For four long, embarrassing, tortured years, Donald Trump has gotten away with being a virulent racist. He's gotten away with it mainly because the party he purports to represent has consistently ignored, laughed off, refused to comment on, or...
This should be interesting. One of the kind of neat ancillary benefits of the way that the DNC chose to populate the stages for the early debates is that it's a new show every week. In choosing the rosters...
The meek shall inherit the earth. But only after everybody else is dead.  Anonymous
Break out the band! Raise the flag! Send in the clowns! Gimme a beer! Our national sanity break is here. As of this moment, we're on...
Charlie Pierce introduced this topic better than I can:
There is simply no way to argue that the 2016 presidential election was a legitimate exercise in democratic self-government. There are too many bread crumbs leading in the same direction, somewhere...
For nigh on a year and a half now I have been saying that Donald Trump is literally killing the Republicans as a viable national party going forward. As a result, I have taken my fair share of incoming...
If this kind of news cycle keeps up, soon you can start looking forward to the newest Netflix piece of shit series, Wednesday is the new Friday. This upcoming Wednesday is Robert Mueller's long awaited, potentially make-or-break-impeachment in front of two...
Donald Trump believes, in the words of journalist Andrew Sullivan, that, "indecency can win in America. His election strategy is built on the notions that cruelty can be popular and liberal democratic norms are dead." That's quite a statement. I...
To begin with, do yourself a favor. Lower your blood pressure, ease the pains from your ulcers, and quit waiting for it, cuz it ain't happening. And when I say it, I am of course referring to the eventual Republican...
Forget about Republicans disavowing Trump or racism -- oh, no, quite the reverse. Racism is the train that they taking on the road to 2020, full speed ahead. The Republican National Committee just released an attack ad on the...
Former Republican congressman from Illinois, Joe Walsh, says that Donald Trump was elected by angry people, and this is why he gets away with what he does. Wednesday night's rally in North Carolina should have been the tipping point,...
