Corollaries to the Big Lie
Republicans and conservatives are rewriting history as it occurs and creating corollaries to the Big Lie. People like Lindsey Graham are calling for unity and healing after they split the country wide open by validating and repeating the lies of Donald Trump. Other...
The Retrumplican poster boy
Give those Republicans in the mountains credit; they sure know how to pick ‘em. Madison Cawthorn is making a spectacle of himself as he wheels into Congress packing a gun and shooting off his mouth. He succeeds Mark Meadows who became Trump’s chief of staff. Meadows...
The irony of Southern history goes national
In truth, civilizational defeat was intrinsic to the formation of America. Europeans did not "discover" terra incognita when they arrived on the shores of the western hemisphere in the late 15th century. Following first contact, three out of four Indigenous persons...
The conservative defense of the Big Lie
Donald Trump became the first president impeached twice. The vote in the House included ten Republicans, making it the most bipartisan impeachment in history. Several other Republicans who voted against impeachment disavowed the president and one said he might regret...
The false equivalency of BLM and the Capitol coup
Too many conservatives across social and traditional media are trying to compare the violence that happened in the wake of George Floyd’s death to the assault on the Capitol and democracy that took place last week. Some even try to claim that the riots last summer are...
Progress is happening in North Carolina’s cities and towns
The North Carolina General Assembly can seem like a stone wall standing in the way of any kind of progress in the state. Remarkably homogeneous and stubborn, the majority Republican caucus of the state legislature will not tolerate improvements in the social-welfare...
The lies they told–and maybe believed: What NC Republicans said about rejecting the Electoral College results
Make no mistake, there is an alternative reality to go with the alternative facts of MAGA world. While most of the country is appalled by the assault on the Capitol and democracy that killed four people including a Capitol police officer, the right-wing sees the...
PoliticsNC Book Club: Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton's reputation has waxed an waned for three decades, and now he finds himself in another slump. The #MeToo reckoning caught him in its morally urgent net, his policies on crime and welfare are widely seen as having worsened our problems of racial...
We need accountability before we can have unity
I’m not interested in uniting the country right now. I’m interested in defeating the forces of reaction that threaten our democracy. We have seen these people throughout our history and they are not open to compromise. They are destructive and authoritarian. They tore...
The Big Lie of voter fraud
The Big Lie is voter fraud. It’s the metaphorical Reichstag fire that Republicans have used to rally their troops and strip away voting rights in attempts to rig elections. And it’s the spark that led to the failed insurrection on Wednesday that left our Capitol...
There should be consequences
Yesterday should have been a celebration of our democracy and its tradition of a peaceful transfer of power. Instead, the President of the United States summoned a small group of his lunatic and intellectually challenged supporters to Washington and encouraged them to...
The time racists attempted a coup and it actually worked
It is common to chart the decline of American democracy by drawing parallels with the troubles that afflict the Third World. Coups, sometimes admittedly abetted by the U.S. government, have scarred the political development of countries from Iran to Indonesia, and...
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