Is President Donald Trump racist? Lawrence O’Donnell suggested that when President Trump supports Nazis and the KKK, he’s simply pandering to his base. “If you voted for him, you can do no wrong,” Lawrence said. According to O’Donnell, this is our bald ape’s justification for talking about how both sides are equally culpable, and how the riots weren’t actually caused by white nationalists. Naa. Not...
Reading the FiveThirtyEight site, I see that recent polls have Trump’s popularity growing after he endorsed the KKK and Nazi riots in Charlottesville. Not falling. Growing stronger. Trump thinks ‘both sides’ are equally culpable. Both sides are have bad people. There were good people — not racists — in the white supremacists. Trump blames the ‘Alt-Left’ for violence. Apparently, that made Trump’s ‘base’ happier than...
I swear, I’m trying to find the humor in every day’s new craziness. There’s a lot of insanity and silly illogic to draw from. Tons of material to use. But tonight, I’m listening to someone who’s openly evil. I just can’t find the funny parts in Charlottesville. (And what happened to the state police during those riots?) Trump isn’t just an inept and incompetent weakling. ...
At least we don’t have to pretend Trump’s being ambiguous. His vocal support for white supremacists in general everywhere, and in Charlottesville in particular, clarifies things horrifically. Democrats have been condemning him for a while, just as they always do. I expect their vocal — and toothless — condemnations to continue. Cough up some real alternatives before I’ll take you more seriously. Republicans are offering...
Bear with me. I saw an article that I almost skipped, but it ended up being better than I’d thought, and I wanted to pass it on. I know that we’re all tired of reading breathless articles about Trump being a — gasp! — racist. That’s what I felt when I saw the Sunday’s New York Times article: “The Policies of White Resentment,” by Carol...
Being president doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are. — Michele Obama, 2012 I read opinion pieces that lament how Trump can change direction several times in an afternoon. They talk about, say, his support for the LGBTQ, or trade, or taxes, or health care, and how his actions don’t follow logic or his prior statements. They wonder why he changes his...
Watching the violence in Charlottesville, I was struck: where were the police? The rally was expected to draw violence. The police had allowed both sides to have weapons, chemical sprays, helmets, body armor, and more. The police boxed the white supremacists and violent anti-fascists into a space, then withdrew. Withdrew from groups expected to react violently? What on earth was their justification? Did the police...
Republicans are always talking about ditching this or that federal safety-net program in favor of ‘block grants’: fixed piles of cash each year. Block grants are a perennial Republican solution to entitlements. Their argument is that if you hand state-level politicians a big pile of free cash, they’ll spend it more sensibly than the federal government. Uhhh… right. Because that makes a ton of sense....
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