How does the State respond to general unrest?

If Trump Wins & The GOP Gets Control Of Congress, Throw Separation Of Powers Out The Window Trump turned the RNC into a branch of his...

Yesterday, Philip Rotner wrote that the MAGA judge who managed to grab the stolen documents case, Aileen Cannon, and has been sabotaging...

If We Elect Trump Dictator We Never Have To Worry About A Messy Democracy Again Obviously though there’s no one-size-fits-all explanation...

Anne Applebaum has a good understanding of how authoritarian regimes have used disinformation to grab power. Yesterday she watched clips...

Authoritarianism Is Threatening To Swamp Democratic Principles Not part of Mitch McConnell’s endorsement of Señor Trumpanzee Wednesday,...

Hatred, Bigotry & Greed Are Much Easier Than Unconditional Love In the last post, we briefly reprised Adorno’s work on the authoritarian...

Media Attention Will Then Focus On Who His Running Mate Will Be Remember homophobic maniac Tulsi Gabbard? At one time she took a spin...

On Saturday night, after it was clear that there was no miracle coming in from the ballot count, Haley said: “I know 40 percent is not 50...

Jonathan Chait's Debilitating, Unhinged Hatred For Progressives At a Nazi rally in Munich on February 24, 1929 Hitler first introduced...

Trump-- Poisoning America With His Venom Trump has made it clear that if he manages to get back into the White House, he has revenge in...

And It Isn't Only About Low IQs Señor Trumpanzee at the neo-Nazi New York Young Republican Club, on Saturday, when the other GOP...

Don’t mix up Donald P. Moynihan with deceased New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who played footsie with Nixon and was...

The Threat To Our Country Is Ignorant Wing-Nuts, Not Just Trump Yesterday, Ruth Ben-Ghiat tweeted that a picture of the Capitol being...

The first I remember ever writing about Adam Kinzinger was when then-closet case Aaron Schock was signaling his heart was all aflutter in...

What Do Fascist Intellectuals Think About? Over the weekend, Jason Wilson explained a term popular among right-wing self-styled...

Future Historians, Writing About How America Discarded Democracy To Embrace Fascism, Will Have To Remember Names Like Kirsten Welker,...

More than most Republican politicians, DeSantis has made a name for himself by restricting and taking away people’s liberties and...

Want To Understand What “Chutzpah” Is? For as much as most of us are following any news out of Israel, this week it is probably about the...

Did anyone ever imagine that the MAGAts wouldn’t eventually be at each other’s throats. It’s who they are— what kind of hideous,...