The line from Helms to Trump

The line from Helms to Trump

Last night, Liz Cheney lost her primary to Trump-backed Republican Harriet Hageman. Hageman is typical of a lot of Republicans. She supported Cheney for years and, according the Washington Post, she “opposed Trump, calling him ‘racist and xenophobic’” in 2016. Now,...
Exporting extremism

Exporting extremism

North Carolina may be the nation’s largest exporter of right-wing nut jobs to Washington. Yesterday, a guy from Grover drove to DC claiming to have a bomb in his truck and threatened to detonate it unless Biden resigned. Back in 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury...
State of transitions

State of transitions

This weekend, a Republican asked why I believed pro-segregationist Democrats became Republicans in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. Well, because it’s true. I’m not just a student of history, I’m a product of a rural North Carolina county that is half-Black and...
To rule, not govern

To rule, not govern

In one of the best tweets I’ve seen recently, former Eric Holder speechwriter Jake Maccoby said, “The GOP got called out by baseball, NASCAR and the NFL and they think Dems are out of touch.” Republicans are a party of bullies who see themselves as a party of...

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