I read this piece by Reverend Barber the other day and it helped me greatly:
FBI Director James Comey should resign or be removed, and then serious housecleaning must begin. Regardless of your political leanings, Comey interfered with an election for personal political purposes — not to get Trump elected, but to save his own ass ahead of leaks that he could not prevent…
For years, I’ve told my children that bullies cannot succeed without enablers — the people who look away, who titter like Billy Bush did in the face of something disgusting and wrong, because they lack the character themselves to stand up for what is right. It’s harder to stand up for what’s right when you…
I want you, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the GOP who think demanding an “apology” is the way to thread the needle between your support for Trump and your knowledge that he is a threat to the world, between placating your deplorable base and putting our democracy at risk, between…
Trump’s attacks on Alicia Machado are just like his attacks on the Khans were. They are a perfect distillation of his depravity. His treatment of them shows us exactly who and what he is — which is a person unfit for society, much less for the office of the presidency.
More truth from Charles Blow on the blinkered and selfish idiocy of people who care about racial justice voting third party or not voting at all. I wish he had also made the affirmative case for Clinton on issues of racial justice, rather than just cataloguing the myriad ways in which…
Josh Marshall of Talkingpointsmemo had another really insightful piece over the weekend, which I missed until today. As Bill Moyers pointed out in another excellent piece (arguing that the Presidential debates are a functional charade riven by…
Highly recommend this excellent piece from James Fallows. He looks at the ways in which past presidential and vice-presidential debates have been won or lost, and it’s often been not so much a question of substance as of the candidate fitting within — or confounding —…
We almost need a new language to address what is going on in this election. The words “gaslighting” and “projection” are correct, yet are inadequate to describe what Trump’s campaign has been doing: HRC delivers a masterful speech on a Thursday morning a couple of weeks ago making a documented…
