By Robert Reich Call me old-fashioned, but when the president of the United States encourages armed insurgents to breach the Capitol and threaten the physical safety of Congress, in order to remain in power, I call it an attempted coup. Last week’ rampage left five dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer who was…
After right-wing terrorists stormed the US Capitol, apparently intent on assassinating Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, members of Congress eventually returned to their chambers and the business of certifying the 2020 election results. Despite the harrowing experience of hiding for their lives from the Trump-incited attack, “two-thirds of House Republicans (139 members) favored rejecting at…
By Don Pelton I started listening to this latest video from the Lincoln Project (a group of long-time GOP consultants), which has been issuing a steady stream of blistering ads against Trump and his GOP enablers, but — not being very young — I was put off by the musical style and was about…
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By Tom Engelhardt From Tomdispatch.com Reprinted by permission of the author Yes, when he was running for president, he did indeed say: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Then he won — and this November 3rd (or thereafter), whether he…