From Professor Timothy Snyder’s latest piece in The New York Times Magazine: “Like historical fascist leaders, Trump has presented himself as the single source of truth. His use of the term “fake news” echoed the Nazi smear Lügenpresse (“lying press”); like the Nazis, he referred to reporters as “enemies of the people.” Like Adolf…
by Don Pelton The most urgent issue in American politics is the future of democracy, as Trump’s attempted coup, with his GOP enablers, might suggest to you. At this particular moment in history, the Republican Party is the greatest threat to our democracy, since it has perfected rule by the minority. As David Daley…
By Sylvia Taschka, Wayne State University Comparisons between the United States under Trump and Germany during the Hitler era are once again being made following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Even in the eyes of German history scholars like myself, who had earlier warned of the troubling nature of such…
by Don Pelton Congressman and Constitutional scholar Jamie Raskin loves the Constitution, and his fight to preserve it against the depredations of Trump and Trumpism is now amplified by his love for his adult son, Tommy, “a radiant light in this broken world,” who tragically lost his life to depression “on the last hellish…
It’s striking that while Trump never got around to working at the job, Biden — waiting to be sworn-in — is already hard at work.