Tag: right-wing
The far right’s tipping point
Over the last decade, the world has suffered bouts of political whiplash as right-wing populists and their opponents have battled it out at the ballot box.
Progressive International unveils database exposing global right-wing network threatening democracies
This database, which results from a year of meticulous research, exposes the mechanisms through which these forces erode democratic norms and foster geopolitical instability.
Sound the alarms; someone let the crazies out and they’re now...
This is no joke, it’s not the least bit funny, it shows that this country is in deep, deep trouble.
Ultimate rightwing transgression: the mockery of politics as a preposterous joke
The Big Lie is "yoked to an older deception, without which it could not survive: the idea that American politics is a joke," attackable without consequences.
Top 8 ways to tell if you’re a white supremacist who...
So if you think there is a “white race” you might be a white supremacist.
Franklin’s ‘keep the republic’ demands Democrats must win over the majority—or...
The absence of outrage, if not indictments, to the Big Lie is as significant as the wickedness of the disgrace.
How the populist right twists leftwing ideas to appeal to voters
One of the more interesting aspects of rightwing populism, especially in the form it’s taken in the United States, is its use...
The Donald also rises?
For all practical purposes, right-wing populists will have taken over the world.
‘Conspiracism’ poisons the rightwing fringe; progressives not immune, just much smarter
What changes before 2024 if the GOP can’t exit the pandemic-decimated, insurrectionist Trump train wreck?
ReTrolligans—how the GOP risks all, miming ‘trollish’ gate-crashing, lying, bullying &...
With a daring experiment, the scheming, conspiracy-riven Republicans are testing whether morphing into a party of boorish trolls works.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.