The June 8 Comey hearing was the latest opportunity for Republicans to show some minimal amount courage when it comes to dealing with Donald Trump. Here was an opportunity to really explore the issue of a hostile foreign power interfering with our election, and the idea that they may have had assistance from one of…
This Is Not Normal
I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Most are political or pseudo-political (The West Wing Weekly is fantastic for reminiscing about the Bartlet Administration). Like the overwhelming majority of sentient beings on the planet, the Trump Administration feels like a waking nightmare, each moment more frighteningly depressing than the last. Through all the…
Want To Win? Then Don’t Moderate The Protest Movement
We’re just over a month into Donald Trump’s presidency, and not a day goes by without coverage of protests. Big protests, yuge, luxurious protests, full of the most magnificent people protesting bigly, all doing an unbelievably great job being recognized by more and more people. Sure, the protests haven’t all been pretty, though the flagship…