“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Guest Post by Centrist McModerate These are tumultuous times in our two-party system. The side currently in charge is engaged in a nakedly authoritarian power grab that seeks to bend society to its will. Meanwhile, the side out of power proposes that the side […]
Move over, leftist college kids who’ve been beaten, arrested, and threatened with deportation. The New York Times is here to tell you that the real persecuted students are vocal conservatives whose schools decline to discipline them for douchey behavior. On Wednesday, the paper ran a non-story by reporter Jeremy Peters about the “plight” of Brown […]
We hear it from Democratic strategists and centrist pundits all the time. “Democrats need to have a big tent.” Typically, this means Democratic candidates should appeal to moderates and the seven remaining Republican voters who don’t support Donald Trump. And indeed, that was what Kamala Harris did in her abbreviated presidential run. She campaigned with Liz […]
The Trump era has taught and reinforced many lessons in politics, not the least of which is that members of Congress behave as though losing their seat is tantamount to dying. How else do you explain the bevy of congressional Republicans Who Know Better™ who nonetheless feel compelled to publicly support or at least humor […]
The Bulwark published a scoop on Wednesday that’s just the latest exhibition of cowardice by Democratic congressional “leadership.” Privately, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has reportedly discouraged Democratic lawmakers from making further trips to El Salvador to bring attention to the incarceration of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more than 200 others Trump deported there without […]
In case you were still under the impression that the Anti-Defamation League is a civil rights organization, let me direct your attention to some deranged comments its director made on Tuesday. Jonathan Greenblatt appeared on CNN, where he was asked about the Trump regime arresting and jailing international students for criticizing Israel. (I still can’t […]
In case it wasn’t clear that the mainstream media is ill-equipped to act as a bulwark against Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, look no further than Sunday’s travesty authored by Dana Bash. Bash interviewed Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who hit the Sunday shows to discuss his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia last week in El Salvador. […]
There’s a morally bankrupt kind of thinking that’s taken hold among some centrists and centrist Democrats regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man Trump disappeared to an El Salvador gulag without due process. Trump won in part on the issue of immigration, the thinking goes, and therefore Democrats must do everything possible to look tough on […]
Last month, the Trump administration arrested a sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore named Kilmar Abrego Garcia and deported him back to El Salvador, where he’s currently languishing in a gulag. According to his wife, his three children keep asking when he’s coming home. Abrego Garcia has no criminal record, and an immigration judge ruled in […]
It takes a special kind of solipsistic cretin to acknowledge the damage that the autocratic Trump is doing to the country before immediately giving him credit for not being an asshole to you personally for a very brief period of time. And yet that is what Bill Maher did after having dinner with Trump, Kid […]
Autocracy Manifest 