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The night the old man handed them their asses

By John Stoehr / February 8, 2023 /

We’ll talk about Bidenism the way we talked about Reaganism.

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Tonight, the president is going to lie to us

By John Stoehr / February 7, 2023 /

That should be the takeaway, but it won’t be.

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Trump’s ‘heresy’ was giving away the Republican Party’s game

By John Stoehr / December 6, 2022 /

He said the Constitution should be terminated, putting the lie to the idea that the founding document stands above democratic politics.

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If the Congress is unchanged by the midterms, it will signal the return of an old norm

By John Stoehr / August 26, 2022 /

In the 20th century, six midterms flipped the Congress.

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The Inflation Reduction Act is what a democracy can achieve when fascists are prevented from stabbing it in the back

By John Stoehr / August 17, 2022 /

Thank Mitch McConnell for proof of concept.

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The Republican Party’s anti-tax rhetoric is pro-sedition

By John Stoehr / August 5, 2022 /

Gingrich introduced it. Trump perfected it. Cruz repeats it.

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The Schumer-Manchin bill is a ‘conservative’ BFD

By John Stoehr / July 29, 2022 /

Minimizing suffering, maximizing opportunity.

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When Democratic leaders and white liberals scapegoat the NRA

By John Stoehr / June 2, 2022 /

The convenient fictions constituting our political reality.

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When rightwing politics is made respectable, rightwingers kill

By John Stoehr / May 17, 2022 /

Case in point is the Buffalo massacre.

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Despair is the mind killer

By John Stoehr / May 2, 2022 /

Are there better conditions for the party of autocracy?

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