Before you say that what the GOP is doing won’t work or can’t end democracy in America, you may want to make a trip to Budapest By Thom Hartmann The GOP seems to have gone nuts. But, in reality, they’re following a plan. And it’s not even a new plan; it’s worked elsewhere. Seventeen…
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…
If you can stomach reading one more article about Trump and the craziness inside the White House in his last days, this should be it. The level of detail is remarkable. Jonathan Swan’s source must have been in the Oval Office when all this action took place. Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval…
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 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…