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are a disaster for the American people. The fact that Trump perversely boasts about them as if they were a positive achievement is part of his Orwellian rhetorical jitsu, which the Democrats have refused to counter effectively. I say “refused” because no political party could remain as passive and inept as the Democrats have unless that was a deliberate choice. I’ve asked again and again, why do the Democrats enact regulations but then fail to explain and defend them to the American people? Why don’t they make explicit how harmful to Americans is Trump’s deregulation?

Now it’s Ilhan Omar.

are refusing to fund ICE, they need to start practicing the art of messaging, something that they customarily abjure, always to their peril, and to the nation’s.

As the Democrats in the Senate vote No, they must hold daily press briefings during the shutdown that may occur, hopefully led by senators who are more effective speakers than Leader Schumer.

They need to challenge the entire GOP’s Hitlerian hate narrative defaming immigrants, and repeat over and over again that the GOP neither knows nor cares that immigrants built America, that we are all, except of Native Americans, descended from immigrants.

They must continuously replay the footage of ICE murdering, assaulting, maiming innocent American citizens.

Primary them all.

Bondi goes on Fox Propaganda to shame her office with tacky, ad hominem insults lobbed at “failed journalist’ Don Lemon, and threatens to launch against him another one of her ludicrously inept harassment prosecutions directed at anyone who opposes Trump.

Lawrence O’Donnell predicted the other night that they will spend the rest of their lives insisting that without their counsel, Trump would have committed even more crimes and inflicted even more damage.

This time, the Democrats must not let them get away with it.

To avoid World War III, Europe better not opt for appeasement this time.

doddered over to the podium, brandished a paper prop entitled “Accomplishments,” fixed a glazed look at the TV cameras, and rambled and wandered for well over an hour today.

How in the world was the corporate media able to convince America that it was Biden’s, and not Trump’s cognitive decline that we needed to worry about?

Part of the reason was the Democrats’ silence.

Democratic silence = complicity; we must insist that it be recognized for what it is. When hey refuse to fight Republican abuse, they are partners in it.

in The New York Times’ account of the Metropolitan Opera’s current financial struggles about the fact that,unlike opera houses in every other country, the American government does not offer any meaningful support.

Yet there may be a possibility that their treasonous collusion with Trump’s take down of this country will finally diminish, Michael Tomasky writes in The New Republic. “I’m not expecting much out of these people,” he admits “They don’t care about anything, really, except their bottom line.” Nevertheless, “If Trump drives this country into a position where most of the world—save Russia, Hungary, Chile, El Salvador, and a handful of other right-wing dys-fantasy lands—wants to do business with China and the EU, corporate America and Wall Street will miraculously find their backbones.”