Reading Time: 3 minutes The Republican Party has a long history of opposition to Russia. They were the leaders in Cold War rhetoric, deploring both the communism and atheism of the Soviet regime. In the early 1950s, The Red Scare, promoted by right-wing Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, warned the American people that communism was creeping into our government. He […]
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Republicans building an ‘army’ to fight alleged voter fraud
Reading Time: 2 minutes In an attempt to combat alleged voter fraud, the Republican Party plans to engage in voter fraud with a twist. Politico reported on this plan in early June, in which it stated there are multiple strategy plans to overturn votes in Michigan Democratic precincts. This plan includes installing trained recruits as poll workers as well […]
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Ohio GOP primary devolves into a winner-take-all shooting competition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Columbus, Ohio – This GOP primary in Ohio was supposed to be a cordial match between two seasoned politicians, but it is now centered around a winner take all shooting competition. Ohio senator Rob Portman is retiring. Senator Portman rose up in the ranks of the Republican party back in the time when people were […]
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And now Florida. Losing and legally challenging elections is the new norm
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump has now forged a new path for American democracy, one that is distinctly un-democratic, and rather similar to a child throwing their toys out of the pram. It now appears almost required behavior that, upon losing an election as a GOP candidate, one must challenge the legality of the lost election. For Trump, he […]
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WWRD – What Would Republicans Do?
Reading Time: 2 minutes American politics is devolving into a cesspit of polarisation, and it’s one side that is making it happen. As has been said here before by many of you readers, only one side appears to be interested in actually governing, in actually getting things done. Trump reigned for a whole term and succeeded in unfairly stacking […]
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The GOP and US Right Continue to Make Me Angry
Reading Time: 4 minutes This may well be counter-productive, but what the hell. I feel ranty. I’ve got to the point in my analysis of US politics that I now think that no one on the right can be a morally good person. I talked about this a little in my piece “Religion, Psychology & Morality: Most People Aren’t […]
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Culture Wars as a Cynical Strategy in the Face of a Lack of Economic and Social Policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been arguing elsewhere with a good friend about identity politics and culture wars. I have written before about the culture wars narrative, in which cancel culture features so heavily. This discussion went something like this [excuse typos and grammar as lifted from Facebook and Messenger]: JP: Ok, business as usual here. This government […]
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The GOP Sustained Assault on Democracy
Reading Time: 11 minutes There are some really terrible moves being made by the GOP at all levels of politics in the US. This has arguably been going on for decades, but most pointedly so since Trump’s election in 2016. There is a very good case to suggest that the GOP is following the Viktor Orban playbook in Hungary. […]
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The Big Lie Lives on: Cheney Is Ousted for Telling the Truth
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am no fan of Liz Cheney – she is a hardcore conservative. Conservative voters should love her. Unfortunately, she’s also a fan, recently, of…truth. And conservative voters appear to have become, in the main, a cult. A cult of personality. Of Trump. And now, because she refused to commit to the Big Lie, in […]
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Cancel Culture: Some Stimulation for Debate
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cancel culture is coming up in debate in the threads here an awful lot, and I really do think that some people have been sucked in by the perpetual narrative from the right that this is a leftist problem. If we look at the history of the phenomenon, we can see it wind its way […]