There are at least two fascist double agents within the Democratic Party. I did just use the f-word, so let me explain why I’m making such a bold declaration. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema both oppose the Freedom to Vote Act. OK, that might be completely fine. Let’s take a look at what is in…

I spend a lot of time here criticizing Democrats, but as one of the two parties that control US politics, I hope they will take some advice on how to move forward given the circumstances we find ourselves in. The following are steps that Democrats can take to stop our country from sliding into fascism…

There’s an article in Politico by John F. Harris claiming that our new American civil war is based on nothing except two tribes of people deciding that they hate each other. He claims that all other major conflicts in US history were based on a substantive issue, but not this one. Clearly, this man has…

In November of 2020, a freelance journalist named Derek Robertson predicted that Joe Biden’s ongoing return to “normalcy” would put an end to the culture-war rhetoric on the far right. That was pretty dumb, and he’s written a lengthy description of all the ways he was wrong. Robertson might not be the only person who…

Politicians and the press keep using the word “progressive” but they never really define it, and given the widely varying political positions of people who are labeled progressive, the word has become somewhat meaningless. Let’s look at three different apparent meanings of “progressive” and where they fall on the American political spectrum (which skews right)…

In the wake of the 2016 election, there were a lot of self-described reasonable liberals claiming that describing Trump as a fascist was destructive hyperbole. While it is certainly a bad idea to just call everyone you don’t like a fascist, it seemed like in this case, people were using a lot of overly specific…