The United States loves to export its political ideals and practices to the rest of the world. The latest export seems to be antidemocratic insurrections. Here is a taste of Anne Applebaum’s Atlantic piece: “What the Rioters in Brazil Learned...
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Should we start preparing for a Ukrainian victory?
While we were all watching coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, the Ukrainian army was taking back towns occupied by Russian troops. Here is a taste of Anne Applebaum’s recent piece at The Atlantic: But even though the fighting may...
Mike Lindell is “affable, devout, philanthropic–and a clear threat to the nation”
Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell loves to talk to journalists. He seems to enjoy the attention. This is why I am not surprised that he agreed to meet with Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic. They met at Steve Bannon’s townhouse and...
Do Marxists, critical race theorists, and Tucker Carlson have anything in common?
Anne Applebaum is going to catch hell for this column, but she is right. The subtitle of her Atlantic piece reads: “Marxist literary scholars and popularizers of critical race theory have one thing in common with certain GOP commentators: a...
Early Trump supporters in their own words
Over at The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf shares the thoughts of some of Trump’s earliest supporters. Here is a taste: …the fourth correspondent claimed in 2015 that “Trump is refreshingly blunt, honest, and pro-American.” Today? “Trump will go down as the...
The right-wing media smears don’t make sense. That’s OK, you’re not supposed to understand them.
Anne Applebaum nails it at The Atlantic. Here is a taste: Those who live outside the Fox News bubble and intend to remain there do not, of course, need to learn any of this stuff. Judging by what has been […]
The Complicit Court Evangelicals
I just finished “Collaborators,” Anne Applebaum‘s brilliant essay in the July/August 2020 issue of The Atlantic. It is subtitled: “What causes people to abandon their principles in support of a corrupt regime? And how do they find their way back?” Applebaum...