Forget bipartisanship. The task before us is to extirpate the fascist threat, and to defeat all fascists.
Developing Sometimes it is too hard to look an existential threat directly in the eye. Sometimes it is too hard to call out by its…
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The Democratic base must push back on impeachment trial against weak-kneed Democratic Senators
Contingency planning for military-style commando action to arrest Trump–Part One
Nashville blast: Attack on our communications infrastructure; potential relation to Trump’s attempted coup
Imagine: Hitler in the White House–Scheming to hold on to power
Veterans’ Day, 2020: REPRISE–“Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?”
Imagine: Adolf Hitler in the White House
Trump issues veiled call for the assassination of Joe Biden
Will America elect a fascist President?
“Trump has blocked out the sun.” (Updated)
Not long ago I wrote in my journal, “Today, Trump ate my consciousness.” I suspect this has been the experience of many people, on far…
REPRISE: Trump, the impeachment trial, and hope for the future
And yet, we are oppressed by one nightmarish idea: if a dictatorship in Hitler’s style should ever rise, in America, all hope would be lost…
To shut down TV propaganda, re-establish FCC licensing requirement
Removal of President Trump: Forget the 25th Amendment
Growing alarm over ongoing Trump coup
What the nation’s leading columnists, and others, have been thinking for many months, if not years, is now being said out loud. As the bullet…
Trump’s blatant assaults on democracy continue (Updated)
Updated September 15, 2020 The American people have been pummeled by Donald Trump’s outrages, and lethal incompetence, for almost four years. Now it is obvious…
Should Biden Debate Trump?
For background, see “Biden’s Challenge: How do you campaign against a fascist liar?” The Trenchant Observer, August 29, 2020. Should Biden debate Trump? It would…
Biden’s Challenge: How do you campaign against a lying, neofascist cult leader?
On lies and Truth, see 1) Margaret Sullivan, “Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential; It’s also increasingly fruitless,” Washington Post, August 29, 2020 (7:00…
Trump’s creeping coup d’état: Democrats must get ready to impeach again (Part I)
Trump’s creeping coup d’état: Democrats must get ready to impeach again (Part I) “The American catastrophe seems to get worse every day, but the events…
Trump uses Nazi symbol to seek neo-Nazi support
In reporting on events, the Observer draws on factual evidence primarily, but tries not to fall into the trap of thinking he has to prove…
Rehearsal for a coup d’état? Violence in American cities and “the chaos president”
Update: See Ryan O’Connell, “Come November, a U.S. coup d’etat? Could Donald Trump call out the U.S. Army again, after losing the November election?. Salon,…
In coronavirus pandemic, China defies international law in the South China Sea–Part I
ENGLISH AND FRENCH Three recent articles describe China’s recent actions in the South China Sea, which appear to violate international law and an authoritative and…