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As the Democrats fall over themselves praising Charlie Kirk, the Republicans laugh up their sleeves at the chumps on the other side of the aisle, bask in manufactured outrage at imaginary provocation by the left, and prepare to exploit Kirk’s … Continue reading →

is to be expected from the Republicans, but the fact that Establishment Democratic elected officials and pundits feel that they must praise a demagogic figure who preached hate and defamed anyone he didn’t like (no, this time we’re not talking … Continue reading →

Remember, red states, your economy will collapse without our blue state subsidies. If this is your Reichstag fire, prepare for it to consume Red America.

With a new jihad against foreigners who don’t talk the way he wants them to talk about Kirk. t’s happening. Where are the Democrats? Why can’t they think on their feet? Why was Sen. Murphy equating the routinely incendiary rhetoric … Continue reading →

The Democrats must not in any way accede to the Republicans’ lionization of Kirk. “We can condemn political violence and this hideous murder,” Christopher Cook writes at Common Dreams, “while also condemning Charlie Kirk for the rotten, vile hatred he … Continue reading →

Ben Meiselas reminds us that there was not a word from Trump of sympathy or concern–just using it as a pretext to attack Gov. Walz. An utterly depraved and treasonous response. His address last night was equally abhorrent. Oh, and … Continue reading →

The FBI has been pillaged by Trump & Patel, and the bumbling, feckless investigation that’s taken place is the result. A 22-year old gardening intern is head of domestic counter-terrorism. Elections have consequences.

Herr Trump, then stop taking leaves from his authoritarian playbook.

True to form, this president, who seemingly lives for the chance to sow division, hatred, and violence, blames “left-wing rhetoric” for Kirk’s murder. Kirk was, of course, himself as much a hate monger as Trump himself, so Trump’s reflective impulse … Continue reading →

As Mary Trump just pointed out, it is the Republicans who perpetually try to foment violence, in part by fanning the flames of paranoia that the right uses to justify its eliminationist ravings. This is exactly what the infernal Fox … Continue reading →