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…
Read MoreDeveloping Sometimes it is too hard to look an existential threat directly in the eye. Sometimes it is too hard to call out by its…
Read MoreNot long ago I wrote in my journal, “Today, Trump ate my consciousness.” I suspect this has been the experience of many people, on far…
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…
Removal of President Trump: Forget the 25th Amendment
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…
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…
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…
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) “The American catastrophe seems to get worse every day, but the events…
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…
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,…
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…