By Alex Henderson April 27, 2021 (Read full article on Alternet) Paul Krugman, liberal economist and long-time columnist for the New York Times, has argued that Republicans have long since ceased to view Democrats as the loyal opposition — and that they don’t believe that Democrats even have “the right to govern.” Journalist Travis Waldron,…
It must not be allowed, like the Confederacy was, to live on with its own “lost cause” BS mythology By Thom Hartmann Reprinted with permission of the author President Joe Biden has largely given up on trying to negotiate anything with Republicans. There’s a good reason for this: the GOP is no longer a…
It’s about time the last one, Trump, is held accountable By Thom Hartmann (Reprinted from Medium.com, with permission from the author) Trump’s impeachment trial is coming up in the Senate, and already his allies are trying to throw up procedural roadblocks to exhaust the effort to hold him accountable. Should America “move beyond” Trump?…
There were two mobs behind the Capitol riot: One in MAGA hats, the other in expensive suits. Both did immense harm By DAVID DALEY The mob smashed windows then stormed into the U.S. Capitol. They brandished flags that supported Donald Trump and the confederacy, and messages that proclaimed “stop the steal” and “no more bullshit.” They…
By Max Cameron, University of British Columbia The storming of the United States Capitol may have failed to disrupt the certification of the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but it enacted a script favoured by coup-mongers around the world. All that was missing was the intervention of the armed forces. The inaction…