Saturday, May 24, 2025

It’s the smashed GOP, stupid! Can’t win with Trump, can’t win without him

Are addled Republicans more at war with America, laws, elections and the Constitution—or with each other?

Sniping at his own party ‘losers,’ Trump should jump the shark and embrace Democrats

Will Trump realize Democrats’ ‘better deal’ could deliver better PR?

Is There Even an Iota of Courage in the GOP Hierarchy?

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity. And, boy, America's Republican leadership is conforming like a pack of lemmings.

We were all outsiders in Trump’s America once — even Trump

Trump’s brand of bigotry goes back a long way in this country.

Why Trump won’t bring jobs

Every signal suggests that Trump will pursue the same plutocratic approach favored by all presidents of his party.

The people’s Memorial Day

On this Memorial Day let us contemplate the moral injury we do to our nation every day in the never ending wars of the 21st Century.

Confirmed: Trump’s Distrusted, Infantile Cartoon Show Vs. Clinton’s Distrusted, Rational Adult Show

The GOP Convention slugfest already confirms this election comes down to our child energy vs. our adult tenure — politically, between the gullible open to a con artist’s reality-denying, grammar-school reductionism vs. more circumspect voters who embrace a distrusted, hawkish but manifestly rational adult.

The president is fooling himself. Is he fooling us, too?

If the occasional appearance of sanity is all we ask of Trump, then his reign of insanity will be our fault.

3 Reasons a New President Won’t Help America

We need a guaranteed income. It's the one way we could immediately instill a degree of equality in America, while restoring some of the missing trust in each other.

How magical is Donald Trump?

Progressives not only need to resist the plutocratic agenda, but also to put forth our true people's agenda and start rallying voters around it.