In these days of pandemic, American democracy lies sick, burning not with fever but with fire. Every illness must come to one end or the other. Will she die, or will she get better? The[…]
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Category: Trump
Trump vs Obama: America’s A/B Experiment
There’s only one lens through which the Trump presidency makes actual sense: As a self-organizing A/B experiment in sociology, carried out on the grandest of scales. The A part of the experiment was a man[…]
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Dear Dems, Impeach Trump Today (and again tomorrow if necessary)
It’s no accident that the rhetoric around Trump has shifted from “he’ll be impeached the moment the Democrats take the House” to “oh, it would be a mistake to impeach him, we don’t have the[…]
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District 12 Votes This Week
AUGUST 7th 2018 By this time next week, the last special election for US Congress before Election Day will be all over… except the tears. But who will be crying is yet to be written. […]
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2018 US Midterm Elections
First, a couple of disclaimers. There are many issues I’m conservative on, and some I’m increasingly conservative on. I’ve voted for Republicans in the past, and I’m have a wealth of complaints about the Democratic[…]
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His Chief Strategist calls it “treasonous,” why won’t his party?
It isn’t often that I agree with former White House Chief Strategist (and white power sympathist) Stephen K. Bannon (although we are both fans of the visionary Strauss & Howe book, The Fourth Turning), but[…]
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R.I.P. G.O.P.
I’m progressive, even radical on many topics, but I also hold some conservative views; and like most people, I’ve grown more conservative as I’ve grown older. I’m not a fan of the Democrats, and I’ve[…]
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Impeachment Time: Why We Can’t Wait
Whether or not it was illegal, Donald Trump’s volunteering of top secret intelligence to the spymaster of a hostile government was a clear violation of his oath of office. For a top government official to[…]
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Saving America’s Democracy
“If deliberate, it would be treason.” – Elliot Cohen Update: As of 5/15/17, multiple credible sources are reporting that Trump volunteered top secret information to a Russian spymaster, endangering a critical American source of classified[…]
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The End of Racism and Sexism
Retrieved from Googlepedia May 5th, 2042 When Donald J. Trump was elected, 26 years ago, even his most ardent supporters didn’t anticipate the dawn of a new, post-racist, post-sexist society. After all, in electing him,[…]
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