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The Question of the Time for each American:
“Have I committed myself to a political agenda that works against my own interest?” How we each respond to the answer to this question should be informed by the answer to this second question: “Is my best interest in opposition to the greater good?” It is impossible to make sense of everything that is going…
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Class Warfare Erupts Openly—Can you see it?
The Trump social media post depicting a former president and his wife as apes has, at long last, inspired even some of his supporters to object that he has gone too far. The post was reportedly removed after 12 hours because of the push-back; some Trump supporters are going so far as to express disgust…
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Rubicon
All this talk about “Crossing the Rubicon”…. The phrase gives a feeling of finality or something. But what does it actually mean? Well, when Julius Caesar was still just a war hero with glorious reports of daring conquests of the fearsome (and largely kingless Gauls), there was a region around the city of Rome inside…
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The GOP’s Long Push
It may be tempting to claim that Donald Trump has completely hijacked the Republican Party and turned it into a fascist, authoritarian party. After all, it used to be that the GOP was known as “the Party of National Security,” “the Law-and-Order Party,” and “the Party of Fiscal Responsibility.” Donald Trump has made a mockery…