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Living in a Land of Imagination
Imagination builds fake realities. In politics, stories are repeated until belief replaces truth, and facts become irrelevant. What starts as make-believe turns into gospel, and people fighting to defend things that were never real.
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This Has Always Been Trump’s Character
The attempts to memory-hole Donald Trump's past are a fool's errand. A jury has found him liable for sexual abuse. Dozens of women have accused him. His predatory behavior and contempt for women have been a core, public part of his brand for forty years.
The Strange Afterlife of P.J. O'Rourke
That P.J. O'Rourke quote about liberalism is making the rounds again on social media. It’s a perfect example of how the modern right uses the ghosts of its intellectual past to fuel a movement that has abandoned intellect entirely.
The Tariff Shell Game
The modern GOP's embrace of tariffs is both a cynical shell game played with language, and bad economics. Let's call their 'tariffs' what they actually are. They are an import tax that is passed on to consumers.
The Echoes of Nativism: America's Anti-Immigrant Hysteria is a Rerun
The rhetoric used against immigrants today is that they are diseased, criminal, and unable to assimilate. It's not new. It's a direct echo of the nativist playbook from a century ago. This is a deliberate revival of our worst instincts.