Tag: Donald Trump
Department of government chaos, revenge, and patronage
And MAGA, in the end, is just a load of DoGCRaP
Trump is trying to reverse the New Deal
The class politics of Trump carry forward the actions of his predecessors across the last century.
No more dog whistles
Isn’t it now time for all of us to reclaim our space—and nation—from Donald Trump?
Knowledge is not just power but what drives unrivaled US prosperity—slashed...
Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.
Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals
An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.
The Trump effect on elections globally
But with the recent election results in Canada and Australia, it’s possible to see the limits of Trump’s influence and the signs of a swing back to some semblance of normalcy.
Why the right really hates the Postal Service
It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism.
The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large
The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.
Trump’s energy secretary denies freezing federal funding, asks, ‘what does frozen...
It’s not clear whether some projects will be entirely scrapped by the new administration—and if so, what criteria the DOE plans to use as it decides which projects should survive.