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Supporting Trump’s treachery continues even with detailed accounts of his seditious pursuit of power

Supporting Trump’s treachery continues even with detailed accounts of his seditious pursuit of power

Posted by | Jul 26, 2022

The committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious pursuit of power. Even now, Trump continues to push states to alter the outcomes of the 2020 election. The House of Representatives’ select committee investigating the January 6 attack has finished its hearings, at least for now. But Trump’s attempted coup continues. He has not stopped giving speeches to stir up angry mobs with his big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. He gave another fiery address on July 22 in Arizona, the day after the latest hearings on July 21. He is...

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January 6 hearings: The truth may not be enough to prove democracy is still a viable form of government

January 6 hearings: The truth may not be enough to prove democracy is still a viable form of government

Posted by | Jul 26, 2022

The July 21 public hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol brought to its logical conclusion the story of Trump’s attempt to overturn our democracy. After four years of destroying democratic norms and gathering power into his own hands, the former president tried to overturn the will of the voters. Trump was attacking the fundamental concept on which this nation rests: that we have a right to consent to the government under which we live. Far from rejecting the idea of minority rule after seeing where it led, Republican Party...

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An apology to Millennials for failing to stop the Reagan Revolution that ruined America’s middle-class

An apology to Millennials for failing to stop the Reagan Revolution that ruined America’s middle-class

Posted by | Jul 21, 2022

Dear millennials: back in the 1980s a lot of us worked like hell to try to stop the Reagan revolution. We failed. This may be our last chance to save American democracy and the American middle-class. When my boomer generation was the same average age as your millennial generation is today, back in 1990, our generation held 21.3% of the nation’s wealth. Louise and I shared in that wealth; although we were still in our 30s, in 1990 we owned a profitable small business (our fourth) and a nice home in suburban Atlanta. That was, in fact, the “American...

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Symptoms of a rigged system: Why Democrats cannot defeat Trumpism without an agenda of radical reform

Symptoms of a rigged system: Why Democrats cannot defeat Trumpism without an agenda of radical reform

Posted by | Jul 21, 2022

Much of today’s Republican party is treacherous and treasonous. So why are Democrats facing midterm elections that, according to most political observers, they are likely to lose? Having been a loyal Democrat for some 70 years, including a stint as a cabinet secretary, it pains me to say this: the Democratic party has lost its way. Some commentators think Democrats have moved too far to the left – too far from the so-called “center.” This is utter rubbish. Where has the center between democracy and authoritarianism, and why would Democrats want to be there? Others think Biden has not...

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The original Cancel Culture: How Republicans have been hard at work nullifying America for decades

The original Cancel Culture: How Republicans have been hard at work nullifying America for decades

Posted by | Jul 20, 2022

Republicans are all about canceling things: you could call it GOP Cancel Culture. Most recently, for example, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to cancel the First Amendment, requiring university teachers and students to register their political perspectives with the state. He has, in his rush to run for president in 2024, achieved a pinnacle of success, a victory of sorts, within the newest iteration of Republican Cancel Culture. As Max Boot documented in a brilliant op-ed in the Washington Post, DeSantis has cancelled or tried to cancel: Private business’ and local governments’ ability to protect people with mask or...

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Twenty years of dirty tricks: How Florida in 2000 became Roger Stone’s version 1.0 of “Stop the Steal”

Twenty years of dirty tricks: How Florida in 2000 became Roger Stone’s version 1.0 of “Stop the Steal”

Posted by | Jul 18, 2022

As the January 6th Committee continues to unpeel layers of criminality and conspiracy, it is important to note that the Stone/Bannon/Trump “Stop The Steal” scheme did not originate in 2020. It was, in fact, 20 years in the making. Roger Stone, Trump’s dirty trickster who was sentenced to 40 months in prison before Trump pardoned him, rolled out version 1.0 in Florida in 2000, helping the George W. Bush campaign stop a Florida Supreme Court-mandated statewide recount that would have handed the election to Al Gore. After Stone’s successful efforts to shut down the Miami-Dade County recount with the...

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