Reopening too soon is eating the South and West alive at this very moment. If schools open next month under the current circumstances, I fear we may start painting corner after corner of the entire country “infected” red.
I am forced to wonder, however, what the real intent is behind this sudden solidarity after three long years of near-silence from the deeply compromised “Never Trump” crew
Donald Trump would step on the dead faces of his own supporters in the street if he believed doing so would carry him closer to victory in November
It is abundantly clear that, for this president, the health and survival of the people also come a distant second to his electioneering
I’m wondering today how comfortable most elected Republicans are with their fateful decision to hitch their wagons to Trump’s dimming star
Source: Truthout Trump and Bolton Photo by Gints Ivuskans/Shutterstock.com I thought it was over in September 2019, when Donald Trump and his…
These people did not spring up from the ground like mushrooms. They are products of a long-standing cultivation project undertaken by the Republican Party and its media allies to agitate and radicalize its political base
An F-5 tornado has roared through Trumpland, the rural/exurban village where Trump’s base resides with Fox News playing on one channel and OANN on the other
Trump can still see the people as they march in unity, but only if he peers through the bars of the cage he has constructed for himself.
The only remedy in the face of such terrifying power abuse is to confront it with a greater power, the power of the people. Those who are bravely protesting, taking on the forces of racism and fascism, are that greater power.
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