Link Roundup, 6/15/2019
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
Trump Trade Theater
One more time, Trump has manufactured a crisis then secured victory by arbitrarily declaring that crisis over. This Great Wall of Bullshit approach to international relations has been remarkably successful so far, at least politically.
The Long View
Look closely at our dilemma, and you see not decline, but leadership. We are being buffeted by the first waves of a storm spreading around the world. We’re not worst, but merely first.
Only One Thing is Happening
There’s really only one political issue that matters right now. Our most pressing national security issue is our President’s hidden financial relationships. How much money is our President earning from our enemies? How many other Republicans are implicated in his financial compromises? Until we have the answers to these questions, …
A Republican Abortion Apocalypse Awaits
Republicans are the about to be the dog that caught the car.
Great Patriot Farmers
How does Trump plan to maintain his support among the Republican farmers he’s destroying? Socialism, of course.
How Our Second Civil War Begins
Nowhere else in the free world is abortion an issue of such contention, because nowhere in the free world is a property right in other human beings so deeply embedded in the national soul. The tension between the truths we hold self-evident and the realities we’ve created on the ground will probably not be peacefully resolved.
Link Roundup, 5/9/2019
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
The Confederate Party of Texas
Republicans like to harp on the role Democrats played down through history in defending slavery, imposing Jim Crow, battling the Civil Rights movement, and lionizing the Confederacy. It’s a complicated parlor trick, a miracle of political gaslighting, since the many of the same people who played those roles in the …
Contempt of Congress
Conservatives who winked at this project to discredit our institutions will deeply regret their complicity.