Americans are exhausted. It’s our nation’s birthday, and we’re in no mood to celebrate. Polling shows a nation divided. We have conflicting views of “freedom”…
Posts tagged as “Republicans”
Our legal system should work without prejudice or favor, and yesterday demonstrated that sometimes that ideal is achieved. In the early evening of May 30, 2024,…
Donald Trump dominated the January 15, 2024, Iowa caucuses, winning 98 of 99 counties in the state. More telling, he won 51 percent of the…
Former President Donald J. Trump is a cancer, a potentially lethal threat to our democratic republic. Unfortunately, this “Summer of Indictments” and civil lawsuits won’t…
Debt ceiling votes in the United States Congress are an absurd ritual that should be relegated to the trash heap of history. If you charge…
Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming unwaveringly sides with traditionally “conservative” (small c) values when voting on legislation and resolutions in the House of Representatives. Her…
As of June 2022, Democratic political action committees (PACs) have spent at least $53 million to promote fringe, Trump-supporting, QAnon conspiracy-spouting, candidates in Republican primaries…
January 6, 2021, was not the culmination of Donald Trump’s narcissistic embrace of conspiracies. Instead, the day was a midpoint in Trumpism and the decline of…
The Republican party is ill, and the disease comes from deep within. Where are the elected wing-nuts coming from? The voters are choosing them, suggesting that…
President Joe Biden’s first year in office was not so good. Our collective 2021 was arguably very bad, indeed. Data, as well as political and…