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Mike Pence Isn’t a ‘Muscular Christian’
Let’s not give that way of thinking more credit than it deserves.
Trump’s ‘Ersatz Phallic Exercise’
Economic collapse won’t keep him from delivering to his base.
Biden Doesn’t Need a Message to Win
Compared to Trump’s occultism, he just needs to make sense.
‘Light and Heat,’ the Politics of the Occult
It doesn’t make any sense, because it’s not supposed to.
Mitch McConnell’s Multiverse of Betrayal
America owes blue states for fighting COVID-19. He’d repay them with bankruptcy.
Mitch McConnell’s animus
The Senate majority leader appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show today to state that his Senate conference would not debate what he called a “blue-state bailout.” Here’s the context: Basically, Mitch McConnell knows the pandemic has the potential to weaken his enemies in cities and blue states to the point of insolvency, resulting in mass…
The Common Good vs. Freedom-Hoarders
A majority has already made their choice. The right one.
Trump Is Stealing Your Freedom
Conservatives used to oppose totalitarianism. Not anymore.
Trump’s Armed, and Infectious, Insurgents
“Patriotic protest” as moral equivalent of a suicide bombing.
Are Dead People the Cost of GOP Politics?
The petty bourgeoisie will never recognize Trump’s betrayal.