Election and Its Getting Very Racist
You can definitely expect a lot of this kind of “presidential” rhetoric over the course of the next fifteen months as Donald Trump ramps up his re-election campaign. He won on white nationalism in 2016 and he will try to...
Obama Sends a Warning to American Progressives
In a speech in Germany, Barack Obama warned progressives in the Democratic Party to avoid becoming a “circular firing squad.” Here is a taste of Martin Pengelly’s article at The Guardian: Barack Obama warned on Saturday that US progressives risk creating a...
FDR’s New Deal Was Also Green
Over at JSTOR Daily, Livia Gershon draws on scholarship by Neil Maher to remind us that the first New Deal was concerned with the environment. Here is a taste of her piece: The Green New Deal concept championed by Democratic...
The Faith of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off a major upset in yesterday’s Democratic primary race in New York’s 14th District. She defeated Joe Crowley, the 10-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives who many believed would be the heir-apparent to Nancy Pelosi...