John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.
A norm preventing you from fighting fascist terrorism is no norm at all.
They may sound reasonable, but be aware their goal is dominance.
Americans are starved for the truth.
Whenever there’s a massacre, we heard various and sundry uses of “hate.” Veronica Escobar, who represents El Paso, said there’s a “hate epidemic.” “In this country, we have a gun violence epidemic but we also have a hate epidemic. Until we deal with that hate and until we confront the weak gun laws that we…
He spent a week maligning cities. Then came massacres in El Paso and Dayton.
One of the parties is in true disarray. It’s not the Democrats.
The last thing we should do is pretend it’s smart.
Searching for a motive for malice distracts us from the malice itself.
Now’s your chance to tell everyone what you think. Key topics: policies, ideology, the party, personality, and media framing. Looking forward to your thoughts! —JS
As I write this, I’m watching the second round of the Democratic presidential debates, and my mind is drifting to a video I watched this morning in which Hillary Clinton said fascism is happening. HRC: The demagoguery, the appeal to the crowd, the very clever use of symbols, the intimidation, verbal and physical—this is a…