Right after the 2016 election, conventional wisdom dictated that the Democratic Party should kick all those pesky minority groups and their "identity politics" to the curb and chase after the (white) "working class" vote that allegedly won the election for Donald Trump. After ...read more
After learning of Steve Bannon's hostile (yet accurate) comments about both the infamous Trump Tower meeting and the ridiculous palace intrigue of the Trump White House, Donald Trump did was he always does: Threw a public temper tantrum and attacked Bannon.In a blistering ...read more
Richard Cohen, Iraq War booster and all around racist weasel, has a dire warning for America: Don't impeach Trump or his supporters will be super duper extra angry.I wish I was kidding.How would Trump’s hardcore supporters react to the removal of their president for a high crime ...read more
Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol, Charlie Sykes, Jeff Flake, some guy named Julius Krein, and an ever growing list of staunch conservatives are setting the media's heart aflutter by bashing the ideological train-wreck the conservative movement has become.It's weird, though, because ...read more
The Banter Long Read: What does abuse of power look like? Would we recognize it when the government uses its power to chill political dissent?To continue reading this MEMBERS ONLY article, please go here. Your support directly goes to the writers at the Banter and keeps us 100% ...read more
On Monday, Paul Krugman took note of a recurring theme in Trump's presidency:Nothing the president says is wrong, whether it’s his false claim that he won the popular vote or his assertion that the historically low murder rate is at a record high. No error is ever admitted. And ...read more
We already knew the conservative movement was in a lot of trouble but we're starting to get a clear picture of just how broken it is. Even before the Congressional Budget Office scored the Republican atrocity masquerading as a "healthcare" bill, the Trump administration was ...read more
During a meeting with manufacturing CEOs, Trump took a minute from pretending he was going to replace the millions of jobs lost to automation to brag about his recent series of sadistic immigration raids:First, if Trump's goons were actually rounding up large amounts of "gang ...read more
The American Prospect's "Blustering Toward Armageddon" is a disturbing examination of how Donald Trump's arrogance and apelike need for dominance will spell disaster for global stability:Call it belligerent deterrence: If only we build intimidating military capabilities (“second ...read more
Charlie Sheen has deeply offended Trumpsters by calling for Donald Trump to be the next celebrity to shed his mortal coil:This has sent the right into a frenzy with people calling for Sheen to be arrested or killed. Others settled for calling him a "useless cockroach" and "a ...read more
Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio introduced a bill on Thursday to help President-elect Donald Trump fulfill one of his campaign promises: His pledge to "drain the swamp." Throughout Trump's campaign he said that draining the swamp would be a top priority for his administration if he ...read more
Twitter has become Donald's weapon of mass distraction. He regularly throws bombs to get people in a foaming rage while he quietly builds an administration that will devastate the working class, finish dismantling the middle class and make billions (if not trillions) in profit ...read more