CAN’T WISH IT AWAY
You have to ignore a lot of U.S. history to believe that if we somehow banish Trump to the sidelines, the violence spawned by the far right will go with him.
Jared Yates Sexton is a political analyst, co-host of The Muckrake Podcast, and author of American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People.
opinion
BROKEN MIRROR
The Fox News star broadcasts from Budapest this week, seemingly to sell his viewers on the Hungarian strongman’s depressingly familiar and deeply dangerous authoritarianism.
opinion
IT’S ALIVE! ALIVE!
Fox News now “sucks,” election-denying Trumpkins say. And so it’s a race to the bottom for other outlets to appeal to an audience hoping to further remove themselves from reality.
opinion
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE, AND IT HAS
America’s opposition to Nazism and fascism was only as good as the moment.
UNDYING
They’ve excused his winking at neo-Nazis and his support of an accused child molester. Is there anything—anything—that would make Trump’s die-hards leave his personality cult?
opinion
TIES THAT BIND
The diehard Trump supporters aren't being fooled. The Moore voters aren't pinching their noses. A large portion of Americans actually agree with the hateful things these men spew.
opinion
TIME BOMB
The scene at Charlottesville on Friday and Saturday did not come as a shock to anybody who had attended Trump rallies during the 2016 campaign.
CULT
Donald Trump has effectively replaced Fox News as the center of information for Republicans.