Biden’s failed approach to defending American democracy
See, Ross Douthat, “What Is Joe Biden Thinking?”, New York Times, January 15, 2022. Ross Douthat has done an excellent job in summing up the…
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Merrick Garland should indict Trump today. If he doesn’t, Democrats should impeach Garland tomorrow.
Three urgent actions needed to save American democracy
Democrats should impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland–UPDATED December 24, 2021
Should Trump be indicted?
The dog days of August and the Olympic Games: Time to act on Trump and the Republican fascist threat
The indictment of Trump: The Democratic wall of silence begins to break
The U.S. doesn’t need investigations or commissions. It needs prosecutions.
Liz Cheney and the Republican “Gleichschaltung”
Living offline for a year; and the author’s Twitter experience
Aaron Rosenberg lived offline for a year, trying to understand what it was like in order to help him understand the subject of his academic research.
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I myself experienced some of the extraordinary pull of Twitter while following in extremely close fashion political developments related to Donald Trump’s attempts to hang on to power after losing the election on November 3, 2021.
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Aaron Rosenberg’s experience is instructive. When thinking about my Twitter experience, I recall reading somewhere that the average life of a tweet is about 15 minutes.
Democrats blow huge opportunity at impeachment trial, losing 57-43. But work must continue to tear down Trump’s propaganda wall.
The great political challenge we all now face is to find a way to dismantle Trump’s propaganda bubble and alternative universe, so that rational people, no longer fearful of fascist mobs and voters, can resume a politics of reason.
Yet let us not lose sight of the great success of the House Impeachment Managers in presenting a compelling case, Let us also not lose sight of the fascist challenge that America faces, and the hard work that remains to be done to overcome it.
AOC’s Instagram account of the trauma she experienced on January 6
Whatever you think of AOC, or have heard, imagine that she is your sister, or your daughter, or your granddaughter, and make the time to listen to her story of the trauma she experienced on January 6, as if she were your sister, or daughter, or granddaughter.
Three immediate steps to stop threats of assassination and other acts of political terror
We have witnessed in the last few months numerous acts of political terror, from threats to harm election officials, legislators and their families to the…
Pelosi and the House Democratic Caucus
From reports of the Democratic caucus conference call today, Nancy Pelosi wants to wait until there is enough support in the country to move forward…