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The Battle For the Republican Party: An Interview with Geoffrey Kabaservice
Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Oxford University Press, 2012). He...
View ArticleThere really is a vast right wing conspiracy.
On the yahoo.com front page there was a story with this title:“The left is abandoning consensus that immigrants are not entitled to public welfare”The phrasing immediately made my spidey sense tingle....
View ArticleI'm with Bernie Sanders, the "Lion-Hearted": Courageous, Consistent and...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Like many others on the left, I wondered what a post-heart attack, stent implanted Bernie Sanders would look like when he took the stage on October 15 for the...
View ArticleWhat Age are We In? The Age of Inequality. Thus the Tectonic Plates of...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:As is often the case with New York Times’ columns by Mr. Thomas B. Edsall, I strongly disagree with his spin, his pleading for tepid solutions — and temperaments to...
View ArticleWho Can Unite the Democrats - and stop "The Right"? And Upon Which Passionate...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Michael Tomasky, the main New York Review of Books (NYRB) political commentator, writes in “Who Can Unite the Democrats?” (December 5, 2019 print edition) that...
View ArticleThe impeachment letter Trump could have sent to Nancy Pelosi
December 22, 2019The Honorable Nancy PelosiSpeaker of the House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515Dear Madam Speaker:I wrote you this past Tuesday to protest in the strongest possible terms the...
View Article2020 is not 1972
2020 is not 1972Recently, I’ve seen several comments on Daily Kos in which people expressed the fear that if Bernie Sanders were to become the 2020 Democratic nominee for president, the results of the...
View ArticleBarry Goldwater vs Today's GOP
Multiple requests to post a comment I made in yesterday's piece by voidstuff on Steve Schmidt into a freestanding diary have prompted me to go ahead. (Over the past 24 hours my anger about my phone...
View ArticleMaryanne Trump Barry - Will there ever be a straw.....?
I’ve voted in every election since Jimmy Carter was elected, and the only candidate who has come remotely close to the maniac in the oval office is Barry Goldwater — at least he was smart and sane. At...
View ArticleBooker, Trumpism, and neo-Confederate Rand Paul
This article originally appeared in Forward KentuckyBy BERRY CRAIGThe Civil War's outcome was still in doubt in July, 1864. But President Abraham Lincoln got some welcome news from the battlefield.Gen....
View ArticleRepublicans' Texas move on abortion, like all their rotten agenda, was 40...
Thirty-seven years ago, I wrote this editorial for Front Range Press (RIP) where I was editor/publisher at the time. The boldfacing did not appear in the original:Twenty years ago, after Barry...
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Countering the "Make America Great" Slogan and Others
The Republicans always use classless slogans. Trump’s “Make America Great” slogan relates to an abstract nationalist concept. I say abstract because a nation is many different people from different...
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David Corn: It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP...
Many people would like to believe if Donald Trump could magically be made irrelevant, the Republican Party would become…. ‘normal’ again, and not the party of American-style fascism it is today.David...
View ArticleThe Trumpist claim that we're 'a republic, not a democracy' is even more...
Trumpist Republicans are lately in the habit of repeating this doozy of a notion that the United States of America is “a republic, not a democracy” (RNAD). Often, this comes as a response to statements...
View ArticleWhy Graham falls flat.
With regards to Senator Lindsay Graham and his recent submission of a bill to criminalize abortion nationwide, much ink has already been spilled. Indeed, I come not to get into the nitty-gritty of his...
View Article"Republicans follow the Hitler line..." JFK Motivational quotes for the next...
When I awakened today, I needed motivation to do everything I can in the next few days...leading up to the midterms. I had been thinking that our current crop of Republicans are the very worst I’ve...
View ArticleWORTH REPEATING
Dear Kossacks:The recent comment by our fellow Kossack new10 (in quotes and augmented by my own comments in parentheses) is worth repeating:"Why/how the GOP has come to this (the precipice of the...
View ArticleHOW HISTORIC LIBERALISM BECAME TODAY’S RADICAL CONSERVATISM
What today’s free-market radicals and anti-others social reactionaries have in common is their willingness to impose their values on unwilling others – and a resulting rejection of both democracy and...
View ArticlePatriotic Republicans helped save the country 49 years ago. Will any step up...
On Aug. 7, 1974—49 years ago this week—three powerful Republican lawmakers met with then-President Richard Nixon and told him he wasn’t going to find a reprieve through them: He was going to be...
View ArticleExtremism is no defense, moderation, no vice. The GOP is whistling past its...
...a choice not an echo...This week's headlines bring into sharp focus the incessant strain of extremism in our lives. Extremists live among us like viruses that appear at random to create their havoc....
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