Following the events of January 6th, Republicans signaled a willingness to understand how the insurrection happened. Terrified of Trump, though, most of them have changed their minds on that matter. Mitch McConnell understands that a commission will be very bad politically for Republicans. So he is urging them to vote against the bill. And that…
The hosts of Fox News have very specific talking points to hit each day. And it normally has nothing to do with whatever current events are happening. No, instead Fox feeds it’s viewers a heavy dose of cancel culture. They also spend a lot of time demonizing immigrants. And the network’s personalities work hard on…
Rage has, no doubt, been a powerful political force in U.S. history. Dr. Carolyn Anderson demonstrates this fact most fully and compellingly in her book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, in which she analytically chronicles how white racist rage has implicitly informed social policy throughout U.S. history to disable African Americans,…
Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear” has become Trump and the Republican Party’s worst nightmare by selling faster than any book since Harper Lee’s sequel to “To Kill A Mockingbird.” CNN reported: “Fear” came out on Tuesday. And it is already one of the top selling books of the year — not just on the politics…
The Trump campaign’s scapegoating of Syrian refugees is an attempt to stir up fear – and votes.
In the midst of our tributes to the first responders of then and now, in our gratefulness for those who serve in our nation’s military and for those who have given their lives in this service, and in our hope for tomorrow, can we also make room again to ponder the call to welcome the world’s exhausted, suffering, homeless ones for whom this nation’s welcome light shines?
The evidence is all around us, that change is real, that it is part of life, and that it yields good things. Conservatives the world over, not just our own, are still suffering whiplash. The best they can do is use fear to put the breaks on.
