Establishment Democrats would rather lose to the right, even to a proto-fascistic white-nationalist and eco-exterminist right, than lose to the left, even to a mildly progressive social democratic and environmentalist left within their own party
Paul Street
Fascism won’t come to America. It will emerge out of American history
Is there no limit to the lethal and authoritarian absurdity of America, land of mass gun massacres like Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, and now El Paso and Dayton among other pockmarked sites?
Mass Media, Inauthentic Opposition, and Eco-Existential Reality in a Pre-Fascist Age of Appeasement
As any sentient progressive should know, NBC and MSNBC (hereafter “MSDNC”) are media assets owned by and subservient to the United States capitalist and imperialist ruling class
Coughing is a Sign of Weakness The television footage of White House acting Chief-of-Staff Mick Mulvaney being kicked out of the Oval…
None of the various corporate Democratic candidates (including the hopelessly right-wing and inane gaffe-machine Joe Biden) is more likely to prevail over Trump than Sanders
The Trump administration has been all too quietly speeding up the end of history with a broad sweep of horrific ecological policies and practices
I am as horrified as Paul Krugman at the authoritarian threat posed by Donald Trump and his supporters, but in different ways, with a different understanding
Moore’s mission on the Fed board – the reason that Trump has nominated him – would be to advance Trump’s political re-election agenda by pushing the president’s absurd claim that the Fed is pursuing a “tight money” (high interest rate) policy