I’m a political independent. But I don’t want to lose my health care. I don’t want the planet to suffer more than it already has because of global warming. I don’t want to see more victims of police brutality, because I can put myself in the shoes of those whose lives are put at risk. And I don’t want armed militias roaming the streets when I go out for dinner and a movie.
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It’s the height of irony that Donald Trump, who has railed against the evils of “identity politics,” has mastered it so completely. He’s tapped into fear among certain segments of the population that they’re losing their identity as the dominant force in these United States.
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Comparisons of Republicans to Nazis have been popular in some quarters, and I’m going to make one here. But it’s not a moral comparison, it’s a tactical one. Republicans are doing the same thing Hitler did when he took over one European state after another — after pledging not to — and British leader Neville Chamberlain let him do it. Instead of satisfying him, it made him more aggressive.
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The media continue to cover the 2020 election as though it’s typical. Voters continue to assume it is. We continue to blithely believe that “the system will work” the way it always has. This is more than just naïve. It’s an exercise wishful thinking that crosses the line into denial. These five factors virtually guarantee a constitutional crisis.
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In Trump’s alternate reality, the world’s most disastrous COVID response has, somehow, been the best. The math there is positively Orwellian. Instead of asserting that 2 + 2 = 5, he maintains that the millions of COVID cases and 200,000 deaths add up to success.
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Donald Trump isn’t a tough-guy action hero like Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s not even Ronald Reagan. He’s a pathetic, craven coward, cringing and trembling in his dead father’s shadow, desperate to avoid the truth for one simple reason: It will force him to face his own failure.
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