John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. Find him @editorialboard.bsky.social .
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…
Don’t stop speaking the plain truth about this “Russian asset.”
I sparked a teeny-tiny debate Monday. The subject of yesterday’s Editorial Board was nationalism. I made the case that the president, contrary to popular opinion, actually hates nationalism. Nationalism, I said, is about equality. Donald Trump hates equality. Ergo, he hates nationalism. I was being a bit cheeky. Too cheeky? The president is of course…
In the process, he hates America, too.
Note: Please do your part. Support the Editorial Board. It costs less than Starbucks every day! —— I felt uneasy after writing a few weeks ago that the Republican Party wants to kill you. That’s a pretty shocking thing to say, and I thought I might have gone too far. But then something happened. The…